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Tonchi · 05-26-2006, 01:01 AM

:sigh: Time to speak up as the one person here who lives knee-deep and shoulder to shoulder with illegal immigrants every day of her life, talks to them constantly, knows their families, watches the Hispanic newscasts and reads the editorials out of Mexico every day. You can talk about Economics and market dynamics all you want, but what it REALLY boils down to is that every company, every farm, every bank, every media outlet, every industry and every hiring process is under the control of "the 23 Families". Not the Mafia concept, it's an oligarchy. Those 23 Families (a term explained to me by one of the Longorias, one of the more powerful units of this oligarchy) collect all the money in Mexico. They make W's version of trickle-down economics look like grade school. They set all the prices, determine the wages and who will be hired, collect all the money, and control all the ecomony as far as what is available for distribution. They own practically all the politicians, directly or indirectly, so no laws will every be passed concerning monopolies or unfair practices. They have also instigated a policy which forbids the hiring of citizens who are of other racial or national groups, even though they are born in Mexico or have received citizenship; i.e., a Mexican-Korean citizen will not be able to get a job as a policeman or firefighter, and he may not run for public office. I find this situation particularly odious because Señor SLIM, head of one of the Families, is a Lebanese immigrant; he now owns the entire communications industry of Mexico (every phone and cell phone and internet connection pays into his bank account) and most of the department stores. THIS is why there is such a horrible crisis in Mexico and why everybody is running for the border. Everything existing in the country is no longer available to 95% of the population on a legal basis. What is the only other option? Revolution. Either that or miraculously managing a change through the ballot box even though the elections are as rigged as everything else is. That is why Vicente Fox has failed his country so monumentally. He was claiming his administration could fix all that, but nothing whatever has changed as far as most Mexicans can see. We can also thank Fox for encouraging them all to leave and move up here, and he just got through making speeches here about how we have to lighten up on our immigration stance. Right now, money earned in the US and sent to relatives back in Mexico is the only thing preventing a total collapse of the Mexican economy, it is their largest source of disposable income even though it originates outside their borders and no taxes on this payroll are paid to the Mexican treasury. It's obvious why Fox does not want that flow to stop. He will not be getting anything like it from the people/families who are REALLY ruling Mexico.

05-26-2006, 01:01 AM	#99
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	:sigh: Time to speak up as the one person here who lives knee-deep and shoulder to shoulder with illegal immigrants every day of her life, talks to them constantly, knows their families, watches the Hispanic newscasts and reads the editorials out of Mexico every day. You can talk about Economics and market dynamics all you want, but what it REALLY boils down to is that every company, every farm, every bank, every media outlet, every industry and every hiring process is under the control of "the 23 Families". Not the Mafia concept, it's an oligarchy. Those 23 Families (a term explained to me by one of the Longorias, one of the more powerful units of this oligarchy) collect all the money in Mexico. They make W's version of trickle-down economics look like grade school. They set all the prices, determine the wages and who will be hired, collect all the money, and control all the ecomony as far as what is available for distribution. They own practically all the politicians, directly or indirectly, so no laws will every be passed concerning monopolies or unfair practices. They have also instigated a policy which forbids the hiring of citizens who are of other racial or national groups, even though they are born in Mexico or have received citizenship; i.e., a Mexican-Korean citizen will not be able to get a job as a policeman or firefighter, and he may not run for public office. I find this situation particularly odious because Señor SLIM, head of one of the Families, is a Lebanese immigrant; he now owns the entire communications industry of Mexico (every phone and cell phone and internet connection pays into his bank account) and most of the department stores. THIS is why there is such a horrible crisis in Mexico and why everybody is running for the border. Everything existing in the country is no longer available to 95% of the population on a legal basis. What is the only other option? Revolution. Either that or miraculously managing a change through the ballot box even though the elections are as rigged as everything else is. That is why Vicente Fox has failed his country so monumentally. He was claiming his administration could fix all that, but nothing whatever has changed as far as most Mexicans can see. We can also thank Fox for encouraging them all to leave and move up here, and he just got through making speeches here about how we have to lighten up on our immigration stance. Right now, money earned in the US and sent to relatives back in Mexico is the only thing preventing a total collapse of the Mexican economy, it is their largest source of disposable income even though it originates outside their borders and no taxes on this payroll are paid to the Mexican treasury. It's obvious why Fox does not want that flow to stop. He will not be getting anything like it from the people/families who are REALLY ruling Mexico. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true. Last edited by Tonchi; 05-26-2006 at 01:05 AM.