There is lack of a strong middle class in Mexico which is why if you are rich there, it can be great. But if you are poor (as are most), you want a better life and will risk life and limb to get to a better country. But is it our obligation in the U.S. to give whoever comes to us illegally from Mexico, a better way of life when they broke our laws to get here? Why aren't we working more with Mexico to help them improve their own country so their people won't feel it necessary to break the laws to get here? Instead we focus on the individuals or the by-product of a troubled economy and government, versus treating the problem at it's source. Many Mexicans feel we should have no borders, that we are "all Americans" and the U.S. should just share it's bounty freely with it's neighbors. Do we have that obligation? We are so generous to the rest of the world but do we owe so much to Mexico as a neighbor, we take our own country down and disadvantage our own legal citizens?
2007-11-07
21:07:23
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John S.
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Immigration