US renting Mexican Slaves

Why does Mexico care how we treat Mexican illegal immigrants? An easy answer, it is about money.

Calderón coupled his criticisms with several broad-ranging initiatives to better the lives of Mexicans in the United States, who are an important constituency in Mexican politics.

The government estimates that there are 11 million Mexicans in the United States, about 6 million of them illegally. It calculates that they sent back to Mexico more than $23 billion in remittances to help support their families last year.

“Remittances from the United States are a major source of income for our country, at present the second largest after oil exports,” said Maria Rosa Márquez Cabrera, the secretary of rural development. (emphases added)

It isn’t about treating them fair. The current topic around Illegal Immigrants is about whether they should be issued driver’s licenses. The US can easily turn to Mexico to find out what would be fair concerning this topic.

MEXICO CITY — The question of whether to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants has ignited a national debate in the United States.

Yet in Mexico, the biggest source of immigrants to the USA, there's no debate: If you're not in the country legally, you can't get a driver's license.

That is right Mexican government officials demand we take their poor and at times their criminals so they can send money back to support the Mexican economy. They say we, the US, are not being fair if we don’t let their exported get driver’s licenses, vote and work. The say we don’t have a right to be mad about all of it. If they are concerned about how the US treats their people, there is one simple thing they can do, become a country people want to live in.

With 23 billion dollars a year, does anyone think Mexico has any interest is stopping the exportation of their poor and unwanted? The US would be better off sending that 23 billion dollars a year direct or organizing things so the exported poor aren't vicimized by their own government.

Church And State Trackback