Why do immigrants in impoverished countries cross the border illegally?

Question

Because of the money! Let me state that I am not only referring to the Mexican border, but also select European borders.
Not only do we have money, but we live in Disneyland, good booze, lots of sex, we get to shoot at everybody we don’t like, we drive shiny cars really fast and occasionally jump them through burning buildings or over police barricades, we exercise on big machines that look like UFOs, and we love Jesus. We are proud of these facts, and we advertise them 24 hours a day, all over the world.
TV, radio, movies, and recordings invite visitors from all over the world to visit the Magic Kingdom! Our ambassadors wave and smile and say, Come on and get some! Starsky and Hutch, Mickey Mouse, Madonna, those buff lifeguards on Baywatch.
Fortunately for the Mexicans, they live right outside the back fence of this Fantasyland. And as everyone knows, Fantasyland is a few short steps away from Tomorrowland.
Night and day, the hungry watch us frolic in Disneyland.

The lights are always on. They can see the glow reflected on the poison clouds of pollution. They see the ads on TV. They want to come in and ride.
If they don’t get in the gates, their babies might very well die of starvation, disease, or misadventure. What choice would you make?

It the American government really wanted to stop the crossings, the border would be sealed as tight as an envelope. Small “triumphs” are allowed—El Paso and Juarez have new fences and patrols and bottlenecks and no illegals. Sazam! That’s what, five miles out of two thousand? Your tax dollars at work.
I wonder if the Border Patrol ever feels betrayed?
Do you like lettuce? How about tomatoes? Onions. Garlic. Peaches. Avocados. Cotton.
Sugar.
Oranges, apples, cherries, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, grapes, pecans, walnuts, pumpkins?
And you don’t want to spend $15.00 for a quart of strawberries or $5.30 for a can of peas. How about $20.98 for a pair of Jockey shorts?

It’s called agribusiness, multinational free enterprise, and if for no other reason than that, the border will never be closed. Unless, of course, U.S. citizens suddenly develop strong backs again, and a ferocious work ethic, and brave, very brave, hearts. Lately I haven’t seen lines of Harvard grads or third-generation welfare recipients in the four AM dusk in Phoenix or Blythe or Bakersfield, where the buses collect people and haul them out into the brutal sun.
Can the Mexican border be sealed? Who will build it? Mexican workers would be building the wall. They’d still make money. Then, when the wall is complete, Mexicans all along the line could set up photo booths where they could charge gringo tourists to pose for a portrait by the wall. And, later, when border perestroika kicked in, the Mexicans would be hired to tear it all back down.
Can the Mexican border be sealed?

Is there some hermetic lock the politicians can put on two thousand miles of mostly wasteland and desert? And if they do, who will be the scapegoat then?
Watch for the rising smoke…

Answer 1

A father with hungry children and no job prospects at home doesn't need the bright lights of Disneyland to tempt him to come over the border. Most illegal immigrants only want the opportunity to feed their families. And NO FENCE across ANY border will discourage a loving father from climbing over when such conditions exist at home.

Answer 2

There are 4.6 BILLION people in this world more impoverished than the average Mexican
From Myths and Lies About Illegal Immigration:

Myth #7. Without illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. The definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" The study concludes that 'since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products (which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), using minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products by approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter ... hardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims.

You want to come into the USA "to feed your family" do it the LEGAL way or stay there and plant a garden.

Answer 3

I agree they come here for the money,but more so for the free government handouts. Mexico is a rich country,they should try to improve there own country and not steal and disrespect ours. It might be true immigrants made this country,but they really wanted the American Dream,the illegal immigrants only want what they can get for free,and then to go back to Mexico,even the legal Mexicans I know donot want illegals here. Immigrants that respected the law and came here legal dont feel it is right for someone to come illegal. As far as saying they are poor,I dont buy it,they are not to poor to pay coyotes to help them here or not to poor to have the children in the first place. If I couldnt afford to raise a child I wouldnt have one and expect someone else to take care of it.Later on just keep having them.And the turn the American flag upsidedown,steal our ID and SS. They demand equal rights after they break our laws.If thats not disrespect from there part,then I dont know what is. Im sending some links,you might not read them,but Americans are waking up to this nonsence 'they only want a better life."America cannot take care of our own who have earned SS and fought for this country later onthe illegal locusts. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm http://www.immigrationcounters.com/ http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/03/hidden_cost_of_.html

Answer 4

there will allways be poor people that think the grass is greener on the other side. I live in Canada. and I know many people who have came here from other places to start a new life, and it's not all it seems. In North America, we are greedy and will step on one another to get somewhere. Personally I am looking for a property in mexico, I'd love to move there and get away from all this **** Actually canada ain't that bad, USA is. I wouldn't want to live there. Over populated, run by an idiot, and followed by people who are brainwashed by CNN.

Answer 5

Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hardworking and honest (except for when I broke into your house). According to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family's insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide other benefits to me and to my family (my husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part). If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there. It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm hardworking and honest, um, except for well, you know. And what a deal it is for me! I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice and being an anti-housebreaker. Oh yeah, and I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me. Sound a little bit off the mark??

Answer 6

Of course the poor people are looking for a better life, or a chance to have a life where they own a home, or some land.

Answer 7

Two reasons:

a) The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

b) America as you say advertises that the grass is greener to evreyone.

I don't see the problem for america really it is a huge country that is not so densley populated as a whole. England on the other hand is heading for a disaster.

Answer 8

So what? My neighbor has a flat screen HDTV, huge in fact. It doesn't mean I break in to watch it.

And your price projections are truly uneducated.

Speaking of which, what is the cost of American citizens having failed education in ruined schools?

Answer 9

Too many words for us slow folks

Answer 10

Is there a question here or are you just on a crusade or something?