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See, before such an issue (mass migration) could come to be, MEXICO (the gov't) had to be weakened, economically. I'm thinking in terms of the World Bank, U.S. gov't loan payment schedules with Mexico--stuff like this. An overwhelming *need* had to come into being for Mexico's gov't--a circumstance which would be felt harshly by Mexico's most vulnerable people *first*--which would then ultimately compel Mexico's poor to risk the migration north.
And how did the unemployed black hog butchers in the South contribute to the breakdown of the Mexican economy? Or the unemployed construction day laborer blacks in Las Vegas? Or even the WHITE crane operator who USED to make $20 - $30/hour but now has to take less because a (white-looking ) illegal will do the job for $10/hr.? Or the recent WHITE Teacher's College grad in Texas who can't get a job in her profession in her little home town because she can't speak Spanish? What about the unionized WHITE men in Milwaukee who USED to make $18/hr. 20 years ago, who because of the gift of NAFTA, their plants moved to Mexico and are now working for minimum wage - what did they do to "break down" the economy of Mexico? (We're not even going to talk about the 50% unemployment of adult black men in that city, many of whose industry jobs were another gift to Mexico).
In defense of Mexicans without one mention of negatively-impacted black Americans who had nothing to do with the collapse of the peso yet wound up equally as victims, yes you did. Your "facts", however, weren't quite kosher.I remember maybe two things about people from Mexico *back in the day*:
IONO. I'd have to take a bit of time to really look at this issue in any kind of detail for any stuff that's not commonly known, but I think I'm on a right track in what I've so far put into this post.
- Mexicans may have liked American tourist dollars, but there was *no love* for the American people (Ugly American issues). In fact, I actually think they despised Americans, by and large.
- Mexico's economy collapsed (started falling apart in the late 70s and totally unwheeled during the '80s and '90s). Blam! Stalled. Collapsed. The peso was utterly worthless, inflation was ravaging their small economy, their gov't was RUINED with graft, and the majority poor people faced mass starvation.
psssst! Since it was irrelevant to the convo, I didn't mention that MOST Irish immigrants did NOT come through Ellis Island, as you claimed. They came in through ports in the South.
I'm not sure what this means? Especially since Cubans (the white-looking ones, at least - let us not forget the dark-skinned Mariel boat people's treatment!) were WELCOMED in the U.S., and to this day, any Cuban who jumps in a dinghy and reaches American shores will be hailed a HERO.... I don't get the lumping in of the original chinchilla-wrapped and bejeweled Cuban refugees with desperately poor and/or politically oppressed Haitians (many of whom were eating "dirt cakes") who TO THIS DAY are ROUTINELY shipped back to Haiti and, during the Clinton Administration, were killed upon return.Trust, in response to a kind of taunt that a Sister from the Caribbean sort of tossed off to me regarding the treatment of the Haitian refugees 'as opposed to refugees arriving from her own island' during a dialog at another site, I came back at her with a comment that was something like this:
"If we Blacks in this country decide we can't keep doing as bad or worse than the Cuban or Haitian boat people were doing in their home countries, then maybe all yaw in the Caribbean should get ready for *boatloads* of AAs (African Americans) arriving on yaw's shores. Imagine.....40 MILLION AAs beaching our boats on all of yaw's shores!" I posted something like this to her.
Just the thought, I guess. Chick got real mad at me...LOL!