Thread: Speaker: U.S. Mexico must work together to solve immigration

Speaker: U.S., Mexico must work together to solve immigration issues

Posted: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:00 pm | Updated: 12:37 pm, Wed Nov 17, 2010.

By SARA GIBONEY Hub Staff Writer | 0 comments

KEARNEY — Tacho first came to the United States from Mexico in 1970 as a young man trying to make some extra cash.

After working in the hotel business in Santa Barbara, Calif., for five years, he returned to Mexico and married Adelina.

They started a family, which eventually grew to eight girls and two boys.

Over the years, Tacho worked tirelessly to support his 10 children in the ranch, construction and transportation industries. He eventually found some success as a clothing salesman. But when a business deal went bad, he was left deep in debt.

In 1996, he migrated to Hugoton, Kan., where he worked 12-hour days in the oil industry making $6.50 an hour.

After four years, he had saved $35,000, enough to pull him out of debt. Tacho returned to his family in Mexico. He paid his debts and expanded his sales business, which is now thriving. He also bought 30 cattle and started his own feedlot.

In 2008, he was elected president of the

local ranchers association, and he worked to open a pasteurization plant in his hometown.

Tacho is one of many immigrants Kansas State University geography professor Jeffrey Smith interviewed while conducting research on Mexican immigration in Chalchihuites, Mexico.

Smith presented, “Putting a Face on Migration from Rural Mexico,â€

More BS

What a crock

Why should the United States share responsibility? Mexico must work to keep its citizens in Mexico. We do not want illegals in the United States. It is not our responsibility to keep illegal Mexicans here.

Mexico doesn't want to solve the problem--their consulates are going to states to provide documents to help illegals stay to suck the life out of our country and send the remittances back. Mexico got $28 billion in remittances in 2008--more than all of US foreign aid for that year. Their country has a lower unemploymnet rate and its economy is growing faster than ours--all documented elsewhere on this site. What interest in stopping illegal immigration could they possibly have?

Originally Posted by Watson

Mexico doesn't want to solve the problem--their consulates are going to states to provide documents to help illegals stay to suck the life out of our country and send the remittances back. Mexico got $28 billion in remittances in 2008--more than all of US foreign aid for that year. Their country has a lower unemploymnet rate and its economy is growing faster than ours--all documented elsewhere on this site. What interest in stopping illegal immigration could they possibly have?

Watson, you hit the nail on the head. It's all about the billions in remittances. Mexico has ZERO incentive to resolve the problem!

Immigrants choose to come to the United States because there are many jobs U.S. workers are unwilling to take at the wages offered

Bingo!! Americans won't work for less than minimum wage and no benefits. And they shouldn't.

the time for discussion has ended .... i for one am no longer interested in hearing the counter arguments on illegal immgration ...

you stay on your side of the border , we will stay on our side ... end of story .

Why would mexico want to solve the "problem" when they can simply send millions of their invaders (who are criminals, poor, uneducated, hate gringos) north, where they get jobs, have anchor babies who get American citizenship, receive free education for those anchors, resulting in billions of dollars being sent back to mexico in the way of remittances.

In other words, American is mexico's welfare system. Why would they want to change that when they are making out so well! Mexico's "solution" is to send even more invaders north, while calling anyone who wants American's immigration laws enforced "racists and nativists!"

Not ONE job will ever be created in mexico, so long as their neighbor to the north refuses to enforce their immigration laws and secure that border!

It's that simple....

America should not work with an enemy country like Mexico. We should seal our borders and remove all of Mexico's citizens from our soil.

We can bring in temporary migrant workers (not their families) from other countries.

In 1996, he migrated to Hugoton, Kan., where he worked 12-hour days in the oil industry making $6.50 an hour.

After four years, he had saved $35,000, enough to pull him out of debt. Tacho returned to his family in Mexico. He paid his debts and expanded his sales business, which is now thriving. He also bought 30 cattle and started his own feedlot.

This story is BS, made up!! Nobody that makes $6.50 an hour and has 10 children can save $35,000 in 4 years sorry not believeing it....at least they could make up a story that is believeable!!