Grass is green; sky is blue
what’s not to get??!!?
While Vicente El Zorro Fox calls us all raaaacist and, aided by his new bestest friends the ACLU, threatens to sue US if any “miiigrants” of his are stopped at our border, things are a leedle differante in ol’ MeHeeCo Meh-ee-KKKo.
Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies “xenophobic,” ... Foreign-born Mexicans can’t hold seats in either house of the congress. They’re also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. And Mexico’s Constitution reserves almost all federal posts, and any position in the military and merchant marine, for “native-born Mexicans.” ...Baja California still requires candidates for the state legislature to prove both their parents were native born.
...Speaking of the hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who enter Mexico each year, chauffeur Arnulfo Hernandez, 57, said: “The ones who want to reach the United States, we should send them up there. But the ones who want to stay here, it’s usually for bad reasons, because they want to steal or do drugs.”
...The foreign-born make up just 0.5 percent of Mexico’s 105 million people, compared with about 13 percent in the United States, which has a total population of 299 million. Mexico grants citizenship to about 3,000 people a year, compared to the U.S. average of almost a half million.
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[so why aren’t those illegal aliens from the Middle East counted? Or are alla those pryer rugs from Mexican Moslems?]
Roughly 10 percent of Mexico’s population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15 percent of Mexico’s labor force is working in the United States. One in every 7 Mexican workers migrates to the United States.
“There is no scenario outside of catastrophic attack on the United States that would make immigration stop,” said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
...Last year, Mexico received a record $20 billion in remittances from migrant workers. That is equal to Mexico’s 2004 income from oil exports. ...The money Mexican migrants send home almost equals the U.S. foreign aid budget for the entire world...
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