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Immigration: Something I have been wondering...

Swaye
Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
edited July 2014 in Tug Tavern
I have often wondered how so many Mexicans coming to our country affects Mexico. Does anyone know? It would seem like you wouldn't want your labor force migrating to another country by the tens of thousands, but I lived in Texas for years and never saw any Mexican border patrol trying to do anything about them leaving. Does Mexico want them to leave? If so (or not), how will this affect them in the long term. I assume Mexico has a very high birth rate, so perhaps they have all the unskilled labor they need. I thought someone linked something showing Mexico has a surprisingly good economy (or at least better than I expected).

Anyway, I just wonder what Mexico thinks about millions of their people leaving. Thoughts? Facts? Bueller?
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    Question. Why is it that Beavis is fiddling with his wiener 15 times a day for 3 months? Funk that.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    It's a win for the Mexican gúbementé. The economy is underachieving and under-utilized. They can an easy out, if not a systemic fix, by end vast numbers of poor people, who'd otherwise be using Mexican resources, out of the country. At the same time, Mexicans send back home billions annually.

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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,468
    edited July 2014
    Apparently the Mexican government publishes a guide for people leaving, so I'd say immigrants leave with their country's blessing.

    http://www.banderasnews.com/0506/nr-guia01.htm

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    INTRODUCTION

    Dear Countryman:

    This guide is meant to give you some practical advice that could be useful if you have made the difficult decision to seek new labor opportunities outside your country.

    The safe way to enter another country is to obtain your passport from the Mexican foreign ministry, and a visa from the embassy or consulate of the country to which you wish to travel.

    Still, in practice we see many cases of Mexicans who try to cross the northern border without the necessary documents, traveling through dangerous terrain, which includes deserts and rivers with strong and sometimes invisible currents.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    AZDuck said:

    Apparently the Mexican government publishes a guide for people leaving, so I'd say immigrants leave with their country's blessing.

    http://www.banderasnews.com/0506/nr-guia01.htm

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    INTRODUCTION

    Dear Countryman:

    This guide is meant to give you some practical advice that could be useful if you have made the difficult decision to seek new labor opportunities outside your country.

    The safe way to enter another country is to obtain your passport from the Mexican foreign ministry, and a visa from the embassy or consulate of the country to which you wish to travel.

    Still, in practice we see many cases of Mexicans who try to cross the northern border without the necessary documents, traveling through dangerous terrain, which includes deserts and rivers with strong and sometimes invisible currents.
    Holy fuckall. Thanks. Guess that answers that. So, from a polical/economic perspective, Mexico seems to be fucking us. Nice.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    Who would have thought that deeply insightful knowledge canbe gained from HH. And Beavis and Butthead. What a great day to be a 1%er.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    I'm hearing that Central Americans are dominating the current wave of immigration, rather than Mexicans. But that's just what I'm hearing.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,468
    Well... they aren't fucking us IMO as we are each using the situation for mutual advantage. Mexico gets to use us as a safety valve for their internal social problems, we get cheap labor. I've been of the belief for a long time that if the US wanted to get serious about illegal aliens we could by going after the employers - but the fact is that the cheap labor is very good for many sectors of our economy: farming, meat packing and construction come to mind.

    Of course, the second and third order effects are the demographic changes and the Hispanicization of the Southwest.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    Who would have thought that deeply insightful knowledge canbe gained from HH. And Beavis and Butthead. What a great day to be a 1%er.

    I stand with our President and the #99percent

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