Mexican legislators are traveling to Phoenix this week to complain about illegal aliens; returning to Mexico. “How can they pass a law like this?” asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales. The horror of it!
the legislators said Sonora – Arizona’s southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns – cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money.
Where does it say that this is our problem ?
How big is the problem ?
“There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,” she said in Spanish.
Rep. Francisco Garcia Gámez, a legislator from Cananea and that city’s former mayor, said the lack of mining jobs there has driven many Mexicans to Arizona to find work. He said they depend on jobs in Arizona to feed their families on both sides of the border.
That is what is going on. The Mexicans are coming here to work but their families are in Mexico. I actually don’t mind this if there is a way to let them work legally and avoid the burden on the community of extra services. We used to have such a program. It was called the Bracero Program. Why did it come to an end ? Because the American labor unions wanted to support Cesar Chavez and his Farm Workers Union.
The end of the Bracero program in 1964 was quickly followed by the formation of the United Farm Workers, and the subsequent transformation of American migrant labor under the activist leadership of Cesar Chavez, a prominent critic of the bracero program.
The rest is history. This is where the illegal immigration program began. Mexico has become more dependent on this program than the agricultural businesses that employ the workers. Expect more screaming from Mexico as attempts to close the borders increase.
TBC, if you are out there, what are the Spanish words for “hypocrite,” and “reciprocity”?
That article made me very angry, to quote Marvin the Martian.
The answer to affordable, safe, respectable housing on either side of the boarder is a new revolutionary migrant/labor housing buidling called the OmniSphere. It goes up as fast as a tent, and once erected is stronger than a stick built house and passes residential building codes in L.A. which are the strongest in the U.S.
InterShelter will have a display at the World Ag Show in Tulare CA the second week of February. InterShelter can provide extremly safe and comfortable living quarters at a price the farming and agricultural community can afford. Take a look at http://www.intershelter.com. God Speed…Capt. Don Kubley
Las palabras españolas son hipócrita y reciprocidad. México se ha convertido en un facsímil ridículo corrupto de un país.
Thank you, TBC. I suspect the genuine reason that the illegals will never be forced back into Mexico is that such an act will lead to revolution in Mexico. So long as they are here, working, they are not rebelling against the kleptocracy in Mexico City.
Besides, the sheer gall of Mexico lecturing the United States on border issues, given how Mexico acts at its own southern border, boggles the mind. But guess what? We let them get away with it.
We could always just say: “We won’t send the illegals back, if you send us a gazillion barrels of oil…” Of course, that would never happen.