The Mexican government has decided that a dysfunctional economy is no longer motivation enough for its people to head north. It’s recently put out a32-page pamphlet on how to jump the border and avoid getting caught. That’s got to be a great feeling, knowing your government actually wants you to get out of the country: “We’re too greedy and stupid to provide economic opportunities for you, but please accept this informative brochure as a token of our esteem.”
Anyone know of a link to the actual pamphlet? I’d really love to read it firsthand. I wonder if it comes with a free bumper sticker of Calvin peeing on “La Migra”?
If the U.S. government were smart, it would publish a 32-page pamphlet entitled “Peasant Uprisings: Mexico’s Path to a Brighter Future” in all the various and colorful languages of Mexico’s countryside, and drop them from airplanes.
If the US Govt was really smart, they’d print lots of leaflets saying “California’s economy can’t survive without Mexicans prepared to take shitty jobs for low pay”, accompanied with detailed explanations of a brand-new work-permit scheme.
That’s facing reality. As is the leaflet in the link, as far as I can see from the description. Such advice as "“Don’t throw stones or objects at the officer or patrol vehicles because this is considered a provocation…raise your hands slowly so they see you are unarmed” surely can only be interpreted as an attempt to keep people from putting themselves in danger?
Anyone want to check to see if those pamphlets aren’t getting financial support from American companies that hire illegals, such as those working in meat processing or fruit picking?
“This pamphlet made possible due to generous contributions from Tyson Foods.”
The chief job of ANY government it so keep its citizens safe. Sending information to its citizens who may be making the trek in the hopes that it cuts down on injured/killed citizens would fall in-line with keeping its citizens safe, IMO.
I’d like to know what information in the pamphlet passed for “…advice on living unobtrusively in the United States.” Though I have a hunch that it mostly serves to keep mexican immigrants from getting their asses killed in America.
Looks like another non-issue to me. The Mexican government is just trying to do their job and save the lives of their citizens.
Yep! Always remember, as rjung endlessly pontificates, that no matter what the wrong or crime, it is always the fault of, or emanates from, something in, about, or on the part of the United States.
If I hear this fairy tale one more time, I’m gonna puke.
How do you think the houses got built and the floors got swept before the illegals came? An army of robots? No, somehow we managed to get those things done within the law, and yet housing was affordable and the public schools had enough money to actually function.
Illegal immigration has nothing to do with California’s economy and everything to do with Mexico’s.
There’s an absolutely foolproof way for Mexicans to eliminate their risk of encountering danger in the United States, and I know you and Vicente Fox know what it is.
You’re right; a poor illegal immigrant family with eight kids in a public school who need to be taught English as a second language in addition to all the normal subjects certainly has an impact on the economy.
…and we all had unicorns to ride and lived on magic pixie dust and milk of ambrosia.
Sorry, but the last time California had a functional economy that was not based on the exploitation of quasi-legal immigrants was when the primary industries in the state were acorn farming and log-hut construction. When it wasn’t Mexicans, it was Southern blacks looking for a new start in the naval shipyards during and just after the war. Before them, it was poor Oakies fleeing the dustbowl. Before them, it was the Chinese and the Irish. And so on and so forth, all the way back to the original illegal immigrants to the region: the Spanish. Who, despite the demagogery of the intervening centuries, were the only immigrant group that actually threatened to destroy the pre-existing culture of the area.
I have to cry foul on this too. Mass immigration just can’t go on forever, and other solutions to labor propblems must be found. Our population is surging in the Southwest, exactly the region that has water supply problems and whose population centers are hopelessly sprawled out, encouraging only automobile transport, and dependent on the continued flow of absurdly cheap oil.
Well, you’re either blind, dumb, deaf, stupid, ignorant, or just plain crazy. Maybe even a high degree of all of the above. All of those menial immigrant jobs get done by immigrants because you can’t pay whitey to do the job for $4 per hour.
Yes indeed, there are jobs that Americans won’t do.
Errrrr, did you miss my whole point, that of creating legal immigration? And in any case, do you really think that no child of a legal migrant under the current structure has any problem speaking English?
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Blame the immigrants on California’s car-dominated economy!! Brilliant!!!
Seriously - yes, it’s not a magical and permanent solution. And no, I’m not an expert on the Californian grey economy. But it’s one of many examples (and yes, I can name them in Britain too) where it would be much easier to offer some kind of amnesty, to bring people back into the bureaucratic mainstream.
Since you are the one making the assertion, why don’t ***you ***do the checking and tell us what you come up with? Or would you rather, as is your M.O., just throw some inflamitory trash out there and hope it sticks? …kind of like providing a fake quote to back up your baselss claim.
From the OP’s link, I found this quote especially disturbing:
Would you condone the actions of the US government if it issued a pamphlet to US citizens travelling in S.E. Asia on how to safely smuggle drugs into the countries of that area where drug possession can be a capital offense?
Advice on how to behave appropriately when dealing with (for example SE Asian) customs officials, advice on the particular hazards of heavily-policed border areas, and general common-sense suggestions are par-for-the-course for governmental foreign department advice.