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On January 9th, at a press conference in Los Pinos (the Mexican White House), Fox administration spokesman Ruben Aguilar was asked about emigration.
Here is part of what he said,
“In some cases it [emigration] has to do with real problems of poverty, and in others it answers to other types of personal interest. Statistics reveal that a very, very high number of the persons who emigrate to the United Status had work in Mexico. They don’t emigrate to get a job, but they emigrate for another series of conditions also of a cultural character, because they hope for a better condition of life despite the fact that they had work here. They aren’t going because they don’t have work in Mexico."
Here's a study from the Pew Hispanic Center: Pew Hispanic Center: Pew Hispanic Center Report: Unemployment Plays Small Role in Spurring Mexican Migration to U.S. (http://pewhispanic.org/newsroom/releases/release.php?ReleaseID=37 - broken link)
The vast majority of undocumented migrants from Mexico were gainfully employed before they left for the United States, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released today. The report suggests that failure to find work at home does not seem to be the primary reason that the estimated 6.3 million undocumented migrants from Mexico have come to the U.S.
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• Unemployment plays a minimal role in motivating workers from Mexico to migrate to the U.S. Only 5% of the survey respondents who have been in the U.S. for two years or less were unemployed while still in Mexico.
Care to comment, ProLogic? In case you're having trouble following along, I'll spell it out. Ninety-five percent of those who illegally enter the US from Mexico were gainfully employed when they left. Do you still want to claim that they are coming here because they are starving?
You said yourself you weren't just talking about Mexicans and how you go post an article about Mexicans. Whats your deal?
Care to comment? Do you still claim that illegals come because they are starving? Do you still think illegals are forced to immigrate? Do you have anything of substance? Do you have anything at all?
I have read that as well; there are 'jobs' SOB, but the wages flat suck hence many people saying the hell with it and being illegals here.
Agreed. We see the same phenomenon where struggling Americans take private jobs in Iraq for several times what they could earn in the US. This in no way supports the claim that illegals are starving. That's a flat out lie, and it's one of the things that disturbs me most about the open-border crowd.
Really? If you haven't noticed most of Latin America is third world. People in Mexico live under $4.16 a day. Almost half of the population in Mexico is under poverty. I've seen first hand at starving people in Mexico, I go there every December. You have no clue. Have you not seen the 30 days where the border patrol volunteer got sent to Mexico?
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Plus a lot don't even use Coyotes.