My day as an illegal

Filed in Uncategorized by on June 13, 2007

Well, I’m here!!!! wooohooo and things are going great.  I don’t get why “them people” hate their country so much.  There is so much to see and do.  Sure it costs a little more for them to the same things I am doing.  40% more but what’s 40% to a person using Pesos?  These things are cheap!  You can get them anywhere quite honestly and they took my Bank of America card with glee.  Actually, they pointed at it and made the sign of the cross when they saw it.  I’m not sure what that was about, but no doubt they like me and my money! 

I can’t imagine why people want to leave this place.  This fact finding mission I am on courtesy of some very nice lobbyists is great.  I mean all the wonderful things you can do here in Mexico are endless.  Take for instance this resort.  It is teeming with people and I’m sure they could hire more.  My guess is though you can’t get these people to do the jobs that Mexicans don’t want to do.  I guess maybe some Costa Ricans or Belizeans will have to migrate here and steal ther jobs.

All they need to do is just speak English and they got it made out here.  I mean seriously.  I don’t understand why they don’t teach English to these guys. It would make better sense.  That is going to be the first thing I do when I get back.  

Note to self:  Try to make all of Mexico speak English

 Oh well that is all for today..

“huh?, No honey, don’t carry that! Are you crazy, have that Mexican lady do it!  She needs the money!”

adios!

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  1. Is Elizabeth Wenk down there with you?

  2. Hube says:

    Got news for you — Mexicans would want to migrate TO Costa Rica.

  3. jason330 says:

    Mathews,

    I had the same thought.

  4. Chris says:

    donviti just thinks he is being clever. Trying to be absurd in his mistaken belief that he is proving some kind of point. I suppose it would be a good one if Conservatives were making a claim that Mexicans would be much happier in Mexico. I am not aware of any conservative making such a claim. We all know that for most of Mexico life is not a bowl of cherries. There is a reason they want to work and/or live in America. But that doesn’t mean would should throw open the border and legalize illegals. There are people in many countries, far more poorer than Mexico and with added oppression elements. They should have just as much right to come here as the Mexicans do.

    Most conservatives are not anti-immigration. This country’s current government was founded by immigrants. Immigrants make this country the wonderful place that it is. But we need to know WHO is coming in, and they must follow rules like everyone else.

    So donviti, you went all the way to Mexico for some R&R, SHUT UP and relax. You are way too tense man.

  5. Rob Foraker says:

    A few facts……The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households.
    The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.
    34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of natives. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the uninsured since 1989.
    Immigrants make significant progress over time. But even those who have been here for 20 years are more likely to be in poverty, lack insurance, or use welfare than are natives.
    The primary reason for the high rates of immigrant poverty, lack of health insurance, and welfare use is their low education levels, not their legal status or an unwillingness to work.
    Of immigrant households, 82 percent have at least one worker compared to 73 percent of native households.
    There is a worker present in 78 percent of immigrant households using at least one welfare program.
    Immigration accounts for virtually all of the national increase in public school enrollment over the last two decades. In 2007, there were 10.8 million school-age children from immigrant families in the United States.
    Immigrants and natives have similar rates of entrepreneurship — 13 percent of natives and 11 percent of immigrants are self-employed.
    Recent immigration has had no significant impact on the nation’s age structure. Without the 10.3 million post-2000 immigrants, the average age in America would be virtually unchanged at 36.5 years.

  6. Rob Foraker says:

    Immigrants…AFRICA 21,500 Except:

    Egypt: 15,700

    Ethiopia: 12,100

    Nigeria: 8,750

    ASIA 7,875
    EUROPE 17,600
    NORTH AMERICA
    (BAHAMAS) 8
    OCEANIA 1,025
    SOUTH AMERICA,
    and the CARIBBEAN 1,350