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Originally Posted by Krimson X
...also, part of the solution exists south of the border. We have got to have a Mexican president that is seorious about improving the economy of Mexico and stopping the drug problem there.
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True that! Why is it that the Mexican government is complaining about the new AZ law? Why would Mexico want it's labor force leaving for the US? Wouldn't the Mexican government want to dissuade its nationals from leaving? Why is it that years ago the Mexican government created and handed out survival kits for people planning on illegally entering the US?
"The kits will contain medicine and information to prepare emigrants for what they face on the trip, which usually includes a trek through the remote deserts and mountains of Arizona or California because of increased U.S. border security.
The packets will include anti-diarrheal medicine, adhesive bandages, aspirin, acetaminophen, medicine for snake and scorpion bites, powder to prevent dehydration, water, salt, dry meat, cans of tuna and granola.
Women will receive 25 birth-control pills, men 25 condoms. AIDS is a small but growing problem in rural Mexico. It is spread mostly by men who contract the virus in the United States, then infect women back home.
The program will train hundreds of volunteers - people who already make a yearly trek north - in first aid and emergency health care. The volunteers will be given surgery soap, sutures for sewing wounds, thermometers, gauze, cotton and other implements to attend to migrants' medical problems.
The $2 million program, known as "Vete Sano, Regresa Sano" (Leave Healthy, Return Healthy), will begin June 15. It is funded by the Mexican government, which also is seeking funding from the California Endowment, a Woodland Hills-based health foundation. The endowment has set aside $50 million for programs that improve the health of California farm workers, part of that to be used in conjunction with the Mexican government."
The Mexican government needs to do more to fix its own major problems, including but not limited to the massive drug violence and not taking care of their own economic woes. There will always be legal and illegal immigration, especially to the US, but if there was more opportunity and more incentive to stay in the country of origin, there would be less people wanting to leave.