Mexican government benefitting from U.S. largesse

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By: Mark Wyland - Commentary

Mexican President Vicente Fox's government has decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying local, state, and federal officials in the United States for more lenient policies towards illegal immigrants. This interference in our government's policies is outrageous and should be condemned.

The political and financial leaders of Mexico are using the United States as a safety valve for millions of underemployed Mexican citizens. Encouragement as massive waves of their poorest citizens cross into the United States allows the Mexican ruling class to continue to avoid real economic, social, and political reform.

Not only does the Mexican government rid itself of millions of its own underemployed citizens in this process, the government gets the added benefit of money sent back to Mexico from its citizens working in the United States. These funds now represent Mexico's second largest source of foreign income, right after oil and ahead of tourism! This subsidy serves to mollify tens of millions of Mexican citizens while the economic benefit of spending those dollars here, in the country that has provided the jobs, is lost.


Some would argue that illegal immigrants are only coming here to do work Americans would not do, and that their labor and taxes actually have a positive impact on the economy of our nation. This is untrue. Economic studies demonstrate that illegal immigrants use literally billions of dollars more in taxpayer funded services than they contribute to the economy either through their labor or taxes. And that doesn't count the economic loss of sending billions of dollars to Mexico rather than spending them here, where the jobs are created.

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As a state legislator, my first priority is to protect the people of California. That is why I have submitted a Constitutional Amendment on the floor of the Assembly that would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, collecting government services or applying for driver's licenses. Unfortunately, the liberals who still run the Legislature in California will probably not even allow this bill to be voted on by the members of the Assembly, which is why I have also helped in the effort to qualify an initiative on the ballot to address this issue.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/01/17/opinion/commentary/1_16_0519_20_02.txt">Mexican Government Benefitting from U.S. Largesse

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1. Taken from the NSDAP (Nazi Party) program

1.1. We demand...
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5. Whoever has no citizenship is able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under authority of legislation for foreigners.
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7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. It is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.

8. Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/document/nca_vol14/1708-ps.htm

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2. Wow

But, my point in posting it was to highlight the blame the liberals are taking for something the president himself is doing, which is encouraging more illegal immigration to this country. I wouldn't encourage any free human being to abandon his native country to come here and be exploited as cheap labor when he should instead be demanding more from his own corrupt government.