Which is exactly the core reason they come. They come because they believe
that they have a better shot at a reasonably good like here than Mexico.
Until we figure out a way to change the dynamics at work, they will still
keep trying to come to this country.
"Mosquebuster" wrote in message
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> If no one hires them, will they come? Yeah, SURE. Why doesn't the
> Mexicrement goverment try to do something to help their citizens to
> improve
> their lives instead of making stupid-ass remarks about the National Guard
> and threatening lawsuits? Get a clue, Vicente. Mexico is becoming just
> another turd-world country that doesn't give a shit if its poor people
> skip
> out en masse. Look at it this way: If *nothing* can stop them, that
> makes
> them hostile invaders, and they can be dealt with accordingly ---
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>
> Mexicans Say Nothing Will Halt Migrants
>
> 5/18/06
>
> NOGALES, Mexico - Mexicans say it will take more than three layers of
> fence
> and 6,000 National Guard troops to keep them out of the United States.
>
> As President Bush visited the stretch of Arizona desert Thursday that
> serves
> as a cactus-studded freeway for thousands of undocumented migrants, those
> preparing to make the perilous trip said they will find a way around
> almost
> any obstacle.
>
> "We'll go under it, we'll go over it, we'll go through the air, the sea or
> the earth, but they're never going to stop us from crossing," said Jesus
> Santana, a Tijuana truck driver who was caught trying to cross and
> deported.
>
> Increased security will likely only serve to make smuggling fees more
> expensive and drive immigrants deeper into debt, making them even more
> desperate to make it north.
>
> As a tired, bedraggled column of deportees filed across a Nogales border
> bridge Thursday - just as Bush was giving a speech on border security west
> of here - some migrants were already furiously dialing cell phones to
> contact immigrant smugglers for their next attempt.
>
> "Of course we'll cross again. We're just waiting for them to come and pick
> us up," said Javier Torres, 22, of Cuiliacan, Sinaloa. Just 100 yards
> away,
> vans of the kind used by smugglers waited under an underpass to pick up
> groups of deportees.
>
> The deportees were greeted on the Mexican side by Martin Doriane, who for
> the last four years has surveyed returning migrants for the Colegio de la
> Frontera Norte.
>
> Doraine says at least 95 percent of migrants caught and deported say
> they'll
> try again, in part because they've sold everything they own in Mexico to
> pay
> increasingly expensive and sophisticated smuggling efforts to overcome
> tightened border security.
>
> "They say, 'I had a roof and a frying pan in Mexico, but I sold both to
> come
> north, and went into debt, so what do I have to return to?'" Doraine said.
>
> One of the deportees, Maria del Carmen Valadez, brought her 12-year-old
> son,
> Julio Cesar Castaneda, on the dangerous two-day trek through the desert.
> The
> boy hungrily ate a taco Doriane gave him as his mother acknowledged "it is
> a
> risk" to bring a child on such a dangerous trip.
>
> "I did it to give him a different life," said Valadez, of Fresnillo in
> Zacatecas in northern Mexico. She said she'll probably try to cross again,
> because in her home town, "there's nothing but poverty."
>
> That sense of desperation - and determination - is everywhere.
>
> On Monday, a detained woman told agents she had left her 3-year-old son
> dead
> in the desert.
>
> The proposed 370 miles of triple-layer fencing, approved by the Senate
> Wednesday, as well as Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to play
> supporting roles in border enforcement have raised tempers and tensions
> here.
>
> "Somebody is going to start shooting, and then there will be problems
> between the two countries," predicted Santana, the Tijuana truck driver.
>
> Mexico's government has expressed concern about the wall and National
> Guard
> proposals, saying they aren't the way to solve problems of border security
> and illegal migration north.
>
> "Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down
> physical,
> commercial and cultural barriers," presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar
> said
> Thursday. "Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line. Walls are a
> sign of distrust, and that will never be the basis of a good friendship
> between two countries."
>
> The Senate measure includes provisions that would give some undocumented
> immigrants a path toward citizenship and allow more people to work
> temporarily in the United States.
>
> But Santana said he saw no advances in the sweeping reform package.
>
> "There will always be more people wanting to come," he said. "It will
> always
> be like this."
>
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