Imigration in America

[Occhidiangela]

The happy border fantasy may be close to true between two states not generally screwed up -- the US and Canada-- but between a political/social basket case, Mexico, and the leading democracy and economy in the free world, America, such is not the case.

The idea is what, that Mexicans are exporting their political instability along with their workers?

Yes. But we get some payback, since the illegal arms trade going south is a problem for them. Fair trade, as I see it, a nice steaming pile of quid pro quo.

Send us your crooks and your overpopulation, we'll send you some guns to make your lives more interesting.

Beyond the drug trade is human trafficking, which is a dirtier, nastier problem in its own right.

Get rid of that, and your problems are controlled - so long as you like having relatively open borders. If not, then closing them is going to remain a problem, and illegal migrants will continue to find ways through.

No, so long as you have controlled borders, whatever the ease, or difficulty, in crossing them. Robert Frost: Good fences make good neighbors.

The question is what happens to *Americans*. I somehow doubt they get treated the same, if only because their reasons for being in Mexico illegally would have to be radically different.

Last I checked, about 500,000 American expats in Mexico, though that number has gone down per a State Department memo in the past year.

No, they do not get treated with the laxness Mexicans do here.

I am sure there are some Americans in Mexico illegally, most of whom are fugitives, and some of whom will not return. The Mexican government won't extradite them, due to their having commited capital crimes and the Mexican government won't extradite to a country with the death penalty.

From the land of Santa Muerta, that's a rich irony indeed.

Actually, it's sickening, far, far beyond the French harboring Polanski for all these years.

Occhi