On 05-08-10, bob klahn said to tim richardson:


bk>...

TR> She is eligible for welfare, food stamps, medical services
TR> and housing for her baby, *supposedly* a U.S. citizen. But
TR> she's deported back to Mexico. So her welfare check and
TR> food stamps are mailed to her in Mexico.



bk>They do? Now that one I never heard of.



It happens. Or at least it did. There was a big brohaha over it some time
back. It was a large part of what proposition 187 was all about.


Another thing they were doing was sending county school buses to the border to
pick up Mexican kids, bus them to US schools, and take them back in the
afternoon. *We* were paying for all this, and the Mexican parents were paying
nothing! And the goddamn school district was participating in this blatant
defiance of the taxpayer because of *federal funds*. The more `heads' they had
in classrooms, the more *federal funds* they got! *Federal funds* were tied to
attendance rolls!


We don't *owe* Mexico anything. *We* created this country, and if Mexicans
want what we have here, let them have the guts to stand up and fight for it in
their own nation.


Mexico is still mainly in the hands of the big land owners, the money-movers,
and the drug lords.


There are places in Mexico where people live in such poverty as to make our
worst ghetto look like paradise by comparision.


But if they don't have the guts to take their country away from the crooks and
overlords who have control of it, and make it better for themselves and their
children, that isn't America's problem. And we shouldn't be  punished for
their lack of courage.

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*Durango b301 #PE*