Thread: Mexicans Get Less Aid From Migrants

" As of the peak year Mexican immigrants sent an average of 15% of their ncome to Mexico as remittances but 90% went to consumption of such things as processed food, modern housing and housing maintenance and store bought clothing. If instead they had used their remittances for productive assets they would not be in the fix they are right now."


They didn't because they never expected the flow of $$ from the US to dry up or even slow down. After all, aren't we all "wealthy Americans" ?

"Work opportunities here are nonexistent, so this is going to cause more migration to the United States, even though it is getting harder to find work over there."

Is this suppose to be a threat? Are Americans suppose to give up their jobs for Mexico? (Give you what we have or you will come and take it) nice neighbors!!

Their cheap labor is part of the problem Americans are seeing today...but to hell with Americans eh!! they say we are selfish but it seems to me it is all about them constantly.

We have our own problems Mexico, you deal with your own citizens, and how about using some of that aid we give you (that we can not afford)to help your poor.

Alfonso was faithfully sending home $100 a month until late last year, when he lost his home in a Los Angeles suburb to foreclosure, his father said. Now no money comes. The sons of at least three of Hernández's elderly neighbors have also lost their homes, their jobs or both, he said. The river of money from the United States that sustained this village is now drier than the desert that surrounds it.

This is the wrong time to send us your sob stories. April is not a good month for anyone, Americans are getting their statements for the end of the first quarter. They are seeing the thousands that they lost on their 401k, they are getting critical status notices for their pensions. They are losing their jobs and insurance. They are watching as friends and relativies are losing their homes through foreclosure. They are struggling to find a way in the midst of all this to send their children to college.

No Mexico, Americans are too busy trying to regroup and survive to waste our time on your sob stories, we have enough of our own.

Hopefully our economic woes will force our southern neighbors to immigrate to other countries such as Spain or the Mid-East.

Calderon needs to spend less time on berating Americans and more time on creating jobs for his citizens.Mexico is a rich country....for the rich and that needs to change.

The change will not come until Mexicans understand Americans will no longer support them so go protest in Mexico NOT the USA.

Quote in part:

The money has transformed the landscape of many small towns, paying for new houses and new kitchens, cars and childcare, medical care and clothes. But some economists also say the giant sums sent to Mexico have created a sense of complacency, especially among government officials who have failed to right the country's wobbly economy.

"This is demonstrating that there is an increased dependence on remittances and a great vulnerability for the country," said Rodolfo GarcÃ*a Zamora, an economics professor at the University of Zacatecas and one of Mexico's leading authorities on remittances. "Neither the government nor the families who are affected have a good alternative to remittances."

President Felipe Calderón, who began his term in December 2006 promising to be "the employment president," boasted recently that 800,000 new jobs were created during his first year in office. Still, an estimated 400,000 to 650,000 Mexicans -- three-quarters of whom are undocumented -- cross the border each year to look for work in the United States, according to Mexican government estimates.



Mexico is a failed government. They have failed politicians and citizens, yet they want the reconquista movement to usurp what we have built. Even if they did gain control, they would quickly tear down what this country has built for over 200 years. IF they couldn't build and maintain a solvent and profitable government from where they came, they can't do it here either. It comes down to leeching off of us.