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Published November 9, 2007



VICENTE FOX »

Mexico exports its problems

Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, recently forgot his manners when he visited the United States. Several times he publicly chastised this country for our immigration policies. It is usually considered impolite to criticize one's host about family matters but apparently Fox suffers from no such inhibitions.
He speaks of the benefit he thinks the presence of Mexicans illegally here has been. The Mexican laborer has been a benefit to certain American employers, but it is a benefit we could have done without.

The presence of millions of illegal aliens depresses wages and working conditions here. They cost America billions in jail and prison costs, welfare, food programs, and education. A dollar spent educating the illegal child of an illegal alien is a dollar that should have gone to an American child's education. The same is true for health care. He neglected to point out that over $20 billion a year flows from this country to Mexico. That money should have been paid to American workers, to be spent in this country.

While we may resent his poor manners, we do not begrudge Fox the freedom of speech guaranteed for all in this country. But if he is really concerned about Mexicans and Mexico he should spend his time, effort, and words at improving life for the people of Mexico by helping to develop an economy, an educational system, a system of laws, and a government in Mexico that allow them to stay home.

For Fox, though, it is easier to export their problems and import our dollars.
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