Pedro I Rengel wrote:Interesting fact: an increasing amount of states south of Texas have adopted and are adopting the dollar as their currency. Read: Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Puerto Rico.
Let's use actual valuable things as currency.
I agree about Mexico in general, but that people would wander through the desert to find jobs they don't need seems hallucinated to me. Also that they would set down stakes in another country when they felt they had the same or nearly the same opportunity in Mexico, also seems hallucinated. Certainly the drug industry causes some, though small, portion of the influx. But then that simply businesses supplying a product US citizens have a huge demand for through the only methods available. I think most of the influx is people who think they have a way to support their families and gain some stability which they do not have in Mexico or the other countries that they are coming through Mexico from. And so, yes, poverty is a huge driver. Otherwise they would not take the risk. And it is a risk to smuggle themselves in and also to set up in the US, with the chance of being thrown out and starting at zero or less always hanging over their heads. It's too much for me to think they are simply choosing out of pigheadedness to risk a lot on the journey and then risk a lot after setting up, if they had nearly as good a chance back home where they are legal residents. We don't have to see them as individuals as stupid or with bad intent to have issues with their arrival.Gloominary wrote:Mexico isn't a bad country, these people aren't fleeing persecution, poverty, violence and so forth, illegals are coming to sell drugs and guns or steal jobs they don't need, and didn't earn.
Karpel Tunnel wrote:I agree about Mexico in general, but that people would wander through the desert to find jobs they don't need seems hallucinated to me. Also that they would set down stakes in another country when they felt they had the same or nearly the same opportunity in Mexico, also seems hallucinated. Certainly the drug industry causes some, though small, portion of the influx. But then that simply businesses supplying a product US citizens have a huge demand for through the only methods available. I think most of the influx is people who think they have a way to support their families and gain some stability which they do not have in Mexico or the other countries that they are coming through Mexico from. And so, yes, poverty is a huge driver. Otherwise they would not take the risk. And it is a risk to smuggle themselves in and also to set up in the US, with the chance of being thrown out and starting at zero or less always hanging over their heads. It's too much for me to think they are simply choosing out of pigheadedness to risk a lot on the journey and then risk a lot after setting up, if they had nearly as good a chance back home where they are legal residents. We don't have to see them as individuals as stupid or with bad intent to have issues with their arrival.Gloominary wrote:Mexico isn't a bad country, these people aren't fleeing persecution, poverty, violence and so forth, illegals are coming to sell drugs and guns or steal jobs they don't need, and didn't earn.
Employment is no guarantee in either country of not being poor. Mexico has a much greater disparaty between the rich and poor and a weaker infrastructure to support the ppor.Gloominary wrote:The % of unemployed in Mexico is about 4, the same as it is in the US, and while the US is obviously richer, it's cost of living is higher.
Overall the US economy is of course better, but it's not as if Mexicans are homeless and starving,
I would guess this is true, and I would guess that the poverty figures for both countries are likely worse than we hear about.The American media exaggerates illegals plight and downplays the plight of Americans, because it's no longer loyal to Americans, it threw them under the bus ages ago, sold itself out to globalists and multinationals on the one hand, and aliens on the other.
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