Thread: AZ: Immigrants' activist sees mass exodus to Mexico

...best news I heard all day...and this is the only way the Mexican government will be forced to deal with their underclass...a mass repatriation of poor, uneducated, unemployed, unskilled people ....and Mexico has a moral obligation to fix their government to provide adecuate education, and economic opportunties for their population. It is shameful and disgraceful that Mexican officials have for decades and generations ruled their nation ( a nation full of agricultural, touristic, and mineral riches) as if they were still in colonial times. It is outrageous that international human rights bodies haven't condemned or sanctioned the Mexican government for their failures....exporting the underclass in exchange for billions of dollars in illegal remittances and a way to bypass building schools, health care facilities and/or providing economic opportunities for their people. The only people who have benefitted for decades in this scheme are the profiteers of illegal immigration...including the human traffickers, the smugglers, the drug cartels and the sleazy individuals and businesses on the U.S. side that hired/harbored/aided and abetted the illegals.

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http://www.alipac.us/article3840.html

Vio Con dios y feliz navidad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihW56Xa3XGQ

Tens of thousands of immigrants are making a Christmas pilgrimage to their homeland of Mexico and many will not come back, according to Valley immigrant rights activist Elias Bermudez.

YEE-HA! GIDDY-UP! GREAT NEWS!

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December 19, 2008 - 9:45 PM
By Laura Tillman, The Brownsville Herald


http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/h ... eport.html



A "small but significant decline" in the number of Latino immigrants in the U.S. labor force has occurred during the ongoing recession, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

"Among Latino immigrants, 71.3 percent were in the labor force at the close of the third quarter of 2008, compared with 72.4 percent a year earlier," states the report, titled "Latino Workers in the Ongoing Recession: 2007 to 2008."

The total number of immigrant Latinos in the work force increased by an estimated 150,000 from the third quarter 2007 to the same quarter the next year, according to the report which was released Monday.

Data for the report was obtained from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics and was compiled by Pew researcher Rakesh Kochhar.

"The impact of the deepening recession is now pervasive as job losses and rising unemployment affect all workers," Kochhar writes in the introduction. "From the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008, 1.7 million non-Hispanics, 287,000 native-born Hispanics, and 239,000 foreign-born Hispanics are newly unemployed."

Some unemployment and wage statistics in the report favored Hispanics, while others favored non-Hispanics.

Wages, for example, favored Hispanics.

"Median weekly wages in constant dollars fell 1.4 percent for non-Hispanics," the report states, while wages for Hispanic workers were unchanged in the same period.

The unemployment rate, however, rose more drastically for Hispanics than non-Hispanics.

"The unemployment rate for Hispanics increased from 5.7 percent to 7.9 percent. The 2.2 percentage point rise was greater than the 1.2 percentage point rise for non-Hispanics, whose unemployment rate went from 4.6 percent to 5.8 percent."

According to Kochhar, this rise would have been more dramatic for Hispanics, had many of them not withdrawn from the labor force. That is, many of them were not actively seeking employment; such individuals are not counted among the unemployed.

About eight percent of the U.S. labor force is made up of Latino immigrants, according to the report

The unemployment rate, however, rose more drastically for Hispanics than non-Hispanics

So long as they're illegal Hispanics, I couldn't care less. Now they know how Americans feel.

Pilgrimage? Is that what they are calling it now? Is that not more of a religious thing? A long journey to visit some religious nation,city,cultural center.

And why is it , that these people want to try and compare our economic problems with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? Saying that ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION HAS NO EFFECT on ECONOMICS! LET ME THINK!!! MILLIONS of ILLEGALS COLLECTING or GETTING BILLIONS of dollars in aide and or social services,and if that is not enough sending BILLIONS of DOLLARS across the borders to their homelands........NO EFFECT on OUR ECONOMY!!!

What great Christmas news!

Hasta La Bye Bye

Originally Posted by legalatina

...best news I heard all day...and this is the only way the Mexican government will be forced to deal with their underclass...a mass repatriation of poor, uneducated, unemployed, unskilled people ....and Mexico has a moral obligation to fix their government to provide adecuate education, and economic opportunties for their population.

You have hit the nail right on the head! For decades Mexican politicians have been joining international organizations and speaking at the United Nations about the need to give financial assistance to the poor people of the world, but as soon as it is their own poor that need assistance, jobs and better public services they turn a blind eye and scapegoat the United States, sometimes pulling the race card.

Here you go, Mexico, it is time to prove to the rest of the world that you put actions behind your words! According to your own government propaganda, Mexican migrant laborers are the most desirable, hard working laborers in the world who are a benefit to any nation that takes them in. Now that you have many of these "gifted" workers back in your own country why not put them to work in a crash program of building schools, roads, hospitals and a better life for all Mexicans!

What's stopping you?