Holiday in Mexico

12 Comments

1. 

   thats an interesting question………hmmm

   Comment by popperman — September 26, 2007 @ 4:36 pm

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   Sometimes Americans do work illegally in Mexico. They go there for the adventure or whatever.

   Comment by drshorty — September 26, 2007 @ 5:25 pm

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   7…maybe 8

   Comment by mars_23 — September 29, 2007 @ 4:16 am

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   An American illegally in Mexico, will not get free health care, low interest loans, schooling for kids or drivers license, but will be thrown in a rat hole of a jail for a long time.

   Comment by Ronnie j — October 3, 2007 @ 12:23 am

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   Just davy crockett I think

   Comment by gorge.busch — October 4, 2007 @ 2:39 pm

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   A lot more than get talked about.

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   The Truth about Immigration
   by Mickey Z. / December 12th, 2007

   Everything negative you’ve heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off another nation’s resources doesn’t go far enough in explaining the gravity of this ongoing crisis. Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists.

   If you don’t believe me, just ask any sweatshop worker in, say, Vietnam…

   The perfidious colonizers I refer to, of course, are the insatiable transnational corporations setting up camp all across the Third World. Whether it be Nike, The Gap, Wal-Mart, or any other taxpayer-subsidized bloodsucker, these crafty illegal aliens can’t be stopped by constructing a mere wall. They travel with impunity… on the wings of government subvention and cunning, relentless propaganda. Thanks to decades of conditioning, even the victims of these soulless migrants will voluntarily pay for the right to wear a shirt bearing their corporate logo.

   One would not be engaging in hyperbole to characterize these illegal invaders as “terrorists.” Forget color-coded alerts, staged arrests, and manufactured scares. Put aside those times you were forced to remove your shoes at the airport. As defined at Dictionary.com: “an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety” and/or an “intense, overpowering fear” characterize brand of the terror I speak of.

   While the corporate media obscures the real terror and trains its focus on the latest battle between Dubya and Osama (or the current villain of the day), the primary conflict on the planet remains unchanged: globalization from above vs. globalization from below.

   “Immigrants” like the World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and transnational corporations are elements of a mutant form of remote control imperialism. The United States doesn’t always have to send armies into other countries. It sends in Disney and McDonalds with the (usually) unspoken threat of military force backing them up.

   Globalization is not intrinsically a bad idea. Mutually beneficial global ties can be essential. As Michael Albert of ZNet has articulated, the goal should be to globalize equity not poverty, solidarity not anti-sociality, diversity not conformity, democracy not subordination, and ecological balance not suicidal rapaciousness. Novelist/activist Arundhati Roy adds: “In the present circumstances, I’d say that the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”

   Comment by Renegade — October 6, 2007 @ 1:53 am

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   the same number of american drug smugglers- i suppose

   Comment by bill — October 8, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

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   Actually!!!! and this is a good one… Mexico’s ex-president (vicente fox)… his grandfather was an illegal immigrant from the US who moved to Mexico…

   Comment by gbluebone — October 11, 2007 @ 7:53 am

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   Quite a few, there are over 1 million Americans that live and some work in Mexico.

   Comment by Daniel F — October 11, 2007 @ 10:17 am

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    I can think of drug, or human smugglers. That is the only thing I could think of.

    Comment by BBHEAD — October 12, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

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    None, mexico has very strict laws about work visas.

    Comment by Thomasina Paine — October 15, 2007 @ 3:36 pm

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    I don’t know who would want to go to Mexico legal or illegal but if it’s the illegal Americans I’d say maybe 7-8 helping with the drugs. Answer to second question my guess would be NONE

    Comment by tennsmiles50 — October 15, 2007 @ 11:12 pm

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