Leftist may win Mexico presidency;

[MoonRiver]

* adm. sweats. :D

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Uneasy at election victories by leftists in Latin America, the United States may soon feel the region's wave of change lapping up against its southern border if a former indigenous welfare officer wins Mexico's presidential election on July 2.
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"At stake is the future course of America's influential southern neighbor at a time when Mexico and the U.S. wrangle over border security and immigration issues, and as other Latin American nations turn to left-leaning leaders," U.S. opinion pollster John Zogby said.

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-06-20T210852Z_01_N19255571_RTRIDST_0_MEXICO-ELECTION-USA-PICTURE.XML

[Virginia Dare]

1. This has to have the greedy corporate pigs...

sweating bullets. }(

[shain from kane]

3. The corporate pigs were warned about moving all those jobs to Mexico,

and other countries. What happens to your investment when you are confronted by instability? I suppose we should expect an invasion of Mexico to impose a right wing dictatorship to protect their investment and their workers. Too bad they did nothing to support the jobs remaining here.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Something's got to give...

you've got a two countries sharing a very long and porous border. One country is one of the richest in the world and the other country is one of the poorest. It can't be sustained. If it happens though, I expect that the Bush Administration will do everything in it's power to isolate and undermine this new government.

[shain from kane]

6. If leftists take over in Mexico, like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua,

it will lead to a fight for the restoration of the ruling class. The detention camps being built in the USA will be used to house the large amount of illegal aliens in our midst, because we can't have people sympathetic to the leftists wandering around as potential terrorists or fifth columnists. After all, they escaped from Mexico and the current ruling class, which didn't provide for them. If faced with the prospect of being returned to Mexico with a restored ruling class, they wouldn't be too happy, and will side with the leftists. Of course, there are many that are firmly established in the USA, that would not want to return under any circumstances. They will have to be sorted out within the detention camps.

[MoonRiver]

7. Hmmm, that sounds a little extreme, even for bushco.

Don't know how the neocons could equate political affiliation with being a terrorist. But if they were to get away with it, every leftist (American) political activist would be under threat also. Plus, this country would lose its last vestige of international credibility as a free democracy. I think the repercussions would be more frightening than the act.

[Virginia Dare]

8. I don't think it sounds very extreme at all...

if we suffer some sort of economic collapse here in the U.S., for instance if the real estate bubble bursts, what to do with all of the Mexicans and Central Americans that are currently working the construction jobs?

The only thing that is keeping Mexico stable right now is that there are plenty of jobs to be had in the U.S. for whoever is willing to risk making the trip up here.

What happens when that is no longer the case? More than likely we are faced major civil unrest. It's not so far-fetched to believe that contingencies are being put in place for that eventuality.

[MoonRiver]

9. Putting them into detention camps rather than sending them back?

How on earth could the pukes justify this?

[Virginia Dare]

10. They're "illegal", remember?

haven't you heard the cries of "rule of law" and "no amnesty" coming from the ranks of the freepers?

[MoonRiver]

11. Most people want them sent back (especially if they were to want to go)

and not housed in taxpayer subsidized detention camps. Somebody would have a LOT of explain' to do!

[shain from kane]

12. They wouldn't have to be detained forever. But there would have

to be a place to sort out those with leftist leanings, or to be defined as "potential" terrorists. We don't seem to be all that concerned that the illegal aliens from Mexico and other Latin American countries being terrorists, but there is a good segment of the population, either for racist and economic reasons, that would love to label any foreigner as a "potential" terrorists. Aliens used to have to register and report periodically to the immigration service, because that was the system used to track them.
Can you tell me why detention camps have been built, especially in southern regions of the USA, and Halliburton just received additional contracts to provide large amounts of services within the USA?

Edited to add the following paragraph copied from the internets:

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co, (HAL), said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.

[RufusEarl]

2. Mexico moves to the left?

It may be bad for US corporations and for this admin but it will help the people of Mexico. In the illegal immigration debate the one thing i keep hearing "If only Mexico would do something to improve their economy"

I believe if a leftist government took over Mexico that's what would happen, Hugo has done it and others in central america it can happen in Mexico.

[MoonRiver]

4. It would definitely be a good thing for Mexico.

And like you said if more people stayed there, because the economy improved under a fair and just government, we wouldn't have so many of them seeking a subsistence living over here. No brainer.