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Rob says, “Our President has proved time and again that pandering to the Hispanic vote in this country is much more important than respecting established immigration laws.”

I have to ask now: what’s to pander for anymore?  There are no more elections.  He can’t run for U.S. President again, and if he so chooses to run for governorship in Texas I seriously doubt he’d be penalized much for taking on the border issue. 

I hope that Bush realizes this and gets tough about closing up our porous borders to the south.

You’ll be waiting quite a while before you ever hear Bush criticize his blood-brother, Vicente Fox.  Illegal immigration is where Bush is the weakest and it doesn’t look to be getting any better.

The way that the issue of illegal has been approached by various Congressman and conservative political pundits has served to cloud the true purpose of this pamphlet.  The pamphlet does not propose that a Mexican citizen attempt illegal immigration; nor does it offer instructions on the manner in which immigration can be effecuated.  Rather, it simply explains the risks of immigration to those individuals who are already commited to it.  In fact, this pamphlet may serve to discourage those who try to cross the border because they will be aware the substantial risk that they may face in making an attempt.

[...] The problem is that Mexico’s solution is probably to hand out these brochures to all the criminals rounded up. [...]

Would be nice if our country took care of our people and not the Illegal Mexican people! After working in the trades since 1969 there is no work for me now as the jobs are taken by people who pay no taxes and take their kids to a hospital knowing we as AMERICANS will have to pay their bills at the hospital! We teach them in Spanish at the schools not English like our family members had to learn in the school! We are bringing 50,000 troops back from Germany and Korea well let’s pup them on the Mexican Boarder with their rifes!

Illegals should not come to the United States at all, but since they are here now, We should let them stay in the Southern states, which used to belong to them. I hate them last night I caught my white wife with one of those illegals in bed.  I am telling you.  They are taking over.

Illegals should not come to the United States at all, but since they are here now, We should let them stay in the Southern states, which used to belong to them.

Not to anybody alive today.

[...] And Please tell me where you found the Mexican government "printing brochures instructing illegals not only how to get into the US but then where to go for the most generous benefits." Is there a link or something? News?  http://sayanythingblog.com/2005/01/...al-immigration/ [...]

[...] Sadly, though, it seems as though the Mexican government is too busy encouraging these peoples to jump our border. [...]

[...] Also included is a special bonus insert on “How to Cross The U.S. Border” provided by the Mexican government. Consider it a gift from them to you. Along with the gift of cheap labor, plummeting wages, increased crime and a massive burden on the already-strapped welfare state. [...]

[...] Given that the Mexican government encourages illegal immigration to the United States as part of official policy I think it is safe to say that Mr. Guitierrez was just doing his job. [...]

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS NOT NEW, NATIVES USED TO CALL IT WHITE PEOPLE. You were like me, know your history, understand me through your past, i am not a threat to you, there is no difference between us. We are human beings. If you dont like something, try to change it in a possitive way, if you can’t change it, then change the way you think about it, IT ALL HAPPENS FOR A REASON. At least the pamphlet saved many lives, and perhaps made many mexicans knowledge the risk and chosed not to cross the boarder.

keep all the mexicans out. alls they are doing is takeing our money and not giving it back to the U.S. like they should be. they keep sendin it back to mexico.

Sure, the states USED to belong to mexico. They USED to belong to a lot of people. but AMERICA bought the stares fair and square, with MONEY, which mexico gladly accepted. Just because something used to belong to someone doesn’t mean it will always belong to them. America is America and Mexico is Mexico. It’s not as simple as "keep them out" or "let them in", but it’s not as hard as everyone makes it out to be. History always repeats itself. Illegal immigration will not cease. I can see why the mexicans, iraquis, chinese, etc, immigtate to the USA illegally, because sometimes they remain on the immigration waiting list for 20 YEARS! But you all have to realize- we don’t want mexican immigrants to erase their culture from existence. We just don’t want them taking over ours. Ben Franklin once said "great fences make great neighbors" (or something of the like.). Well, I fully agree. I can see both sides of the argument, that we as Americans, deserve our freedom and our own money and not have people who cheat their way into the system take it from our tax cuts because they want a cheap way out, and I can see WHY they want a cheap way out! Because their living conditions are so poor, they are faced with invading a country that is not their own, struggling to get the basic care they need to live and be happy.

But wait- this doesn’t seem like an America problem, that the Mexican people aren’t happy with living conditions… it sounds more like… A MEXICO PROBLEM!! EURIKA! MAAAAAAYBE Mexico should start caring for their own people! MAAAAAAAYBE they should whip their own country into shape! It must be pretty bad to know that SO MANY PEOPLE are dying to escape it. So why put all the pressure on US? I say the water should start boiling under MEXICO. Is the solution to Mexican poverty to make our own country equally poor? NO!

That’s where I firmly stand. This has nothing to do with the citizens, it’s none of they’re fault.. IT IS THE FAULT OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT! That is where the problem lies, and that is where it will stay if we keep averting our eyes from the real issue, continuing to bicker about history, instead of both Mexican and American rights. So there.

Dear Rob,

Perhaps I am still not yet appropriately desensitized to ignorant American attitudes on immigration and cultural hegemony to the point where I can appreciate your blog, but I can tell you that I love the way you managed to criticize the Mexican government’s attempt at harm reduction (I’m not even going to ask you what the state of the American economy would be without cheap Mexican labour), whilst still managing to refer to the Mexican women represented in the diagrams as one would pieces of meat. So which is it? Do you want your country to be immigrant free (so I must thus assume you are yourself 100% Native American), or do you just want hot immigrant ass? Can you really expect your president to comment on Mexican foreign policy in an intelligible way, when he refers to the Middle East in its entirety as “Islamia”? I INVITE you to contradict me via email, please, inform me in a factual manner, in full view of the history of American foreign policy (particularly as it applies to installing military dictatorships all over the world, and its effect on foreign economies), why your comments are not racist, sexist, ignorant, or otherwide uninformed, and I will concede that the American right has been correct all along. I will personally handwrite you a letter of apology. (ps. before you restate your final argument, regarding Mexico looking after its own, please read up on the history of global economics a little bit, as I believe you will find that no country is in itself completely autonomous - each system is influenced by countries it interacts with, and no one can deny the damage that the free trade agreement, the IMF and World Bank, and various other programs have done to countries like Mexico. Its really not so simple as you would suggest).

- S.

alright,we all know they work hard but they cheat wherever and whenever they can.HMO`s now require picture I.D.Mexicans are a horny bunch too-ever watch their TV?Jesus,or should I say,’Hey Zues’,stacked broads with legs up to here in tiny,really tacky dresses,and that music-it sounds like a highschool band practicing,the singers can`t sing-though I`m told they tell a great story.I have to listen to this crap at the construction site all day long-the Ramones have more musical ability.
Alright,they`re nice and polite,most of them,but their numerous offspring are often lazy,condicending and more than a little arrogant.America coddles the lazy unlike any third-world nation:foodstamps,free legal aid,the best medical care if your pregnant-a prgnant wife is a status symbole, it means the man is muy macho and has Cojones.
Want to catch them-send an immigration official to any Home depot in the land.Their own country does not work because of corruption-who`s fault is that? Oh,and by the way,we did not steal California or anything else of note from them-we bought it for 15 million dollars a century ago.that was when the dollar used to be worth something.Do we really need to import a lawless culture when we already have our own in Washington, D.C.?

I’d say they’re better off in Mexico, what with the discriminatory police, angry rednecks with shotguns, and corrupt politicians that seem to occupy the extreme southern states.

Relic: More like they bought it with swords, guns, smallpox-laced blankets and plastic beads, amirite? Oh wait, I guess they don’t teach that in American schools because that might make people seriously reconsider their fierce nationalism, silly me.