Okay, let's step back from this highly-charged immigration issue and see what we can see.
The first thing that is obvious to me is that we DON'T have millions and millions of Canadians swimming across the Great Lakes or otherwise sneaking into the U.S. to pick lettuce and clean toilets for us. Why? Because Canadians are proud to live in Canada. They believe their country is beautiful and that they have a better culture up there than we have down here. Who cares if they are full of beer. They would feel it beneath their dignity to acknowledge it's better in the U.S. and so even though their national health system leaves some to be desired, they don't break the law to sneak across the border and overburden our medical infrastructure.
Mexico, on the other hand, has a government that SUCKS.
That's the whole problem in a nutshell. Face it. Mexicans are generally nice people, pretty smart people really, and if the Mexican government didn't SUCK, if they would provide for their own people, Mexicans wouldn't want to run away from that political hell-hole.
I don't know, can you name one single important contribution that the Great Country of Mexico has made to the world? I mean besides cheap labor, ufo sightings and those funky worms in the tequila bottles? That's because Mexico today is much like Egypt in the sense that whatever bragging rights they may have come from what somebody did in their country thousands of years ago. But one can be reasonably certain that today's Mexican and Egyptian leaders are not cut from the same cloth as the high-priests of the ancient High Civilizations in those countries. The civilizations which populated these regions in ancient times accomplished some rather astounding things, not the least of which was building awesome massive pyramidal structures, and in the case of Mexico, did it magnificently in impossible terrain.
Now, Canada has no such ancient history. They, like us, are relative newcomers to their land. And they, like us, slowly are developing their own culture, with significant accomplishments in the sciences, medicine, architecture and the arts.
The reason the Mexican government SUCKS is not because they are a poor country. It's because they choose to see their own people as poor laborers, and are complicit in the illegal border crossings. At the same time, they perpetuate in their people a hatred for the gringo. Blaming the United States for Mexico's problems. If only America hadn't stolen the Southwest from Mexico, why things would be just fine. Like the Southwest was a dynamic and wealthy land laced with Interstates when the U.S. acquired it. Or how about this one? "We wouldn't be sneaking across your border with drugs if you American's didn't demand it." Hahaha! That's my favorite. Hey, Mexico, from what I can see, Americans are fully capable of producing our own illicit drugs right here at home, thank you. No. I am not into drugs; I gather this by the number of meth-labs which blow up in the States every year.
But I digress.
If the Mexican government didn't SUCK, Mexicans wouldn't risk their lives trying to get out. If the Mexican government didn't SUCK, all the glib Mexican-American professors at UCLA and other socialist universities in the U.S. wouldn't waste their time fomenting hatred for America and perpetuating the idea of another revolution among their chicano students. They'd go back to Mexico and be important figures in the country they love so much, and make mucho dinero at great Mexican universities. But they don't, and they can't. Because the Mexican government SUCKS!
If the Mexican government didn't SUCK, if it were better than the U.S. and Canada, hell, we'd be the ones who were sneaking down there. Oh, I don't mean flying down to those nice secluded resort areas like we do on vacations, I mean sneaking right across the border under the cover of night so we could steal all those high-paying white collar professional jobs in Tijhuana.
If the Mexican government weren't so arrogant, it wouldn't have the temerity to tell us what we can and can't do to secure our own borders. If the Mexican government weren't so corrupt, it would clean up its act and make Mexico a source of pride in North America. If the Mexican government wasn't so greedy, it would help relieve the energy problems in U.S. by shipping more of its vast oil reserves our way. If the Mexican government weren't so duplicitous, it would support the U.S. in the UN. If the Mexican government weren't so hypocritical, it would help the U.S. with clamping down on cross-border criminal activity. If the Mexican government was pro-American, perhaps we wouldn't mind the idea of open borders. If the Mexican government had any authentic pride, Fox wouldn't keep trying to con his "friend" George Bush out of his skivvies. With friends like Vicente, who needs enemies? Maybe Cheney should invite Fox on his next quail hunt.
Yup. That's the problem in a nutshell, the Mexican government SUCKS. And until that changes, this immigration problem ain't gonna go away. Methinks the Mexican-American professors at UCLA are right... it's time for another revolution. But not in Los Angeles... in Mexico.
