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To: Taro who wrote (283681)	4/11/2006 2:03:22 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

RE: " as long as the perception of the differences between the standard of living between Mexico and the US is that enormous, we are on a losing track trying to curtail illegal immigration. Long term we need to invest a lot more money and effort to help Mexico to make it more attractive to their citizens to stay down there " This is true. Grace (on Real Estate thread) said exactly the same thing - you don't see illegal border crossing from Canada to the same enormous degree you see it with our other border, so the obvious conclusion is to help build up Mexico's businesses as well as beef up border patrol. Btw, the reason why Germany had problems with Turks is because they denied citizenship from them in their guest visa program, thus, they made Turks second class citizens. That type of alienation (rather than integration) is what fuels problems. Ditto for having different languages - I think they need to make English the official language and remove the requirement for any other languages from all places except hospitals. Santa Clara County alone spends $1m or $10m (forgot which) to put its voter ballot in a zillion different languages. That's nuts. That money could be better spent on the handicapped - helpless people that truly need the funds.