Thread: This is Mexico's tragedy, conspicuous consumption in housing

I found this on the website of a Mexican author and it is truly the tragedy of Mexico little investment in job creation much more in housing that is rarely used and is mostly to show off.

http://www.samquinones.com/tales_chapters.asp#15

Nuevo Chupicuaro Nuevo Chupicuaro: Bonifacio Caballero left Nuevo Chupicuaro in the mid-1960s to work in the fields of California. He returned home a short while later to build the village's first two-story house. Before too long, the rest of his friends and neighbors, emigrants all, were building the same. Bonifacio Caballero, along with most of Nuevo Chupicuaro, spent a lifetime working in a foreign land, always planning one day to return home. They created the American Dream not in the U.S., but in their Mexican village. Across emigrant Mexico the story is the same. Villages have been developed with two-storey homes of marble floors, satellite dishes, and two-car garages. Yet they are occupied only in December or January. The rest of the year hundreds of thousands of these handsome houses stand vacant across Mexico, as their owners landscape yards in Orange County, run valet parking in Chicago, and pick tobacco in North Carolina. The story of how one village came to be that way.

But, but . . . they want to become U.S. citizens because they love our country so much.

But but ... they're starving immigrants searching for food to feed their families and a better life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A1mbaro

Acámbaro is a city and municipality in the southeastern corner of the Mexican state of Guanajuato, on the banks of the Lerma River, and the oldest of the 46 municipalities of Guanajuato. Acámbaro is noted as a major railway junction, a local transport hub, and the origin of the nationally famous Acámbaro bread. Its greatest claim to world fame is being the source of the Acambaro figures, a purported archaeological forgery. The current (2005 census) population of the municipality is 101,762 persons, that of the city proper 55,082. The municipality covers an area of 867.67 km² (335.01 sq mi) and includes many small outlying communities, the largest of which are Iramuco and Parácuaro.



I see that Acambaro, Guanajuato where Chupicuaro is located is actually a good location for business. It should have been possible to create jobs there instead of empty houses.

That's true for most of Mexico. If they would stay there and work, they could build up their country with both jobs, industry, retail and housing.

No Reggiemay, they do not want to become Americans, they want to claim citizenship so they can benefit both from working here, and taking all they can, within the laws, and then be able to build up the lifestyle they want back in Mexico too, all with America taking the financial hit for it.

Originally Posted by AE

No Reggiemay, they do not want to become Americans, they want to claim citizenship so they can benefit both from working here, and taking all they can, within the laws, and then be able to build up the lifestyle they want back in Mexico too, all with America taking the financial hit for it.

Actually, they could care less about getting US citizenship. What they want are green cards and dual citizenship for their anchors, to take advantage of all the government handouts they can grab from us. They don't intend to settle here, as their hearts are in mexico.

I've heard all along that many of the migrants own land and farms and businesses in Mexico. Like other people who journey elsewhere for a higher salary, it doesn't mean they are the dispossessed poor. American citizens should not have to lose their jobs to such people---and we should not tolerate them calling and lobbying our Congress to direct US policy.

What a noble cause for a reason to invade this country: satellite dishes. Those poor, dear illegals. Of course they need to come here to be able to buy another car for the two-car garage. Why not also rob us blind for your dream of buying diamonds and yachts or the Lear jet?