Is Bush the President of Mexico? How about the DR? Brazil?

Question

By the end of his Presidency he will have let about 10 million people enter the country illegally, about 3/4 of them from these countries and most of them desperately poor and among them a few million children.

The "number of children living in poverty" will have gone up about half a million by then.

But that doesn't mean Bush is causing people to BECOME poor unless he runs the economies of the countries those people CAME from (it would also require that they were middle class at some point when he began to control those economies).

If we stopped letting poor people come here there'd be about 5 million FEWER poor people and about a million and a half FEWER children living in poverty.

Let them come, kick them out - do whatever you're going to do about immigration, legal and otherwise - but STOP misrepresenting and immigration issue as an economic issue.

Answer 1

In the long run, we're not doing these poorer countries any favors by letting their people come here.

Mexico is so thoroughly corrupt, but no reforms are ever made because the U.S. acts like the stream release valve in a pressure cooker. Unless people in Mexico and Brazil get angry at their own governments, and clamor for change, these countries will have little incentive to make necessary reforms.

I'm glad you brought up the point of poverty. Some foreign nations try to embarrass the U.S. by citing poverty statistics. It's rather misleading, isn't it?

Answer 2

I'm not quite certain what answer you are looking for; however, I do not believe that America should be taking on this many people. We are becoming an overpopulated nation and can't even support our own natural citizens and their families, let alone millions of others. I'd rather send them back to their own countries and tell their leaders to quit being so greedy and help their own impoverished people. They need to create their own economic stability.

Answer 3

many of those 10 million people are the same people that have left and returned or that have went back to their country. So your numbers are misleading.

Answer 4

There is some truth in what you say, but it's an oversimplification and you know it.

Answer 5

I agree

Answer 6

He is co-president.