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Real American:
That is too many.


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20070430-0956-mexico-usa-.html

9:56 a.m. April 30, 2007

MEXICO CITY - Almost one in two Mexicans has a family member working in the United States, and a third of those were sent money in the past year, according to a survey published in Mexican daily El Universal Monday.
The poll of 1,000 people showed 45 percent had at least one relative across the border and 61 percent rated the money they send as "very important," illustrating Mexico's reliance on remittances.


 Some 11 million Mexicans in the United States sent home a record $23 billion to their families last year - Mexico's second-biggest source of foreign currency after oil imports, even dwarfing the tourism industry.
Monday's survey showed immigration to the United States, much of it illegal, peaked during the 1990s, after Mexico was battered by an economic crisis.

Eight percent of those polled said they themselves had worked in the United States at some time.

As many as one in two people in Mexico live on less than $5 a day, and a lack of job opportunities prompts thousands to risk their lives crossing the border illegally each year.

Border arrests were down by just under a third in the first few months of this year but more than 150 immigrants have already died trying to cross over, mainly of heat exhaustion.

The United States is building a 700-mile fence along parts of its 2,000-mile border with Mexico and boosting security by adding trucks with infrared cameras, underground sensors that detect footsteps and surveillance drones

Javier:
Guess how many of them are serving with the military?  Or have sons and daughters serving? 

virtuoso:

Stop being played for a fool real american, you noted at the bottom that the fence is being built, we don't actually know when it's being built but aside from that it's 700 miles long yet the border is 2000 miles therefore this is complete P.R complete tokenism. in addition to this you have the minute men being demonised and attacked as white racists, even though a third of the minutemen are hispanic. There are millions and millions of mexicans who have flocked to the promised lands of america and by the way the official figures as is always the case, are deliberately understated and yet George Bush is essentially proposing a complete amnesty, if you look beyond the rhetoric, see what he is actually proposing. Add to this mix, the almost daily devaluing of the U.S dollar and what do you think is the end result? the U.S economy is being deliberately destroyed. Your beloved country is being deliberately brought down and your precious leader George Bush and the people that pull his strings within the administration are complicit in this. This is not the fault of the mexicans, who can blame them for wanting to escape the vile tyranny they have suffered in Mexico but the people allowing the open borders are fully aware of what the end result will be.

By the way I am talking about illegal immigrants not mexicans/hispanics who went through the proper channels and who are in america legally.

jeromechickenbone:
I don't give a fuck how many mexicans are here as long as they're legal.

BigG:
Theres been illegal immigrants since the start of America.

It IS NOT making the economy worse.  If anything its making it better.

PEOPLE WERE SAYING THE EXACT SAME THING ABOUT THE IRISH WHEN THEY CAME TO THE US BECAUSE OF THEIR POTATO CROP FAILED.

IT WAS DURING THE 1800'S WHEN THIS WAS HAPPENING AND IT WASNT JUST A COUPLE OF IRISH THAT CAME IT WAS MILLIONS OF THEM.



ONE THING i dont get is that, they say that immigrants are taking american jobs, but when it comes to the military nobody says anything.  THE FIRST MARINE TO DIE IN IRAQ WASNT EVEN AN AMERICAN.  HE WAS FROM GUATEMALA.

THERE ARE 32,000 "Green card Soldiers" fighting the "war on terror".  NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. 

 

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