What can Mexicans do to improve living conditions in Mexico?
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I agree with you. I believe that one of the reasons the country is so poor and undeveloped is because instead of educating themselves they put all their energy into leaving the country.
I have no problem with Mexicans or any other immigrant as long as they come here legally and learn our language and follow our rules as the legal citizens are required to do.
They need to educate themselves and have the desire to make their country more livable. For starters, learn agriculture so they can grow their own food to eat and/or sell. Learn construction so they can build suitable housing with necessary plumbing for good health and hygiene.
I think it would be smarter for the USA to channel funds into Mexico to help them...as in a loan...than it is for us to give them numerous perks such as free medical, welfare, etc that we don't even give our own legal citizens. We would definitely have fewer illegals here and the ones that do come here should be made to deal with the same set of beaucracy rules that everyone else does.
The loan to them for help should not be for medical, welfare, etc... but for the government to allocate so much for each household for education with the stipulation that they remain in their own country for a certain number of years to use what they have learned to help others in some way.
OK, I am climbing down off my soap box now.
This is a very controversial and Stimulating topic.
Thank you for the question!
Go back for starters
First they have to go back there.
Don't know what they can do after that, but it's a start.
dream on, how can you improve life in a desert, you can't
For the 10millionth time...it's not that they are unwanted, it's that we want them to do it legally.
Also, what they can do is fight for their country and make it what they want like we did.they haven't and wont which is why Mexico is the way it is and why we a leary of letting those who refuse to fight for their own country sneak in here and get a free ride.
nobody listens to them. you asked this question before, you need to go read a book.
get rid of all you politicians would be a good start
get new government
They have demonstrated against the American Government in large numbers numerous times.
Sounds like a starting point, and you know that our press would just be tickled to report on that.
Mexico needs infrastructure desperately, we visited and the possibility for tourism is great and not only in the obvious places such as Cancun, San Miguel de Allende etc. They need good roads, running water everywhere and upgrades to electrical systems to withstand factories and business growth. Education needs to be made a major priority, the only way for Mexico to become stronger is if they invest in education so that their citizens can compete for more than labor jobs. It makes more sense to volunteer to fix the problems in Mexico than import them into the US.
The biggest issue(s) that I see is infrastructure and education. Corruption goes without saying and will be difficult to deal with but over time it to can be stopped (well controlled, we have corruption also).
Without sarcarsm, all the ILLEGALS should go there. If they don't mind being used as a cheap source of labor, the ILLEGALS can go to Mexico and help build for them as they have helped build so many things for the U.S.
While we do appreciate the effort put into the work, we don't appreciate the ILLEGALS sticking around after the job is done. Now, they can do some volunteer work to make up for the fact that they are not here legally or stealing someone else's SS# to pay taxes.
Although Mexicans make up a large percentage of illegal immigrants, they are not the only illegals here. So apparently, more than just Mexico needs to be fixed.
They would first have to take back their country from the drug dealers, corrupt police and even more corrupt government.
It would take a national revolt of all citizens. Those illegally in America would have to go home and fight for their country.
They do not seem willing to make the sacrifices. It is much easier to just run and hide in the US.
Stop crying over the US SW. Santa Ana lost the war, we paid for the land, Mexico accepted the cash. Done deal.
Mexicans need to better their country one person at a time.
Illegally Invading the US is not the answer.
The Mexican government is very corrupted. A new government would be the best start. Mexican people have no education because they do not have free public schooling like the US does. Mexicans have to pay tuition to go to school, and if you are poor then you usually end up uneducated.
Do not have kids until you can afford it. This is without the help of any government assistance.
Start calling Southwestern US their land and then move there.
I've lived in Mexico for ten years and worked with numerous charities and cultural exchange programs. I've come to realize that the immigration problem (and other problems) took five hundred years to develop, so I've stopped looking for easy answers.
I know dozens of Mexicans that have gone north looking for work, most often as illegals. None of them wanted to go, to leave their family, home, culture, risk their lives, risk jail. But it is not as terrifying as the inescapable abyss of the poverty they face here.
Ironically, Mexico is not a poor country. It is above the World average in terms of GDP per capita (Mexico $10,700, World $10,200, USA $44,000 source CIA World Factbook). So where does the money go? Not to the people who sneak into the US. It goes to the ones who are already rich!
In Mexico the top 20% of the population receives 55% of all earnings and the bottom 20% receives 4.3%. So, for each $10 earned in Mexico, only $0.43 goes to the typical blue collar worker. (Source: INEGI)
One part of the problem has been the impact of the Free Trade Agreement in Mexico. There are two good examples, corn and sugar.
Corn growers in the US are subsidized enough to make it cheaper to import corn in to Mexico than to grow it locally. The small farms go out of business first, adding to the poverty. The farmers take their families to the city to look for work but they have no skills and no education. The mother might find some work sewing but it's not enough to feed the family and put the kids through school. The father gets depressed and angry, starts to drink, beats his wife and kids. Then the older boys in the family get the idea to go north and look for work in the US.
I know these people. I've been to their homes. I've held their babies. I've watched them cry.
The story of sugar is about the same. Mexico used to have a thriving sugar industry. There where about 87 working sugar mills in Mexico in the 1980's. Now there are about 8-10 (not sure about this number). Part of the problem goes back to the corn subsidies in the US. The subsidies lower the price of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). That makes it cheaper to import HFCS than to use local sugar in soda pop (Coke, Pepsi, etc.)
So, the farmer goes out of business...
US corn subsidies in 2005 were $9.4 billion. Your tax dollars at work.
I'm not blaming the entire immigration problem on corn subsidies! Please don't misunderstand. It's just one factor of a much larger problem.
As I said at the beginning, the "problem with Mexico" took five hundred years to develop. It will probably take several generations and a lot of work to solve.
God help us all.
They should change their own goverment instead of messing around with our country.
Why don't you set a meeting with the Mexican government and try to negotiate things ! Hmmm, sounds like a good idea !
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