Jim Hlavac
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If Mexico remains the 3rd world hell that it is then we will never stop the flow of
immigrants from there. If we help develop Mexico then they will remain home to
build and luxuriate in their own land. The resources spent on guarding our
Mexican border would be better put to use in developing that nation so that our
border there will become like our Canadian border.
And what would it take to develop that nation? A serious one on one
intervention with all the political leaders in that country. We should develop a
direct teaching institute that would bring local, state and federal officials from
Mexico to America to show them how it it done. We should work to translate our
laws into Spanish. Most importantly, we must continually drive home the concept
that the State is not All Important.
The Mexican government needs to divest itself of its factories, banks, land,
oil industry and cease all business ownership in the name of the people.
The Mexican government must alter the system of land ownership to conform
to real estate laws and rights and obligations in the United States. The
Mexican government must inculcate a culture of respect for law, and eliminate
corruption. It is not enough that they say they are doing as best they can, "but,
hey, that's our culture." Their thinking must change.
There is no reason on earth that the Mexican people don't enjoy the same
standard of living as the people in the United States. Millions of Mexicans have
come here and proven that they can act just like Americans. That they can be
just as productive as Americans. That they can do and think like Americans. So
there is no reason that they can not do the same back in Mexico. There is
nothing that emanates upwards from the earth itself at the Mexican-United States
border that some how magically transforms poor desperate Mexicans into
reasonable, rational, peaceable and prosperous people on this side of the
border, and then just as magically transforms them back into fearful peasants on
the other side of the border.
The only hindrance to the development of Mexico is the semi-Socialist way of
thinking among those in power. Who state that there is goal is the Glorification
of Mexico and its people and history and culture. Well, if the glory of Mexico's
people, history and culture is one of enduring poverty and corruption and fearful
living at the hands of a despotic government than surely the Glory isn't all that
Glorious.
Where is the Mexican leader who will recognize the problem is the Mexican
system itself? They have been blaming the United States for two hundred years,
but have accomplished virtually nothing. Many Mexican intellectuals and
politicians argue that because they lost so much territory to the United States
during the Mexican Wars and the Revolution in Texas that they are now poor.
Do they really believe that? Had they kept that land, which is most of the
Southwestern portion of America, those people who ended up living there would
be just as impoverished and downtrodden as the people south of the current
border. And they would all still be trying to get into what would be a much
smaller United States.
Had Mexico seen the light which shone from across the Rio Grande back in
the 1840's they would have instituted similar measures of governance and law
and human rights and they would be just a rich and powerful. The border would
be like between Canada and the United States, instead of the heavily guarded
frontier keeping the mass of Mexicans who are voting with their feet.
The intellectuals and politicians of Mexico intone daily about how the people
of Mexico don't really like the United States and that we have been cruel and bad
to them. Yet millions of individual Mexicans clearly have no such beliefs. They
are determined to get here no matter what the cost, including risking their own
lives.
Mexico is like a sinking ship whose captain insists all is well and full steam
ahead, while as many passengers as possible are jumping overboard and
reaching for the help offered by a nearby ship. Then they are taking the rope
offered and throwing it back to their family and friends so they might escape, too.
There are now some approximately 3 to 7 million Mexicans in the United
States, no one is quite sure. The higher figure is nearly 8% of the people of
Mexico. When that percentage of a country's people flea than that country is a
failure.
And is the United States supposed to do nothing, in a vain effort to preserve
and support the culture of Mexico, but let in millions more Mexicans? Despite all
the so-called improvements in Mexico there is not one whiff of a lessening of
emigration.
immigrants from there. If we help develop Mexico then they will remain home to
build and luxuriate in their own land. The resources spent on guarding our
Mexican border would be better put to use in developing that nation so that our
border there will become like our Canadian border.
And what would it take to develop that nation? A serious one on one
intervention with all the political leaders in that country. We should develop a
direct teaching institute that would bring local, state and federal officials from
Mexico to America to show them how it it done. We should work to translate our
laws into Spanish. Most importantly, we must continually drive home the concept
that the State is not All Important.
The Mexican government needs to divest itself of its factories, banks, land,
oil industry and cease all business ownership in the name of the people.
The Mexican government must alter the system of land ownership to conform
to real estate laws and rights and obligations in the United States. The
Mexican government must inculcate a culture of respect for law, and eliminate
corruption. It is not enough that they say they are doing as best they can, "but,
hey, that's our culture." Their thinking must change.
There is no reason on earth that the Mexican people don't enjoy the same
standard of living as the people in the United States. Millions of Mexicans have
come here and proven that they can act just like Americans. That they can be
just as productive as Americans. That they can do and think like Americans. So
there is no reason that they can not do the same back in Mexico. There is
nothing that emanates upwards from the earth itself at the Mexican-United States
border that some how magically transforms poor desperate Mexicans into
reasonable, rational, peaceable and prosperous people on this side of the
border, and then just as magically transforms them back into fearful peasants on
the other side of the border.
The only hindrance to the development of Mexico is the semi-Socialist way of
thinking among those in power. Who state that there is goal is the Glorification
of Mexico and its people and history and culture. Well, if the glory of Mexico's
people, history and culture is one of enduring poverty and corruption and fearful
living at the hands of a despotic government than surely the Glory isn't all that
Glorious.
Where is the Mexican leader who will recognize the problem is the Mexican
system itself? They have been blaming the United States for two hundred years,
but have accomplished virtually nothing. Many Mexican intellectuals and
politicians argue that because they lost so much territory to the United States
during the Mexican Wars and the Revolution in Texas that they are now poor.
Do they really believe that? Had they kept that land, which is most of the
Southwestern portion of America, those people who ended up living there would
be just as impoverished and downtrodden as the people south of the current
border. And they would all still be trying to get into what would be a much
smaller United States.
Had Mexico seen the light which shone from across the Rio Grande back in
the 1840's they would have instituted similar measures of governance and law
and human rights and they would be just a rich and powerful. The border would
be like between Canada and the United States, instead of the heavily guarded
frontier keeping the mass of Mexicans who are voting with their feet.
The intellectuals and politicians of Mexico intone daily about how the people
of Mexico don't really like the United States and that we have been cruel and bad
to them. Yet millions of individual Mexicans clearly have no such beliefs. They
are determined to get here no matter what the cost, including risking their own
lives.
Mexico is like a sinking ship whose captain insists all is well and full steam
ahead, while as many passengers as possible are jumping overboard and
reaching for the help offered by a nearby ship. Then they are taking the rope
offered and throwing it back to their family and friends so they might escape, too.
There are now some approximately 3 to 7 million Mexicans in the United
States, no one is quite sure. The higher figure is nearly 8% of the people of
Mexico. When that percentage of a country's people flea than that country is a
failure.
And is the United States supposed to do nothing, in a vain effort to preserve
and support the culture of Mexico, but let in millions more Mexicans? Despite all
the so-called improvements in Mexico there is not one whiff of a lessening of
emigration.