Do you people know what mexico is really like?

Question: What do you think of Mexico, as a country not a government, on a whole?

My thoughts:
"According to the World Bank, Mexico ranks 13th in the world in regard to GDP and has the fourth largest per capita income in Latin America just after Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica, and it is firmly established as an upper middle-income country."

Many of the people who are coming here illegally are not really representing the best of their country. They are representing the worst. The people who live in the rural and poverty-stricken areas.

Just because somebody lives in Mexico, it doesn't mean they are poor and uneducated. 92% of the population can read and write and .3% of the population has HIV/AIDS. The average life expectancy is 75 (source: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mx.html#People) From what I've gathered, the people who are here illegally are the ones who are in need of the most help. However, the population of Mexico, as a whole, doesn't seem to be AS bad.
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diamante... like i previously stated, the people who come here are the worst of the worst. no education, living in rural areas...in poverty.

its not the entire country.

Our Turn

I honestly do not care. Illegal is still illegal.

Diamante

So with that said, why is it that they can't stand up and fight in their own country for a better life instead of coming here?

Ok, let me do a remix to the question....why wont Mexico's govt help their poor if they are that wealthy? And im sure that Mexico's wealth is due from their illegal workers sending OUR money back to their country!

Andy

Mexico's problem, from my point of view, is its rampant corruption, especially of the legal system.

All those poor girls, maquiladora workers for the most part I think, slaughtered in Juarez. Journalists and police chiefs killed. Drug gangs in open warfare on city streets.

Tourists used to be safe from murderous gangs. Not so much anymore.

stump

and why should we allow mexico to dump its problems on us?
i'm all for helping but it is costing us to much. everything from education and health care to the crime. when we have solved all the problems with poverty in the usa then maybe we can help mexico

Aptoslady

martin l

Amelia, you are 100% correct but you can't negate the fact that illegal immigration from Mexico is a serious problem here, illegal immigration is a problem regardless of which county it's from, but due to obvious geographical issues, Mexico is the largest contributor of illegal immigration in the Unites States, if we bordered China it would be China but it's not. My issue isn't with the illegals that come here, I would do the same if I were in there shoes, my gripe is with the US govt no doing enough to curtail illegal immigration, it's a hugh problem and the people that are hurt the most by it are immigrants themselves, many of them hispanic that took the time to come here legally, because the jobs that illegals take are the lower paying jobs and they are made even lower paying by illegal immigration. Immigration is good for this country but it has to be controlled to a level where new immigrants can be assimilated to this countries values and culture.

sister_godzilla

If it's true, then why isn't Mexico helping its poor?
The Mexican people should be ashamed that so many of their poor are sneaking across the border and embarrassing their country.

Lucky

There is good and bad like anywhere. The gap between the haves and the have nots is huge. A very small number of people control most of the wealth in Mexico. The more problems in Mexico the bigger the immigration problem in the US.

SNOOP

OK. If I go with your way of thinking on the poor uneducated of Mexico then I have a solution! Lets, the USA, just ship all of our poor, uneducated and those on welfare to Canada. Let it be a Canadian problem. Problem solved and then we would have room for all of Mexico's problems.

Right...but you have a major hate-on for Germans apparently. A picky racist...interesting.

DAR

I am not sure what your question is.

However, there is a big difference between hating an entire nationality and not wanting the poorest, least educated and most criminal classes of that nationality to illegally come to ones own country to get 'free' education and health care at the expense of one's own children and sick people.

Those people are stealing. Thinking theft should be punished is not the same thing as hating an entire nationality.

gokart121

Who hates Mexico? What people want to see is SOME PROGRESS IN TAKING CARE OF THEIR OWN. If they can build hotels and resorts and so forth, they can build schools and hospitals too. Your 'question' is one more brick in the 'border fence' as far as I'm concerned...we have poverty in america, too,
why is it america's responsibility somehow to take care of Mexico's poor? Frankly, it isn't. So, let's see schools and hospitals, eh? Without passing the bill to america, please? Thanks!

Mistyferie

I don't have an opinion on Mexico in general. I just want the illegals and others to stay there if it is so great why do they come here? We cannot support the people we already have and do not need more to support.

Dan B

i dont hate the mexicans i HATE their corrupt so called govt that steals from the poor to give to the rich and if i was wrong then why are th poor ones running over the border as fast as they can cause they know things will NEVER change regardless of whose in power

halfbright

Oh those poor people..,Mexico doesnt have a welfare program so they come over here and use ours?Sorry that doesnt cut the butter in my book.No one is responsible for me but me..,not the government,not someone else government,not the insurance companies,not my next door neighbor..,ME.And no one is responsible for my children but ME.Maybe they should practice some birth control and they wouldnt be so poor..,cant afford to feed yourself..,dont have children.What ever happened to personal responsibilty????????? It seems la dolce vita wants to email me saying that I am knocking the catholic religion..,as I said..,if you cannot feed yourself,then dont have children you cant feed either..,has nothing to do with religion and every thing to do with personal responsibility for your children..,DDDUUUUHHHHH.

Kitt

Haven't been there but know a lot of people from there. i don't live in the U.S. so perhaps we meet a good type of people, highly educated

cruzan

If what you say is true, then it would be next to impossible for me to think of the country without thinking of the government. To be so affluent and yet allow so many to live in abject poverty so bad they run away and risk death to get something they only "think" is better, is beyond me. Why does this grand country not care for it's citizens?

i_luv_music

i don't give a rats A$$ what Mexico is like, its still a disgusting, corrupt country that needs to be removed from the earth. along with all the illegals that came from it.

Tony R

not me

Julee.

that is very interesting.

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