What makes Mexico such an awful place to live in that their citizens are desperate to escape to the USA?

Question

Why don't they stay in their own country and rally for their rights instead of bringing all of their problems to the US? Why do they think that stealing from the US is acceptable?

Luis R, thank you for your polite reply, but I didn't say that the Mexicans in Mexico were bad people - just trying to understand why they aren't working to clean up their own country. Those crossing the border to the US illegally are criminals because they have entered the US without permission and costing the US taxpayers billions of dollars. Many Mexicans are here legally and are paying taxes just like the rest of the US citizens, but unfortunately, the illegals have created such a drain to our country that they are making the taxpayers become racial toward Mexicans because we can't tell who is legal and who is illegal. If you are in the US legally, then you can help your country - USA - to keep from having the same problems as Mexico by helping us to enforce the laws by identifying illegals and reporting them to ICE. A sovereign country is a safe country with borders and laws. People who break the law are criminals.

Answer 1

Their government is corrupt. The nation has abundant natural resources. The government and the wealthy elite care not about the poor. The government actually encourages the exodus to the US. Estimates are $30 to $50 billion dollars are sent back to Mexico annually by illegal aliens in the US. Where do you think that money eventually goes? Into the hands of the government and wealthy elite.
The view there is RICH US, poor Mexico. They have, we don't. The philosophy is covetous.
It is past time the US, the UN and other nations bring pressure on Mexico to start improving conditions there for it's poor. It is not a matter of 'can't' but of they 'won't'.
The Mexican government and elite do not want true assimilation to the US by the illegal aliens. If they woke up and realized where their bread was truly buttered, they'd strive harder to be here legally and stop running back and forth and sending money back. It is better for Mexico for them to bite the hand that feeds them.

Answer 2

The answer is poverty.

The poverty is the culprit .

Because a country is poor whereas another one is rich? .

In order to know internal of the country is necessary it to study the organisation.

It is necessary to study the history of that country.



As a country can leave the poverty?

In order to respond it is necessary to study Sociology, Economy

Also it is necessary to study that it has happened in countries that have left or are leaving the poverty like Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Korea, China,….

Why in Cuba there is no the same misery that in the countries of his around?.
At least, not it same class of misery.

What is happening in countries that do not leave the misery? For example in Zambia, in Senegal, or Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Honduras, El Salvador,….

Is leaving the poverty Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador…. ?

Finally, what is happening in Mexico?

If the subject interests to you, there you have a good program of work.
You will be entertained a good tried short while to answer these questions.

Answer 3

The people who cross the border illegally can tell you as many horror stories as any other 3rd world refugee. They don't have clean water, food, places to live or sanitary facilities. To ask them to change their plight is not an option for them. They have no influence in government. It is like asking a homeless person in the US to change Washington DC. The government is more than glad in Mexico to be rid of the riff raff.

Answer 4

They don't have checks and balances on their government like we do (haha...at least the illusion of checks and balances). The Mexican government has been corrupt for years - and I mean hundreds of years. This has allowed the powerful to become more powerful, the rich to become richer, and the poor to become poorer. It's a sad situation. Still doesn't mean that I should have to support them with my tax dollars, though. When your government is oppressive and corrupt, you should work for change - no matter how difficult. That goes for all countries.


To the idiot up there (rotten-corpse) who said the U.S. "steal" the land from Mexico:

YOU'RE WRONG.

~TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO.
~GADSEN PURCHASE

GO READ SOME HISTORICAL FACT. MEXICO DIDN'T EVEN PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE LAND NOW KNOWN AS THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST UNTIL THE TEXANS - INCLUDING MANY MEXICANS - DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO BE INDEPENDENT OF MEXICO. ON TOP OF THAT, MEXICO RECOGNIZED TEXAS AS AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC UNTIL THE U.S. DECIDED TO ANNEX TEXAS. ONLY THEN DID MEXICO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE TERRITORY. CALIFORNIA HARDLY HAD ANY MEXICAN GOVERMENT OR MILITARY PRESENCE AT ALL.

LAND WON IN A WAR OR HANDED OVER BY TREATY OR PURCHASED IS NOT "STOLEN".

YOU'RE BRAINWASHED BY LULAC AND AZTLAN. THEY'RE WRONG. GO READ THE HISTORY BOOKS.

Answer 5

How do you expect them to fix their own country when they are too poor to? The rich are rich and the poor are poor. There is no middle ground. All of mexico's money is owned by 1% of the population...while the rest of mexico must get buy on the one dollar a day they make working in the fields etc....they can't afford to take the time off work to protest against their own country and it's laws when they need to put food on the table and take care of their children!!


P.S. There is no excuse for racism. Just because most of the illegals are mexican doesn't give any american the right to discriminate against LEGAL mexican americans. That's right, you can't tell the difference between legal and illegal and in that case you need to treat everyone with respect until you know otherwise. If not, then you are making it a race issue.

Answer 6

It's a moral question. The economic problems follow the moral ones.
The top 5% of the population controls 70 plus % of the total wealth in Mexico. The corruption, drug culture, and lack of a moral core to their society allows the average Mexican to pretty much do anything they feel like doing (to anybody) and do so with no guilty concience, no social stigma, and little legal consequences. Just about anything goes in Mexico, (especially if it makes a buck).
Ex: all the American touristas that go to Mexico to indulge in a little of that anything-goes culture=the drugs, Taquilla, prostitutes, you name it, they do it.
It is a moral problem.

Answer 7

Because I grew up on the border & did business in Mexico, the main problem is their culture of corruption & privledge. Mexico is one of the most racist countries in the Western Hemisphere... Watch Mexican TV & count the number of dark skinned people you see there.
The Peons are kept in a near feudal arrangement by the Europeans to provide them with something approaching slave labor. Throw in the culturally ingrained right to extract bribes by government officials & business transactions become very expensive there. When a person gains power within the government, they immediately begin to take land & property from those with the least power... indians/peons.
What amazes me is the number of Mexicans that come to the US & want to institute the same type of cultural arrangement they escaped. In the past I had to accept the position of "Patron" to Mexicans that worked for me... that has both obligations & privledges that I found difficult to escape, but their culture seemed to demand it.
Of course you have the radicals that hate Europeans & especially Gringos because of how they were treated in Mexico... but they confuse Americans with those in Mexico that kept their foot on their necks for most of their lives.

Answer 8

wait a minute that's got to stop this is a free country don't get me wrong yes they do need to pay taxes but i heard alot our taxes paying there way WHAT about the white ,black , and everyone else from a different place, who is not working and getting money for sitting on the lazy a$$. all i hear is oh i won't work for less than 9.00 or 10.00 dollars an hour that ******** at least your working paying taxes and getting help that's ok then. I work hard for my money just to help everyone else, just barely getting by with no help.At least the ones from mexico do work and don't sit around waiting for free money ( we all need a little help here and there) they need stop picking on just mexico.

Answer 9

Many of them are from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua etc. they had to enter Mexico illegally first

Answer 10

Like in Haiti they think our streets are paved with Gold ready for the pickings.Mexico they get money sent home every week.Cars to drive free health ins, all social services,Payed more in 1 day than they make in a week or month.Nice houses to live in Chance to get amnesty an a free pass to green cards OOPS i forgot we stopped the shamnesty Bill i guess it will get harder each day.I guess it time to Close the border & enforce our laws.