In a recent report, The Tucson Citizen featured a story which highlighted the lack of interest in stopping illegal immigration on the Mexican Side of the Border.
Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said Mexico needs to accept greater responsibility for controlling illegal immigration and that it succeeded in discouraging people from crossing into Arizona last month when members of a civilian volunteer group monitored a 23-mile stretch of border near Naco.
Kyl pointed to Mexican military and civilian authorities who were near the corridor monitored by the Minuteman Project, the volunteer group posted at the border throughout April to report illegal immigration to federal authorities. The group claimed that its work led to 335 apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Kyl said he heard reports that the government-sponsored Grupo Beta agency, which patrols along Mexico's northern border and aids Mexicans stranded in the desert, warned Mexicans against crossing in the area monitored by Minutemen, fearing that the group would hurt migrants.
"Mexicans didn't come across there," Kyl said. "What that demonstrates obviously is that the Mexican government could be very effective in helping us stem illegal immigration if it wanted to, but obviously they have not wanted to do that."
But why is it that Mexico doesn't want to keep it's citizens in their own country? Why is it that they are actively helping people sneak across the border or re-directing them to places where they would stand a better chance of getting into the USA unnoticed?
More than any other state in recent years, Arizona has been flooded with illegal immigrant traffic since the U.S. government tightened enforcement in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego during the mid-1990s.
The Mexican government has said it can do nothing to prevent people from crossing into the United States because Mexican law allows the nation's citizens freedom of movement within their borders. Once they cross into the United States, they are no longer under Mexican jurisdiction.
However, the Mexican government has stepped up arrests of smugglers who thrive in Mexico, and it has launched several campaigns in recent years aimed at advising migrants of the dangers of crossing illegally, especially along the Mexico-Arizona border.
Some of those campaigns have been criticized in the United States as encouraging illegal migration. The Mexican consul general in Phoenix declined to comment.
These campaigns "aimed at advising migrants of the dangers of crossing illegally" should be criticized because what they do is tell Mexicans how to get into the US safely. They produce videos and comics showing people how to dress, what to take, and where to go to get in safely. They aren't trying to stop the flow, these programs are aimed at making it more a successful practice.
Kyl said the Mexican government could send forces or Grupo Beta to known staging areas such as Altar to stop people from going north.
But Kyl said he expects the Mexican government will do nothing to dissuade migration.
It's in Mexico's interest to promote illegal immigration because it relieves the country's poor economy and high unemployment and also provides a huge amount of repatriated money, billions of dollars that migrants send home annually, he said.
"The reality is that you could have that same amount of repatriated money if you had legal employment here, and relief of Mexico's unemployment situation" without being a detriment to the United States, Kyl said.
This is the real reason that Mexico will never step up to the plate and help end the practice of illegal immigration into the United States.
The American Resistance reports:
$60 billion dollars are earned by illegal aliens in the U.S. each year. One of Mexico's largest revenue streams (after exports and oil sales) consists of money sent home by legal immigrants and illegal aliens working in the U.S. Economists say this will help Mexico reduce its $17.8 billion defecit and may bolster the peso. $10 billion dollars are sent back to Mexico annually, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, reported in an Associated Press article, up $800 million from the previous year. That figure equals what Mexico earns annually from tourism. This massive transfer of wealth from America - essentially from America's displaced working poor - goes directly to Mexico.
Here is the REAL reason that Mexico won't lift a finger to help stem the flow of illegals into America. It's simply too profitable for them to allow it to continue since it is a $10 BILLION dollar a year "industry."
But think about the numbers there for a moment. $60 billion a year is earned in the United States by people who have no right to live or work here while 36 million American families are considered impoverished. If you take the 13 million illegal immigrants out of the workforce, we could put 1/3rd of those families into jobs that would result in more tax revenue, and less dependence on welfare and take steps to grow our economy and reduce the almost $1 Trillion dollars we're spending on welfare and entitlements this year.
But so long as the money wires are pumping over $10 BILLION dollars a year into Mexico's economy, we'll never see Mexico take steps to stop illegal immigration.
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