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    The US Should Take Lessons From Mexico

    The US follow Canada's conservative policies. Here I suggest the same, follow Mexico's conservative policies.

    The US Should Take Lessons From Mexico
    ...The developing world needs to pay heed to Mexico’s model of an open and free economy without excessive debt. The model promises much greater long-term growth than the state-centered Brazilian developmental orientation. The U.S. economic colossus, still in the economic doldrums because of excessive public and private debt, also needs to emulate its southern neighbor. For example, instead of increasing regulation on business — such as the financial and health care industries — the United States needs to fully deregulate markets and allow competition to flourish, thus bringing prices down.

    ...Politicians from all stripes seem to be frantic about the impending across-the-board cuts — Democrats warn that cuts in domestic spending could be bad for the economy, and Republicans are screaming that defense cuts will eviscerate U.S. national security. All of this is hogwash.

    At worst, the cuts might lead to another short-term recession, but reducing the economic drag of crushing government debt eventually would likely lead to vibrant and sustained economic growth in the longer term. Cutting the bloated defense budget — at record post-World War II highs with few potent threats to fight — even significantly would hardly put a dent in the U.S. status as the dominant military power on the planet.

    The only way to meaningfully slash the budget in Washington is to do so across the board with “shared sacrifice” as the theme. That way, the lobbyists have a harder time wheeling and dealing their way out of the cuts. Historically, for political reasons, budget deficits are usually closed with a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. Although the default option is not perfect, congressional inaction promises the largest deficit and budget reduction. Paying heed to its southern neighbor’s success through frugality in debt management, Congress should do nothing and let the ax fall on New Year’s Day.

    From Mexico GDP Annual Growth Rate:


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    Ubama likes the commie way better.

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    I live in the part of Mexico called California. It doesn't work.

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    Illegals don't pay state and fed taxes here. Most use a false SS number and only pay that if they want to. Get hit by them, most don't have auto-insurance and it they do it's not them.
    Te key point if you enter a country illegally it's a crime. We shouldn't wait for them to commit another one. The fact that illegals dodged taxes and destroyed the livelihoods of the locals just proves the point - the illegals harm legal citizens who pay for the illegals' social support networks and their "imaginary" illegal rights.

    We welcome legal immigrants ever year of different nationalities. We should not have to put up with illegals costing our taxpayers, hurting our hospitals, and taking jobs away from America citizens.

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    We need a change in the WH and a serious effort with the illegal problem.
    Obama's mockery of the law is a violation of his oath of office.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trinnity View Post
    We need a change in the WH and a serious effort with the illegal problem.
    Obama's mockery of the law is a violation of his oath of office.
    Yep, he should be impeached.

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    "Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that struck down much of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, North Carolina lawmakers are still considering legislation that would toughen restrictions on immigrants in this state. "

    Good to see. Let them fight NC too.

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    Families fleeing Central American drug violence resettling in Mexico...

    More families fleeing Central America resettling in Mexico
    Jul 5,`17 -- The armed, masked gang members showed up on a motorcycle at the home in northern Honduras last fall with a stark warning for the occupants: Leave town within 24 hours, or else.
    Laura Maria Cruz Martinez, another single mother and the nine kids in their care hurriedly threw clothing and personal items into bags and made for the border before dawn, their home abandoned with the furniture and appliances left in place. Nine months later they're together again in two adjacent apartments in a working-class neighborhood of eastern Mexico City. It hasn't always been easy adjusting to this megalopolis of 20 million-plus, with its crowded subway and unfamiliar, slang-heavy Spanish, but at least they're safe from the gangs rampaging back home. All eleven were recognized as refugees by Mexico in March and granted asylum, making them part of a growing wave of refugees from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who are resettling here instead of trying to reach the United States, which many see as increasingly hostile.

    The rise in refugee resettlement in Mexico has paralleled a decrease in immigration to the United States, with apprehensions by U.S. Border Patrol down sharply at the frontier - especially of unaccompanied children and families like Cruz's. Under President Donald Trump, U.S. authorities have sought to ramp up immigration enforcement and decrease the number of refugees. Last week Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, warned that those who enter the U.S. illegally "should not be comfortable" and "should be concerned that someone is looking for you." "I do think there are fewer people deciding to focus their sights on the United States precisely because it has projected itself as being an unwelcoming country," said Maureen Meyer, a senior associate for Mexico at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights-focused organization. After Mexico received 3,424 applications for refugee status in 2015, that rose to 8,794 the following year and applications are already outpacing that this year with 5,464 just from January to May.


    Three-year-old Carlita Perez, center, from El Salvador, says grace along with, from left, Honduran siblings Laura, Ruth, and Josue Funez Cruz, and their cousin Emma Karina Cruz, as they sit down to dinner in the two-bedroom apartment the two families share in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City. The rise in refugee resettlement in Mexico has paralleled a decrease in immigration to the United States, with apprehensions by U.S. Border Patrol down sharply at the frontier, especially of unaccompanied children and families

    Nearly all are people from the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Central America, where street gangs are largely free to terrorize the population and murder rates are some of the world's highest outside of open war zones. The Mexico office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees believes the country could receive 20,000 requests by year's end. "We're talking about entire families, of entire generations ... who arrive at Mexico's southern border," said Francesca Fontanini, regional spokeswoman for the UNHCR. "Obviously, facing this avalanche of people the humanitarian response needs to increase." Belize, Costa Rica and Panama also saw a rise to more than 4,300 refugee applications last year from people fleeing El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

    Cruz, 40, said the threat against her household came just three hours after they reported to police that gangsters had been harassing her 16-year-old niece in the Chamelecon suburb of San Pedro Sula, which is among the world's five deadliest cities. The last straw came when a gang leader told the girl she was going to become his girlfriend whether she wanted to or not. "We wanted to be far away because of the threat," Cruz Martinez said. So on Oct. 7, with the help of money raised by their pastor, they boarded a 5 a.m. bus to Guatemala. Crossing Mexico and trying to enter the United States, chancing deportation all along the way, seemed unnecessarily risky. "If they sent us back to our country it was certain death," said Emma Karina Cruz Velasquez, the niece. Instead, they turned themselves in to Mexican authorities at the El Ceibo border crossing.

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