What is so bad about Mexico that so many Mexicans immigrate to the US?

Question

How can Mexico be fixed?

Answer 1

What is bad about Mexico is not Mexico, is the small percentage of people that control Mexico's economy and distribute the wealth between them self, less than 10 % of the population. Poor are every day more poor and the rich are more wealthy. The contry is a dump and the Mexicans rather immigrate into the USA and love Mexico from a foreign country than to fight for it and then they call them self patriotic Mexicans... AND.... talk about how pretty and beautiful Mexico is but seeing it from the USA and would rather died or go to jail than to go back to Mexico. How could you fix Mexico I ask you because no body knows.

Answer 2

Hello,

1) I think people try to go where the work and decent wages are.
As an analogy (Canada) I grew up in Nova Scotia. That had a poor economy over the years and you got no great jobs without connections etc. I migrated to Alberta where there was a big oil industry, shortage of labour and good wages; at least I have my own home and never leave it without my Amex!

2) It would take pages to explain but some Mexican lawyers, teachers and other professionals I know said that unlike the English America, Mexico and much of Latin America have not shed their old colonial vestiges from Spain so there are real class distinctions there between the upper crust and the so called n word types. In the US and Canada, whenever I meet someone like a professional, whenever I say hello Professor Jim or Dr. Marietta etc they automatically say, oh Michael, please call me Jim, just call me Marrieta! In Mexico and some parts of Europe when a person is introduced by their title one expects you to be in awe or kiss their feet if a notch above you on the pecking order. All in all, this attitude is creating a poor atmosphere I have been told and many things will not change until there are attitude adjustments socially.

Regards,

Michael Kelly

Answer 3

The average Mexican is up a creek.They have a government that only caters to the rich paler Mexican and an AlQueda type group that threatens and murders them on a daily basis.Mexican peasants and farmers are a targeted group by both.I don't think either one is good for Mexico but we don't have much of a choice.At least some of these people make it here with their lives.If our government and Mexico didn't have an oil deal we would invade Mexico much like Iraq for humanitarian purposes.So these same people who are here now would be here no matter what except as refugees.

Answer 4

The government must be held accountable for their actions and be more representative of its people. They must understand that they are working to better the country, not their own lives. This is the responsibility of the people of Mexico. They must demand change and implement it. The country has vast amounts of beautiful land with immense natural resources. They have no reason to be poor. There are a couple of things I would do to make the situation better. I may be way off but I think it could work.
1) Increase the salary of Police Officers so that there is no economic necessity to engage in corruption against the population.

2) Make it treason for ANY government official to engage in acts of corruption and ENFORCE the law.

3) Diversify industry and toss aside the dependece on oil for revenue.

4) Make it easier to set up small businesses in Mexico by getting rid of unnecessary bureaucracy.

5) Make every Mexican pay taxes there is a large percentage of the population that does not pay taxes.

6) With this newfound revenues sponsor state programs and increase exponentially the budget for education to gain a competitive advantage in the global market.

7) Invest heavily in all aspects of infrastructure this will in turn create a lot of jobs for the population.

Anyway probably easier said than done right? But a step in the right direction

Answer 5

The basis of opportunity denial, poverty and desperation in Mexico is largely racial.

Racially, Mexico is where the US was with Black citizens 60 years ago. "Indian"-descended Mexicans, versus Euro-descended, are discriminated against, and their fate sealed, from birth. If a dark-skinned ethnic -looking Mexican wants to get ahead in life, he MUST leave Mexico.

This is something Americans, as a whole, know zero about. They think a Mexican is a Mexican. But as with any culture, any small place where prejudice and the making of outcasts can take a foothold, it will.

Think of the untouchables of India, or US Blacks during the 30s, and you have an inkling the prejudice that kills which these people face.

Answer 6

As I understand it, Mexico faces a number of problems, the most obvious of which is 'poverty,' which is really just the inevitable symptoms of the other problems, such as government corruption, and an endemic racism that divides and stratifies it's society.

Such problems can only be fixed from within. America could stop being an 'enabler,' though, by enforcing it's immigration laws more zealously.

Answer 7

The Mexican government is so corrupt. They do not seem to have any concern about their less fortunate citizens. The country has been ruled by the same group for the last 150 years. Those that have the money keep it. If you want to make decent money you to have to be corrupt. Outside of Mexico City there doesn't seem to be anything available for the less fortunate to make a financial success of their lives. So they go to the US. Follow the money.

Answer 8

Mexico must fix the fact that most people are in poverty. Their government is corrupt.

The problem I see is the fact that people, including the Mexican government, keep talking about AMERICA fixing Mexico. That's not our responsibility.

Answer 9

What's so bad about it is that there is nothing over there. Depends on what part they're coming from. They have shitty jobs hardly get paid for anything. They can exceed way further here in the US than they can there in Mexico. How can it be fixed? Not really sure about that one...

Answer 10

Their corrupt government takes the citizen's money and let their people live in poverty and squalor. However, I feel the people of Mexico need to take back their country and make it a better place for them to live and raise their families there.