What can we do as US citizens to make life better in Latin American countries better?

Question

What can we do to make life better there so they don't have to leave everything they have every known to make a dollar?

Answer 1

Great question, As citizens there is nothing much that we can do but vote and hope our goverment does something about, but I think in order to help Latin America there are 3 importat factors to deal with and they are:
1)CORRUPTION
2)EDUCATION
3)POVERTY
By eliminating this factors I think Latin America has a Great potential to enjoy a great economy and that none of its citizens have ever to migrate in huge amounts.

Answer 2

Most fail to realize that most immigrants coming in are young single males with "limited" skills (meaning no schooling and restricted to menial labor) with less to lose if they leave their families. What citizens can do (so many stray from the actual question here to state their own opinions) is vote/petition governmental leaders to bring in immigrants who can help change the future for the better, America or otherwise. Exchange students can come here for schooling (public schools in central/south america suck) through scholarships and private funding, giving back their country gifted minds and usable talents. If a citizen owns a business, he/she can help bring in an immigrant through temporary or seasonal work making money here and also being allowed to bring some back to their country.

Only a few ideas, i dont want to write a 500 page paper here. I know there are plenty of issues associated with immigration, but what good is complaining when action is what is needed for change? and has anyone forgotten the same heat and debate happened in the mid to late 1800s because of Irish immigrants? language is not an important issue. FACTS show that as generations go by, the children of immigrants speak less and less of the "old" tongue. How many people with german immigrant grandparents actually speak german at home or have problems with english?

Answer 3

EVeryone screams about outsourcing. I'd rather have the current criminal illegals kept at home by buying produce etc. that has been produced in say Mexico, than to have to deal with the negative complexity and disruption/crime caused by some of the visiting element here.
It is probubly too complex an issue to handle for our somewhat dweeby legislators and of course those that aren't dweebs are crooks and are in the pockets of the CEO sorts that are the main people responsible for the influx of illegals.

America had better wake up to these and other problems or America isn't going to be here today or tommorrow as it was in yesteryear. What will change is the high life for many or all of us, there will be less and less American Dreamism and by the looks of it, if you aren't starved off, educated/taxed down, you may very well end up terminated in your own bed by a inadvertent stray shot from the local gang bangers or mugged to death as you shop for all those low priced goods the illegals supposedly bring to us.

Answer 4

Why should we spend money for there to be a better life in "Latin American countries?" Isn't that the responsibility of those countries and their citizens? We have enough to worry about because to the illegal alien criminals here! Even if we made life wonderful there, these criminals would still come here.

We can't take care of the whole world.

Answer 5

Stop using drugs, stop giving foriegn aid that just winds up it corrupt officials and the hiearchy of the upper class and never filters down to the working class.
Put land mines and razor wire along the Mexican border to keep the USA from being a refuge and another s**t hole that it is already becoming. American politicians envy the hiearchy of Latin America

Answer 6

I would say be supportive, but the USA should not have to build and run nations for them, otherwise they may as well be another state. Most of the time all that happens its biting the hand that feeds them anyway.
How many who have benefited so much from the USA speak badly about it.

Answer 7

I think they need to step up. Just as we built this great country, they must do the same. The land on our side of the border is no different than on their side. Maybe we should all pick a country and move in for 5 years. Presto! Nice place! Then we all can move back. I somehow doubt they would keep it looking that way. :(

Answer 8

First bump off all the cartels and let Mexico take back their gov't, and run it like they should without any infulence from the cartels. That would be a great first start, and everything should start to fall into place??????

Answer 9

The entire country needs to be reformed to how it is set up now, it is not working. Only a certain section benefits from how Mexico is set up currently

Answer 10

Other than Mexico, arm them so they can overthrow Chavez and other corrupt leaders.

In Mexico, take away the guns from corrupt law enforcement personnel. Wait a sec.... they did that... didn't they?