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Probably an issue of economics:
Now Mexico has a low unemployment rate but violence, especially against immigrants, is quite high.
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Thanks Hawkwin, ok that makes a lot of sense. It’s all about opportunity. My sister in law is from Thailand and a lot of people come from Thailand. The country is beautiful and unbelievably cheap to live in but they come here for opportunity also. It is amazing how this country is such an engine for growth and we need more and more workers.
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Per capita income
United States: $70,000
Brazil: $15,600
Argentina: $23,000
Panama: $29,000
Mexico: $19,000
No matter where they land they’re going to be at the bottom of the ladder, why not try the tallest ladder?
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Actually a lot of people from VZ do end up in many of those countries as well. It is not an either/or.
We are trying to keep people from central American in Mexico to be factory labor.
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Speaking of immigrants, one of the local Detroit TV stations is owned by Scripps. The recent “spelling bee” was sponsored by Scripps, so the local station “news” gave it a lot of coverage.
I did not see many while people among the finalists. Seems the upcoming best and brightest in the country, are the very people the Shiny faction is trying to keep out.
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The long-term way to control immigration is to create a NAFTA-like agreement for Central and South America while establishing programs to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in the USA.
Tough political sell though.
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Tough political sell though
Anything rational sane forward looking is a tough political sell these days.
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That’s not the only reason!!! The corruption in those places screw them (those lower on the ladder) really badly, the corruption here in the USA on balance helps them.
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The interesting thing is that both the Right and Left are at fault. Historically we used to have large immigration waves of poor folks from Europe, Mexico, and Japan. European immigration declined when the Marshal Plan and Common Market rebuilt the European economy. Immigration from Japan declined after the Japanese economy was rebuilt after WWII. Immigration from Mexico declined after NAFTA.
The only policies that seem to work to reduce the immigration of poor people into America are globalization and foreign aid. Both the right and left hate the former and the right hates the latter.
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I am against mass immigration legal or illegal to the US. It has something to do with my heart that most Americans are not aware of.
When the risk takers educated or not leave a country those left behind suffer greatly. The brain drain to the US, EU or UK leaves behind authoritarian regimes with no counter balance.
This also means American boys and girls in the military are at greater risk when the authoritarians act up.
It means billions of people starve and are greatly impoverished. Sure that was an advantage to the US among many.
Right now we want educated people as always. That means we spend less educating our own. It becomes another country’s expense.
We have to stop those policies. The countries are not blank holes. Some of us are though.
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I completely agree with this. And I’ve said it for decades. We do our best to take their best and brightest, certainly even when not the best and brightest, we take the ones with most initiative since it takes initiative to make the decision to move a continent away with different ways of life, language, etc. That leaves them hollowed out without their best and brightest to lead them (I don’t necessarily mean lead politically, but in all realms of life).
What gives us the right to pick off their “stars”? Nothing intrinsic, other than our level of freedom compared to theirs.
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Won’t work. When the climate is too hot to survive, people move–meaning they migrate–because not moving means they die. Solve that problem (which one?) and you will be (almost) instantly wealthy.
You might enjoy watching this documentary.