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Except it isn't fair to them or to us. Another thing I might remind folks is that certain Democrats have said this very same thing. "They do work other Americans won't do"... It's really pathetic at this point.
Bringing foreigners into this country to work for slave wages...isn't that, well, SLAVERY?
At some point, Vincente Fox needs his ass kicked! WE send millions of $$ to him. What does he do with it? He spreads it around to his cronies and they live in the lap of luxury..at least comfort, while the outlying Mexican citizens live in the harshest conditions trying to keep body and soul together.
NAFTA, CAFTA and "haveta" are ruining the ecomonic well being of the small farmer/workers in these countries. Big corps buy up the small farmers which sends them to the city OR to the US (or elsewhere).
There is no nationally beneficial infrastructure there. The rule of law is conditional. There are no programs to help the citizens partake of the economic pie, no safty net programs, NO HELP for the very poor or the struggling lower income workers and unfair trade.
In the meantime, we send over $$$, the tourist trade dumps large sums of money into their economy, there are billionaires living there, and non Mexican foreigners are building expensive homes/communities there as I type. It's outrageous what that country is being allowed to get away with and what this country hides on that issue.
I was just talking about some of this with our Mexican Immigrant friends. They say it really really sucks..for all the reasons I've mentioned. My friend said his brother had a Fruit Farm/Orchard. He LOVED his farm. He made a living at it UNTIL NAFTA/big corps et al came along. All of a sudden, selling his product to the country or to us was almost impossible. He couldn't make a living anymore and had to give it up. The man is in the US now working as a............waiter!!!!!!!!!
For the most part, these people are being used as pawns in a politcal game. It's outrageous. The problem doesn't lie with the people who need to earn their living, it lies with the Governments--American & Mexican!
FINALLY, I heard a caller to a radio show bring up Vincente Fox and the unethical alliance between this country and Mexico.
There's a whole lot of asskicking that needs to commence between our gov and the Mexican gov. PDQ Iraq? Hell, we've got human rights violations and undemocratic policy makers living right next door!
Ultimately, we're all just a "slave labor" pool, it's just that some of us will work cheaper than others. What a freaking mess.
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