illegal immigration ( Archived) (361)

Natural resources: petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, timber

Exports - commodities:
manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton

Agriculture - products:
corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, dairy products; wood products

Industries:
food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism


Economy - overview:
Mexico has a free market economy that recently entered the trillion dollar class. It contains a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector. Recent administrations have expanded competition in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity generation, natural gas distribution, and airports. Per capita income is one-fourth that of the US; income distribution remains highly unequal. Trade with the US and Canada has tripled since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. Mexico has 12 free trade agreements with over 40 countries including, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the European Free Trade Area, and Japan, putting more than 90% of trade under free trade agreements. The FOX administration is cognizant of the need to upgrade infrastructure, modernize the tax system and labor laws, and allow private investment in the energy sector, but has been unable to win the support of the opposition-led Congress. The next government that takes office in December 2006 will confront the same challenges of boosting economic growth, improving Mexico's international competitiveness, and reducing poverty.

Mexico is one of Latin America's most industrialized nations. Manufacturing and mining . Motor vehicles, processed food, steel, chemicals. paper and textiles have joined more traditional products such as sugar, coffee, silver, lead, copper and zinc. Among Mexico's biggest national assets are its oil reserves, the eighth largest in the world, and its gas reserves. Concentrated mainly along the Gulf Coast and belonging to a government owned monopoly, Pemex, these reserves yield about one tenth of Mexico's export earnings and one third of the government's revenues.

Mexico CAN support it's own people if they want to.

THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010 WHENEVER THEY COME UP FOR OFFICE.

Alabama:

Alaska:

Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Arizona:

McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas:
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
California:
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado:

Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Connecticut:
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Delaware:
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Florida:
Martinez (R-FL), Yea

Georgia:

Hawaii:
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:

Illinois:
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Yea
Indiana:
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Iowa:

Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Kansas:
Brownback (R-KS), Yea

Kentucky:


Louisiana:
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea

Maine:


Maryland:
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts:
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Michigan:
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota:


Mississippi:


Missouri:


Montana:
Baucus (D-MT), Yea

Nebraska:
Hagel (R-NE), Yea

Nevada:

Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:


New Jersey:
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
New Mexico:
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea

New York:
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:


North Dakota:

Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Ohio:
DeWine (R-OH), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma:


Oregon:

Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania:

Specter (R-PA), Yea
Rhode Island:
Chafee (R-RI), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina:

Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota:
Johnson (D-SD), Yea

Tennessee:


Texas:


Utah:


Vermont:
Jeffords (I-VT), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Virginia:


Washington:
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia:

Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting
Wisconsin:
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Wyoming:

Yeah, what hd said

Read my past posts and you will see that I am not being harsh at all, rather I'm defending them. But as far as paying Social Security benefits to someone, anyone, who has not paid into the system, even I have to object to that.

California -156 years ago!

Do you know what happened this week back in 1850, in California?

California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gun fights in the streets.

So basically, it was just like California today
except the women had real breasts and
men didn't hold hands

There are alot of people who are here illegally who had no choice in the matter-- namely, those that came over as children because their parents came over here illegally and brought them over. These children cannot go to school, because they do not have the legal papers to do so. When they grow up they cannot get a job the legal way. They grow up thinking like Americans, and yet they are not Americans.

So-- forgetting their parents, I want to raise this question: Would you punish these children also, for something that isn't their fault, for something that they do not want, and never wanted??

My father is a Chicano (meaning he was born here in the USA and his parents are Mexican) and I grew up inm what came to be an all hispanic, half illegal neighborhood. He feels the same way the majority of you feel-- that illegal immigration is wrong. As for myself, I'm neutral about the situation, and I'm going to keep my personal feelings out of it.

And Gottleib Daimler had yet to invent the car - so no one had any E-Class to get around in! Damn! Talk about roughing it!

Good point, the kid's didn't have choice in the matter.The mexican movement is so out of control nothing can be done.Our gov't lost their grip somthing has to be done to get this stuff in order,so it work's out good for everyone.When I say mexican movement I mean that I feel that mexican's just don't wake up one morning and say let's go to the u.s.. I think it's a well oiled plan with there gov't sending them here and good contact's set up in america.It really like a war to take over with out fighting right under our noses,but I give the mexican's credit they are winning the war without a shot fired.