Mexican Ambassdor Urges Immigrants to Apply for Citizenship Now

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Originally Posted by mountainrose

Exactly -- Mexican remittances from their immigrants here are their second largest resource after oil and gas.
Imagine if those multi billions of dollars stayed here in America.
They send their impoverished, their unskilled, their uneducated, and many of their criminals here.
Basically America subsidizes Mexico's poor.

There is also drug trafficking that is a huge source of income for the country. Some say its in top two or three largest sources of income. Its an export just like toasters and cars. Harms the US both by what it does to our people and the money flowing back to Mexico. And another reason the Mexican government does not want a wall and tighter border security.

[Jimmyp25]

What I find funny is during my wife's immigration citizenship ceremony (she is from europe). At the end of the ceremony the speaker went through the crowd and had each citizen stand up for the country they came from. They went through the entire list , and barely anyone was clapping or applauding . Then all the sudden when Mexico came around. The place erupted into a cheer with banging as if the home team just scored the last winning point.

[Oldglory]

Originally Posted by jackwinkelman

Mexican ambassador urges immigrants to apply for US citizenship | TheHill

So why is it that the Mexican Government is fine with millions of their citizens fleeing? Even Castro in Cuba with all his problems understood it was a disgrace for his people to flee the country.

And if you believe the left and the immigrants rights groups that these people are all hard working and valuable to society, how come they are not valuable to Mexico too?

The official unemployment rate in Mexico is 3.7% which would indicate a labor shortage.
Mexico Unemployment Rate | 1994-2016 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast

Mexico likes their poor and uneducated to come here illegally as they are a burden to them. They also like the remittances they send back to Mexico. You're right they aren't all hard working. All they need is an anchor baby or more and they can live off the welfare they get from them. Guess who gets stuck with that fiscal burden? They cost us $113 billion a year, loss of jobs and reduce wages for Americans.


They want amnesty for them so they will get a path to citizenship also. It all benefits Mexico not us.