Thread: Mexico’s Surprising Admission—Emigration Not Necessary

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February 16, 2006

Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall
Mexico’s Surprising Admission—Emigration Not Necessary
Are Mexican illegal aliens such desperately poor people that they will die of starvation unless we let them into the United States?

Or is the truth a little more complicated?

The pro-open borders government of Mexico recently made a surprising public admission.

Not surprising for its content, but surprising that they publicly admitted it.

On January 9th, at a press conference in Los Pinos (the Mexican White House), Fox administration spokesman Ruben Aguilar was asked about emigration.

Here is part of what he said,

“In some cases it [emigration] has to do with real problems of poverty, and in others it answers to other types of personal interest. Statistics reveal that a very, very high number of the persons who emigrate to the United Status had work in Mexico. They don’t emigrate to get a job, but they emigrate for another series of conditions also of a cultural character, because they hope for a better condition of life despite the fact that they had work here. They aren’t going because they don’t have work in Mexico." (En algunos casos tiene que ver con problemas reales de pobreza, y en otros responde a otro tipo de intereses de las personas. Las estadÃ*sticas revelan que un número muy, muy alto, de las personas que emigran a los Estados Unidos tenÃ*an trabajo en México, no emigran por no tener trabajo, sino emigran por otra serie de condiciones también de carácter cultural, porque esperan una mejor condición de vida a pesar de que aquÃ* tenÃ*an trabajo, no se están yendo porque no tengan trabajo en México.) [Press conference transcript]

This fits in with a recent report released by the Pew Hispanic Center entitled Unemployment Plays Small Role in Spurring Mexican Migration to the U.S.

The material for this study was based on surveys of Mexican immigrants applying for matricula consular cards in the U.S., which means nearly all of them were illegal aliens.

The polling was conducted in 7 U.S. cities (Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Raleigh and Fresno) from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Pew’s press release begins:

"The vast majority of undocumented migrants from Mexico were gainfully employed before they left for the United States, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released today. The report suggests that failure to find work at home does not seem to be the primary reason that the estimated 6.3 million undocumented migrants from Mexico have come to the U.S.â€

They don’t emigrate to get a job, but they emigrate for another series of conditions also of a cultural character, because they hope for a better condition of life despite the fact that they had work here. They aren’t going because they don’t have work in Mexico."

I believe this. The illegals around here(my hometown), are buying cars and spending an outrageous amount of money on those cars, chroming them out, putting lift kits on them, buying expensive car stereos, and those irritating, loud mufflers for those vehicles. It's clear that the illegals who are doing these things are not sending their money back to their poor, starving relatives, they are buying things like this, unecessary for survival. I am so sick of hearing the pro-illegal whiners saying that the illegals are just looking for a way to feed their starving children Hell, I need tires and my check engine light is on, but I can't afford to get my car checked out or buy those tires right now. I don't know how it is where the rest of you live, but here in NC, the illegals are driving brand new, highly expensive cars and trucks, while Americans like me are stuck driving a falling apart, 1997 automobile. But I can't get food stamps or assistance while I pay for a new car, hell, I am not entitled to assistance because I am AN AMERICAN CITIZEN!

They're coming for the freebies; food stamps, free medical care, free education, no taxes.

REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

Mexico is a free country. Its citizens enjoy freedom of movement, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Mexico has free elections and is even now engaged in a presidential election. So let’s have no nonsense about Mexicans moving to the U.S. "in search of freedom".

So they say.

They're coming for the freebies; food stamps, free medical care, free education, no taxes.

AHHHHH! the new suffix is -dom. Free-DOM. Freedom food stamps, freedom medical care, freedom education, freedom from taxes. I gotcha! And their logic has eluded us for all this time.