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In the discussion thread: ‘There Is Not Enough Work’: Nearly Half of Mexicans Now Officially Poor [View all]

Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:31 AM

earthside (4,635 posts)

14. Think of the southern border as a picket line.

Would you cross a picket line to take a union job from a striking worker?

In effect that is what is happening when folks illegally cross the U.S.-Mexican border to get a job in this country.

There is no doubt about it ... as long as the oligarchs in Mexico can export the more ambitious unemployed population to us, then they are safe from a real change in government.

It happened in the last Mexican election for president when Andrés Manuel López Obrador was cheated out of office.

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15 replies	Author	Time	Post
‘There Is Not Enough Work’: Nearly Half of Mexicans Now Officially Poor [View all]	xchrom	Feb 2012	OP
If the oligarchs have their way, we're right behind them	CanonRay	Feb 2012	#1
It is no wonder they come here looking for a better life.	Snake Alchemist	Feb 2012	#2
takes money to get there?	xchrom	Feb 2012	#3
I doubt it would take much.	Snake Alchemist	Feb 2012	#4
Because there are lots of Hispanic communities on the Canadian border with the US...	Spider Jerusalem	Feb 2012	#5
Um, hello from Michigan (a state on the border with Canada with a significant migrant pop.)	Romulox	Feb 2012	#7
Sure, but that's the US side of the border, no?	Spider Jerusalem	Feb 2012	#8
LOL. Well played!	Romulox	Feb 2012	#13
Seems like it would be worth the effort to create that on the Nothern border of the US.	Snake Alchemist	Feb 2012	#11
As long as the US continues importing Mexico's poverty, nothing has to change. nt	Romulox	Feb 2012	#6
Think of the southern border as a picket line.	earthside	Feb 2012	#14
And NAFTA was going to improve the lot of the average Mexican, or	Lydia Leftcoast	Feb 2012	#9
Those are sad statistics. I do think that there is a question	Skidmore	Feb 2012	#10
NAFTA Is Starving Mexico	polly7	Feb 2012	#12
Around the globe wealth is being transferred to the wealthy. We are looking at a world wide oligarch	rhett o rick	Feb 2012	#15

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