Hypocritical Mexico is now building their own wall on border with Guatemala...press ignores

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The Inter-Press Sevice (IPS) is reporting that the head administrator of the Mexican Superintendency of Tax Administration, Raul Diaz, has confirmed that his government is building a wall in the state of Chiapas, along the Mexican/Guatemalan border.

The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.”

According to Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights, 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year.

Just as Mexican authorities have opposed the construction of a fence by the U.S., along our border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from the Guatemalan government.

The executive coordinator of the National Bureau for Migration in Guatemala, Marila de Prince, told a local newspaper: “It is not a correct measure being taken by the Mexican government.”

Erick Maldonado, executive secretary of Guatemala's National Council on Migrants said: “We are watching the Mexican government's initiative with concern because the migrants are in a situation of highest vulnerability, as demonstrated by the massacre in Tamaulipas, where five Guatemalans died.”

Maldonado said the wall “is going to make the migrants' situation worse, because to meet their needs they are always going to find blind points where there are no migration or security controls, which implies greater risks."

Vice-President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, said: “The walls are not the solution to the problems.”

The Catholic Church has been highly critical of U.S. treatment of illegal aliens, and one priest in Central America used the news of the Mexican wall to take another shot at the American people.

Father Francisco Pellizari, of the Casa del Migrante told IPS: “The dramatic increase in the cost of 'polleros' (human traffickers) and the corruption of the authorities is the result of the walls the United States plans to build and has built along the border. We can transpose the Guatemala case to this situation and the results will be the same.”

Peliizari said border walls “are supposedly intended to halt migration, but that hasn't happened. Instead they have triggered an economic hemorrhage and a shift in the migratory flow to inhospitable routes that lead to thousands of deaths.”

Of course, the U.S. press has completely ignored the story…They excoriate Americans for their desire to simply defend their own borders, but give Mexico a pass for building a wall to keep out illegal aliens.

http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/hypocritical-mexico-is-now-building-their-own-wall-on-border-with-guatemala-press-ignores

[twowls 217]

I blame Robert Frost.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Hypocrisy, thy name is Mexico--a state which repaid US' generosity of bringing it into NAFTA, despite of fears by many Americans that jobs would flee there (as it turned out, unfounded--due to Mexico's squandering its own opportunities) by pushing more of its own citizens illegally across the border....

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Mexico is doing it. Good reason for us NOT to do it. In what other ways do you want to be like Mexico?

Eliminate the economic incentive for illegals to be here. No fence needed.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Mexico is doing it. Good reason for us NOT to do it. In what other ways do you want to be like Mexico?

Eliminate the economic incentive for illegals to be here. No fence needed.

You mean eliminate the minimum wage and pay folks a dollar an hour, just like south of the border?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

You mean eliminate the minimum wage and pay folks a dollar an hour, just like south of the border?

No. Besides, Mexico also has a minimum wage.

I mean apply a tax to hiring illegal aliens that would absolutely bankrupt a company for employing them. Since it is a TAX, they would not be charged with a crime, would not need a trial and their property could be SEIZED to pay the tax. Make the RISK far higher than the benefit of hiring illegals...and it will not happen. Hire an illegal nanny? LOSE YOUR HOME!

We KNOW exactly, how to use the tax code to influence behavior. We use it to get people to buy cars, buy houses, insulate theor attic and change their windows. We use it to make them stop smoking, wear seat belts, lower the level of alcohol to be considered "drunk", or to buy certain things at certain times (tax free days just before school starts, for example, to boost clothing sales) But somehow we completely lose the concept on how to get people to do, or not do, things when it comes to hiring illegal aliens. Double

We also know that when there is no economic benefit to be here illegally, people will go home. Why is it that ALL of our politicians cannot grasp this concept?

The answer. They can. They DO. They do not WANT illegals to self deport. They WANT illegals here to be exploited for their own purpose. They will never go away.

They WILL build a fence. Why? Because it won't work and you get to pay for it. It WILL work to get some silly people to vote for certain politicians. There WILL be an amnesty. It won't work to eliminate illegals, more will have to come to take the former illegal's place (once legal, an illegal no longer has anything to offer an employer but can be replaced by another illegal) but the now legal immigrants will eventutally VOTE for another certain politician.