:wink: A friend sent this to me today, I thought it was worth sharing.
Any country whose culture and quality of life is so desperately low that its citizens are willing to risk death walking across burning desert sands for the chance to live in an Orangeburg County mobile home is obviously a hellhole.
But don't take my word for it. A Pew Research Center poll found that more than 40 percent of all Mexicans would flee their homeland for the United States tomorrow if they got the chance. Around 20 percent of all Mexicans would sneak in illegally just to get the hell out.
So I will concede that I have about as much admiration and respect for Mexico's economic and cultural achievement as the people of Mexico do. But let's say, for the sake of discussion, that I were a multiculturalist and believed all cultures are equal. Let's say that I agreed it was time to stop mocking modern Mexico and start learning from it. Here are three places I'd be willing to start:
"Doing Jobs the Natives Won't Do." Illegal alien advocates insist that Mexicans crossing our borders illegally are doing America a favor by "taking jobs Americans won't do." Well, if that's the Mexican definition of neighborliness, why don't we Americans return the favor and sneak into Mexico to do the jobs they won't do. Like, for example, creating actual jobs in Mexico?
Here in the evil, racist United States, about 13 percent of our population lives below the poverty line. In kindly, compassionate Mexico, that number is at least 40 percent. And that number is artificially low because about 5 million to 6 million of Mexico's poorest and least educated citizens live illegally in America. So our poverty rate would be even lower, and Mexico's higher, if more Mexican citizens were willing to live in their own country.
"I Am Not a Criminal!" Another popular idea from Mexico, that merely being in the United States illegally isn't actually illegal รพ er, or something like that. OK, so let's adopt Mexico's approach to illegal immigration and border security. You know, show the illegals a little love, South of the Border style. First, we'll station the military along our southern border (like Mexico), then we'll make illegally entering the United States a crime (like Mexico), and then we'll immediately capture and deport all illegal immigrants (like Mexico). Feelin' the love yet?
Then let's treat the Mexicans protesting our government in our streets the same way foreign protesters would be treated in Mexico City: rounded up, arrested and either jailed or deported. Mexican law forbids immigrants, including legal ones, from participating in the political process in any way. Can you say "don't pick up the soap" in Spanish, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy?
"Just Looking for a Better Life." Convincing Americans to emulate our Mexican neighbors and flee our own country for "a better life" isn't going to be easy. Other than meth lab technicians and wildly unsuccessful hookers, what American (not currently evading extradition) would rather live in Mexico?
How can we change that? How can we make America the kind of country 40 percent of its own citizens would want to leave?
Simple. Let illegal immigration advocates turn it into another Mexico.
