Thread: If you were a Mexican business would you want to train when

a new unskilled worker if once you had expended your time and money the employee could freely travel to a place where they could gross nine times as much in pay. America's non enforcement of our laws leads to underdevelopment in Mexico.

Good point. But our government compensates for that. They announced a few weeks ago that they are giving big bucks to Mexico to develop jobs down there. I think that our banks that process funds for the cartels should be made to force this issue - like taking huge funds from the cartel monies to devote to non-cartel infrastructure in Mexico.

Richard,I don't really think anyone can truly understand what is going on in this invasion unless you have lived and grown up on the border or in a border state.

I am old enough to remember the good hardworking immigrants from south of our border. I have worried and wondered what the difference is between this new generation and my memories. Then I started remembering what I wittnessed in Juarez and further south in Mexico in the 70's. I started remembering the documentaries I had seen on life in Mexico for the street children. In 1996 there were 40 million of these children in our southern countries.

These children were abandoned by their parents and their country. They were not educated or loved by their families. The street gangs became their families. This was a major problem for Mexico. I believe as these kids grew up many have gone into the drug cartels or into the U.S.

Mexico has always tried to sweep this problem under the carpet, but now their solution is to blame everything on the U.S.

The foremost economic think tank in Mexico has expressed anxiety about the size of the 15 to 20 year old population. They have said it is an easy age for recruitment by criminal elements. There need to be alternatives for enterprising youth to go into. I do not think the number 40 million is acurate for Mexican street children it either represents the total number of youth or total of street children for Latin America.

Richard it is total street children for latin countries - notice I did say our southern countries.

A lot of these kids have alreay been exploited by criminal elements. I feel sorry for these kids that did not stand a chance, but it was not our fault. These countries are trying to sell us a bill of goods telling us they are all hard working and just want a better life. 15 and 20 year olds is too late they needed and need to help their people when they are babesd. They have never dealt honestly with this problem and find it easier to sweep them across the border for us to deal with.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

Richard it is total street children for latin countries - notice I did say our southern countries.

A lot of these kids have alreay been exploited by criminal elements. I feel sorry for these kids that did not stand a chance, but it was not our fault. These countries are trying to sell us a bill of goods telling us they are all hard working and just want a better life. 15 and 20 year olds is too late they needed and need to help their people when they are babesd. They have never dealt honestly with this problem and find it easier to sweep them across the border for us to deal with.

The real problem here is the quality of life.

There is no drinking water to speak of there.

It takes a complete village to raise ONE kid that can qualify for an American college!

Mexico HAS the tools to fix this, yet they are a greedy corrupt culture.

Ask my kids, all college grads and military back ground.

Bush did the right thing, yet the demo's ran the congress and ran the US to the ground under his watch.

Poverty increasing and education not keeping pace in Mexico

Every year, 445,000 youths abandon high school in Mexico due to poverty and violence, while another 1,144,000 more don’t even reach that educational level to begin with, and as a result, they enlarge the ranks of child labor including sexual exploitation, according to Mario Luis Fuentes, director general of CEIDAS, the Center for Studies and Investigation in Development and Social Assistance. Fuentes added that the number of Mexico’s poor has increased by 11 million from 2006 to date, and now totals 56 million.

http://m3report.wordpress.com/page/2/

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanc ... sortby=ASC