Don't blame the U.S. for undocumented immigrants
Immigration problem is Mexico’s
Mankato Free Press
Maybe it’s time we quit beating up on George W. Bush and our congressional leaders about immigration. The blame lies with politicians but not ours! We should focus not on Washington, D.C., but on Mexico City.
While our talk-radio hosts bash the poor immigrant workers, the Mexican rich bask in the wealth created by a selfish, arrogant ruling class. These tax-sheltered millionaires pass their social problems on to the United States while mocking Americans like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet for their philanthropy.
Mexico has tax collections that amount to only 14 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, according to LatinFocus, an Internet-based world economy research organization. That’s compared with the U.S. level of 25 to 28 percent. Why have social programs and create jobs when you can simply send your poor north?
Each year Mexican workers in the United States send $24 billion back home to support their families, according to an estimate in The New York Times.
These remittances are second to petroleum in the Mexican economy, with tourism ranking third. We pay for their oil, we send them money and we spend our money there on vacation. There is something fundamentally wrong with this. Mexico is a very wealthy country. It has abundant natural resources, including oil. Mexico is the richest nation in Latin America when measured by GDP. Mexico has the resources to improve itself.
The question becomes why are we beating up on ourselves when this should be Mexico’s problem? If we had 12 million people from the United States working in Canada, we would have a revolution. We need to get off the backs of the poor and get behind the progressive leaders in Mexico who are working for equality.
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"If we had 12 million people from the United States working in Canada, we would have a revolution."Pat Ryan
Mankato Free Press
Maybe it’s time we quit beating up on George W. Bush and our congressional leaders about immigration. The blame lies with politicians but not ours! We should focus not on Washington, D.C., but on Mexico City.
While our talk-radio hosts bash the poor immigrant workers, the Mexican rich bask in the wealth created by a selfish, arrogant ruling class. These tax-sheltered millionaires pass their social problems on to the United States while mocking Americans like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet for their philanthropy.
Mexico has tax collections that amount to only 14 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, according to LatinFocus, an Internet-based world economy research organization. That’s compared with the U.S. level of 25 to 28 percent. Why have social programs and create jobs when you can simply send your poor north?
Each year Mexican workers in the United States send $24 billion back home to support their families, according to an estimate in The New York Times.
These remittances are second to petroleum in the Mexican economy, with tourism ranking third. We pay for their oil, we send them money and we spend our money there on vacation. There is something fundamentally wrong with this. Mexico is a very wealthy country. It has abundant natural resources, including oil. Mexico is the richest nation in Latin America when measured by GDP. Mexico has the resources to improve itself.
The question becomes why are we beating up on ourselves when this should be Mexico’s problem? If we had 12 million people from the United States working in Canada, we would have a revolution. We need to get off the backs of the poor and get behind the progressive leaders in Mexico who are working for equality.
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2 Comments:
Interesting post.
Mr. Ryan makes some valid points especially when Mexico is evaluated using the recently released Heritage Index of Economic Freedom. If you consider NAFTA, questions need to be raised as to why America is ranked #5 , Canada is #7 , while Mexico is #44 (El Salvador beat Mexico coming in at #33.)
Why does Mexico perform so poorly?
Bush deserves some of the responsibility. His attention after 9/11 became so narrowly focused on Iraq, that he lost sight of the rest of the world. In case you were wondering, Iraq is not ranked on the survey … makes you wonder if the Freedom Agenda was so bad that the Heritage Foundation did not want to evaluate Iraq.
I suggest that the question be asked of Norm Coleman who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and had an emphasis on the Americas. What does he make of the Mexico business environment and what should America be doing to improve it? The follow-up question for Senator Coleman would be … Well, why haven’t you done anything about it?
Mr. Ryan may be interested in this Foreign Policy piece which discusses concerns of Mexicans … especially America’s farm subsidies and Halliburton’s interest in the Mexican national oil industry.
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