Your whole premise is we should treat immigrants the same as Mexico.
And i wholeheartadly agree since the immigration process for immigrating to Mexico is:
-Faster
-Easier
-Cheaper
-More Fair
AND you can apply for citizenship once you have arrived without a visa
SO yes lets follow Mexicos path
as usual
you are reframing the argument of the opponent to support your own assertin.
yes, mexico LOVES having americans with money imigrate to their country.
mexico does NOT allow guatemalans with no money to immigrate to their country.
TAPACHULA,
Mexico, June 11 — Quiet as it is kept in political circles, Mexico, so much the focus of the United States'
immigration debate, has its own set of immigration problems. And as elected officials from President Vicente Fox on down denounce Washington's plans to deploy troops and build more walls along the United States border, Mexico has begun a re-examination of its own policies and prejudices.
Here at Mexico's own southern edge, Guatemalans cross legally and illegally to do jobs that Mexicans departing for the north no longer want. And hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from nearly two dozen other countries, including China, Ecuador, Cuba and Somalia, pass through on their way to the United States.
Dense jungle makes establishing an effective law enforcement presence along the line impossible. Crossing the border is often as easy as hopping a fence or rafting for 10 minutes. But, under pressure from the United States, Mexico has steadily increased checkpoints along highways at the border including several posts with military forces.
The Mexican authorities report that detentions and deportations have risen in the past four years by an estimated 74 percent, to 240,000, nearly half along the southern border. But they acknowledged there had also been a boom in immigrant smuggling and increased incidents of abuses and attacks by corrupt law enforcement officials, vigilantes and bandits. Meanwhile, the waves of migrants continue to grow.
Few politicians have made public speeches about such matters. But Deputy Foreign Minister Gerónimo Gutiérrez recently acknowledged that Mexico's immigration laws were "tougher than those being contemplated by the United States," where the authorities caught 1.5 million people illegally crossing the Mexican border last year. He spoke before a congressional panel to discuss "Mexico in the Face of the Migratory Phenomenon."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/world/americas/18mexico.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
so yes, we SHOULD follow mexico's plan.
-Secure our soutghern border against illegal aliens from poor backward nations, to keep our already devastated economy from capsizing due to massive unemployment and depression of wages by cheap unskilled labour from the south.
-Allow fast easy and largely unfettered immigration of self-sufficientpeople from wealthy prosperous nations
-End the unfair quota system which prejudices immigration levels in favour od impoverished third worlders and assylum seekers who rely on handouts and welfare rather than industriousness.
we should definately treat mexicans crossing the southern border exactly the same way mexico treats guatties crossing THEIR southern border.