Is Mexico a parasite on the USA?

[friedpie]

They do it for low wages which is great for the farmers (meaning less goverment aid is needed).

Farm subsidies are at record levels right now. Farmers are less likely to go bankrupt than most other businesses. Cheap farm labor has nothing to do with government aid. Farmers are the biggest welfare queens in the country. Average farmer income is over $65,000. The national average is around $35,000.

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: Stark

Originally posted by: alexruiz
OP, you need a lobotomy!

Our people WORK!!!! A parasite doesn't!! Stop watching too much TV
Maybe you have parasites in your brain..... wait, they would die of starvation.....

You forgot to add also the option "OP is an idiot for asking this stupid question"

US workers most productive in the world

a parasite works to support itself and (and sometimes its offspring) with no benefit to the host organism.

So you're saing the US benefits from the work that mexican immigrants do even if they send the profits they earn out of the country.

no, the US worker is not the most productive in the world - from your link

However, American employees also work longer hours, and three European countries -- Norway, France and Belgium -- beat the Americans in productivity per hour

In terms of output per hour we have three European countries doing better than the U.S. ... and they have done so ever since the mid-'80s."

Norwegians lead the world with an output of $38 per hour worked last year. French workers were in second place, averaging $35 an hour, the report said. Belgians were third at $34, followed by Americans at $32.

the lazy socialists beat the USA 😀

you see, we can afford to have 40 days of paid vacation every year, we work just harder 😀

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: andyfasthands
That article has nothing to do with the "American people" or "economics," only the American half-assed arrogance that stems from ideas of white supremecy. All I see is a political argument, with claims made from American second-hand sources. Get some real primary sources from the Mexican writers during that era and maybe you'd have a better argument, Stark. Poorly written.

white supremacist? Check the site I got the info off of, moron.

Welcome to The Azteca Web Page! The Azteca Web page contains information accumulated especially for Mexicans, Chicanos, and/or Mexican-Americans. However, everyone is welcome and encouraged to read this information. The Azteca Web Page is published in Los Angeles, California USA (Aztlan). This web site is a winner in the Culture category of the Iway 500 listing. The Azteca Web Page is also a Magellan 3-star site.

 

[andyfasthands]

Originally posted by: Stark

Originally posted by: andyfasthands
That article has nothing to do with the "American people" or "economics," only the American half-assed arrogance that stems from ideas of white supremecy. All I see is a political argument, with claims made from American second-hand sources. Get some real primary sources from the Mexican writers during that era and maybe you'd have a better argument, Stark. Poorly written.

white supremacist? Check the site I got the info off of, moron.

Welcome to The Azteca Web Page! The Azteca Web page contains information accumulated especially for Mexicans, Chicanos, and/or Mexican-Americans. However, everyone is welcome and encouraged to read this information. The Azteca Web Page is published in Los Angeles, California USA (Aztlan). This web site is a winner in the Culture category of the Iway 500 listing. The Azteca Web Page is also a Magellan 3-star site.

www.azteca.net

Looks more like a web-hosting/web-design business than a credible academic website. Also, see my earlier post about what followed your high-school essay.

 

[friedpie]

Originally posted by: alexruiz
No, you are the one that should get over it because it is a fact!!! It wasn't a donation, was it??? It was robbery!!! But I didn't even mentioned the USA anywhere in that post, so you reached the conclusion yourself...... We are over it, it is past, but it is an undeniable FACT!!!

I won't argue that US expansion was the reason for the war because it was. The US had first offered Mexico $25 million for California and other Mexican territory. These Mexican territories were sparesly population (there were less than 4,000 mexicans living in California at the time) Mexico declined. Anyway, part of the treaty was the US paying Mexico $15 million for California and New Mexico. Five years after that Mexico sells more land to the US for $10 million. I wouldn't call it a robbery. It was a financial transaction that was the consequence of war.

 

[Tret]

Don't blame the mexican people blame the mexican goverment

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: andyfasthands

Originally posted by: Stark

Originally posted by: andyfasthands
That article has nothing to do with the "American people" or "economics," only the American half-assed arrogance that stems from ideas of white supremecy. All I see is a political argument, with claims made from American second-hand sources. Get some real primary sources from the Mexican writers during that era and maybe you'd have a better argument, Stark. Poorly written.

white supremacist? Check the site I got the info off of, moron.

Welcome to The Azteca Web Page! The Azteca Web page contains information accumulated especially for Mexicans, Chicanos, and/or Mexican-Americans. However, everyone is welcome and encouraged to read this information. The Azteca Web Page is published in Los Angeles, California USA (Aztlan). This web site is a winner in the Culture category of the Iway 500 listing. The Azteca Web Page is also a Magellan 3-star site.

www.azteca.net

Looks more like a web-hosting/web-design business than a credible academic website. Also, see my earlier post about what followed your high-school essay.

www.mexica.net

if you want to see some real racism, check out MEChA's "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán"
El Plan
"In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal "beloved patriot" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.

We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlán belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent

Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner "gabacho" who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán. "

 

[friedpie]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: MacBaine
They do the jobs you would never do.

Bullcrap.

Who collects your garbage? Who does the hideous laundry at hospitals, or changes bedpans in nursing homes? There are dozens of lowpaying, hard and or disgusting jobs out there that ordinary people have been doing for decades. Picking fruit is not the only one. BTW, in the eastern US, mexicans are doing more construction work than fruit picking.

Mexicans do landscaping at our apartment complex, they pick up trash and clean where I work and they expand the interstate on which I drive on everyday. There is a Columbian who barely speaks English where I get my hair cut

They pick the fruits and vegetables that we eat. If it was not for them I would be getting paid less because we had to pay more for lazier employees and my food would cost more because I had to pay someone a nice sum to pick it or cook it. Bring in the hardworking Mexicans and cut off welfare entirely. Let those lazy fvcks starve to death. Issue the Mexicans tax payer id numbers and grant them citizenship in "x amount" of years

No thanks. I say welcome to America.

I think you should read
this article.

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: MacBaine
They do the jobs you would never do.

Bullcrap.

Who collects your garbage? Who does the hideous laundry at hospitals, or changes bedpans in nursing homes? There are dozens of lowpaying, hard and or disgusting jobs out there that ordinary people have been doing for decades. Picking fruit is not the only one. BTW, in the eastern US, mexicans are doing more construction work than fruit picking.

Mexicans do landscaping at our apartment complex, they pick up trash and clean where I work and they expand the interstate on which I drive on everyday. There is a Columbian who barely speaks English where I get my hair cut

They pick the fruits and vegetables that we eat. If it was not for them I would be getting paid less because we had to pay more for lazier employees and my food would cost more because I had to pay someone a nice sum to pick it or cook it. Bring in the hardworking Mexicans and cut off welfare entirely. Let those lazy fvcks starve to death. Issue the Mexicans tax payer id numbers and grant them citizenship in "x amount" of years

No thanks. I say welcome to America.

I think you should read
this article.

great article. it goes well with this.

Well, seven years later, Morena is still poor. Although she never studied economics, she has learned a fundamental economic truth: The only leverage unskilled workers have is scarcity of labor. Morena can't work her way up the economic ladder because the bottom rungs have been broken off by the weight of millions of new illegal workers. The census bureau says the number of illegal immigrants in the country doubled in the 1990s, from 3.5 million to 7 million, the largest such increase in the nation's history.

So Morena soldiers on at $7.50 an hour, living with a reality that the late Cesar Chavez, champion of the farm worker, understood back in the 1960s. Chavez, says David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian from Stanford University, advocated limited immigration to protect the wage levels of the Chicano workers he struggled to unionize. Without such restrictions, demand for labor would fall, and with it the pressure to pay higher wages.

The people who traditionally benefit from the Patricia Morenas and other low-paid workers are farther up the economic ladder?businesses, industries and homeowners. For them, stagnant low wages mean they can hire maids, farm laborers, seamstresses, roofers and carpet cleaners for about the same wages as they paid a quarter-century ago. That helps industries grow cheap lettuce and make down-market shirts. It frees up enough money for homeowners to afford those sports cars whose price tripled even as the cost of getting their lawn mowed stayed the same.

</snip>

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Stark

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: MacBaine
They do the jobs you would never do.

Bullcrap.

Who collects your garbage? Who does the hideous laundry at hospitals, or changes bedpans in nursing homes? There are dozens of lowpaying, hard and or disgusting jobs out there that ordinary people have been doing for decades. Picking fruit is not the only one. BTW, in the eastern US, mexicans are doing more construction work than fruit picking.

Mexicans do landscaping at our apartment complex, they pick up trash and clean where I work and they expand the interstate on which I drive on everyday. There is a Columbian who barely speaks English where I get my hair cut

They pick the fruits and vegetables that we eat. If it was not for them I would be getting paid less because we had to pay more for lazier employees and my food would cost more because I had to pay someone a nice sum to pick it or cook it. Bring in the hardworking Mexicans and cut off welfare entirely. Let those lazy fvcks starve to death. Issue the Mexicans tax payer id numbers and grant them citizenship in "x amount" of years

No thanks. I say welcome to America.

I think you should read
this article.

great article. it goes well with this.

Well, seven years later, Morena is still poor. Although she never studied economics, she has learned a fundamental economic truth: The only leverage unskilled workers have is scarcity of labor. Morena can't work her way up the economic ladder because the bottom rungs have been broken off by the weight of millions of new illegal workers. The census bureau says the number of illegal immigrants in the country doubled in the 1990s, from 3.5 million to 7 million, the largest such increase in the nation's history.

So Morena soldiers on at $7.50 an hour, living with a reality that the late Cesar Chavez, champion of the farm worker, understood back in the 1960s. Chavez, says David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian from Stanford University, advocated limited immigration to protect the wage levels of the Chicano workers he struggled to unionize. Without such restrictions, demand for labor would fall, and with it the pressure to pay higher wages.

The people who traditionally benefit from the Patricia Morenas and other low-paid workers are farther up the economic ladder?businesses, industries and homeowners. For them, stagnant low wages mean they can hire maids, farm laborers, seamstresses, roofers and carpet cleaners for about the same wages as they paid a quarter-century ago. That helps industries grow cheap lettuce and make down-market shirts. It frees up enough money for homeowners to afford those sports cars whose price tripled even as the cost of getting their lawn mowed stayed the same.

</snip>

It's called educating yourself to better improve your station in life. I work 40+ hours a week, maintain a marriage, and take 7-12 credit hours a semester at the local community college. Set up job training programs for uneducated workers. Last time I checked alot of blue collar but still relatively high paying jobs did not require a high school education mustless a college degree. Heck open up an ethnic restaurant. When the new latino community discovers this then they can escape their situation, which is however better than had they stayed in Mexico.

 

[jdogg]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: alexruiz

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: alexruiz

Originally posted by: shinerburke


The Mexican Government is nothing but a giant pimple on the ass of the USA.

show how.....

Two words.....extreme corruption.

Ahh, the infamous "corruption myth"... Yes, we have corruption, not denial here. However, it is nowhere as bad as the popular myth......

Don't believe me??? Then, answer if you have you faced it yourself.....

But I still don't see how "extreme corruption" could make my goverment a giant pimple in the ass of your goverment..... in fact, it should make it closer.......

Never faced it myself, but I have a good friend who's family moved up here a few years ago. His father served in the Mexican Govt., no I don't know his position, and he is always talking about the kickbacks he was offered, the payoffs that occurred for this that and the other thing, the amount of money that changed hands just so someone would turn a blind eye to something or give them something they shouldn't have, etc, etc, etc.....he gave up and left a good job because he was fed up with the corruption.

Now, that is second hand info but it does go along with everything I have ever read or heard about corruption in the Mexican Govt. Mexico has no reason in the world to be a Third World country, they only reason they are is because of the people that have been running/ruining Mexico from the very beginning.

This is retarded ... you really think american politicians don't get kickbacks to the same degree if not MORE than in the mexican gov't?!?!?! ... come on people ... ever heard of "lobbying". I would say this kind of ignorance is what hurts our country far more than mexico "leaching" off us

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Stark

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: MacBaine
They do the jobs you would never do.

Bullcrap.

Who collects your garbage? Who does the hideous laundry at hospitals, or changes bedpans in nursing homes? There are dozens of lowpaying, hard and or disgusting jobs out there that ordinary people have been doing for decades. Picking fruit is not the only one. BTW, in the eastern US, mexicans are doing more construction work than fruit picking.

Mexicans do landscaping at our apartment complex, they pick up trash and clean where I work and they expand the interstate on which I drive on everyday. There is a Columbian who barely speaks English where I get my hair cut

They pick the fruits and vegetables that we eat. If it was not for them I would be getting paid less because we had to pay more for lazier employees and my food would cost more because I had to pay someone a nice sum to pick it or cook it. Bring in the hardworking Mexicans and cut off welfare entirely. Let those lazy fvcks starve to death. Issue the Mexicans tax payer id numbers and grant them citizenship in "x amount" of years

No thanks. I say welcome to America.

I think you should read
this article.

great article. it goes well with this.

Well, seven years later, Morena is still poor. Although she never studied economics, she has learned a fundamental economic truth: The only leverage unskilled workers have is scarcity of labor. Morena can't work her way up the economic ladder because the bottom rungs have been broken off by the weight of millions of new illegal workers. The census bureau says the number of illegal immigrants in the country doubled in the 1990s, from 3.5 million to 7 million, the largest such increase in the nation's history.

So Morena soldiers on at $7.50 an hour, living with a reality that the late Cesar Chavez, champion of the farm worker, understood back in the 1960s. Chavez, says David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian from Stanford University, advocated limited immigration to protect the wage levels of the Chicano workers he struggled to unionize. Without such restrictions, demand for labor would fall, and with it the pressure to pay higher wages.

The people who traditionally benefit from the Patricia Morenas and other low-paid workers are farther up the economic ladder?businesses, industries and homeowners. For them, stagnant low wages mean they can hire maids, farm laborers, seamstresses, roofers and carpet cleaners for about the same wages as they paid a quarter-century ago. That helps industries grow cheap lettuce and make down-market shirts. It frees up enough money for homeowners to afford those sports cars whose price tripled even as the cost of getting their lawn mowed stayed the same.

</snip>

It's called educating yourself to better improve your station in life. I work 40+ hours a week, maintain a marriage, and take 7-12 credit hours a semester at the local community college. Set up job training programs for uneducated workers. Last time I checked alot of blue collar but still relatively high paying jobs did not require a high school education mustless a college degree. Heck open up an ethnic restaurant. When the new latino community discovers this then they can escape their situation, which is however better than had they stayed in Mexico.

Interesting point.

In cali, they used that same argument to pass a bill giving "undocumented residents" the right to get financial aid at community college (I guess $13 per unit is a budget buster).

"We can continue to bury our heads in the sand and ignore it, but this helps kids who are in this state, who have graduated from high school, who we hope will go on to college, or learn a trade," said Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael. "It's the right thing to do politically, it's the right thing to do socially, and it's the right thing to do economically as well."

source

The question is, why should we be providing free career training for citizens of another country who are here illegally? Why is that the taxpayers obligation?

It comes down to this: on one side you have upper and middle class businesspeople (many conservative republicans) and homeowners like illegal workers for the cheap labor they provide. They work hard for less money and they don't complain. On the other side you have radical liberals and racist latino groups who want to give California back to the mexican worker. These groups have combined to allow a shadow society to form within our boarders.

The people this influx of cheap illegal labor hurts are both the average taxpayer who have to pay for social services for the illegals and the low-skilled workers here legally who can't compete with less than minimum wage/no benefits illegal workers. This includes many Mexican immigrants who are here legally.

Society needs hardworking blue collar labor and this class will always exist in the population. Not everyone wants a college degree or a white collar job. They should not have to compete with illegal workers who work for illegal wages and receive government healthcare. Until we decide to take our own laws seriously and set standards (and penalties) for hiring ONLY legal workers, this trend will continue.

Illegal immigrants come here for work. If they can't get work without waiting in line and coming here legally, they'll be far less likely to make the journey north.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
They do the jobs you would never do. I garauntee, even if you were out of work, you wouldn't even think about doing some of the jobs they do for the pay they make.

Edit: I voted symbiotic.

if they quit coming over here, or if we had policies that allowed shoot on sight orders for border patrol agents, then perhaps these scumbag companies would either go out of business or pay higher wages. as it is now we all just throw up our hands and say it's a problem that can't be solved. Yes, it can. Make it extrordinarily hard for these illegals to live. Put up fences that electrocute you if you try and climb them. Stock the rio grande with pirahnas. Stop giving them free medical care and education. When they show up in california to get a drivers liscense, arrest them immediately. Defray the costs of this by holding public circuses at the border and charging $5 to watch them be shot out of a cannon back into mexico.

 

[Lucky]

no, the US worker is not the most productive in the world - from your link

Did you read the friggin headline? I'll help you out, since you apparently missed it!

Study: U.S. workers most productive overall

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Stark

Interesting point.

In cali, they used that same argument to pass a bill giving "undocumented residents" the right to get financial aid at community college (I guess $13 per unit is a budget buster).

as well as giving them drivers licenses to get there.....only in California 😉 This is because you have too many bleading heart tree huggers in the state.

Me? I'm a greedy capitalist pig. Cut out all welfare and assistance. Sink or swim I say.

Jeebus 13 bucks a unit? It's almost 40 a credit hour here

 

[TheeeChosenOne]

If you were reincarnated and BORN in a small 3rd world village, wouldn't you be hungry for something better where you could feed your family. If you saw this fatcat country with opportunities galore, wouldn't you go for it? HECK I WOULD!!

Being born in a FIRST WORLD country is a blessing. Billions upon billions of people are born in corrupt countries with sh!t situations. The FEW that try to break out of this "slavery" should be APPLAUDED as HEROES. MOST 3rd world people wouldn't even think of taking such a long journey in a foreign country, with a foreign language where bigotry exists.

------>You too can be viewed as a parasite yourself everytime you buy a foreign made car or buy a PS2 made in Japan. You are also taking American made money and giving it to another country.

Your simplistic question smacks of racism and lack of human empathy, thus voted accordingly.

 

[TheeeChosenOne]

BTW, if Mexico hadn't a history of extreme coruption where you see the VERY rich and VERY poor it would be a First World country due to its resources.

If they can fix these inherent problems, Mexico could be a GIANT in the making. Its people are "hungry" and thus very hard working. I have no doubt that a 100 year make-over could make Mexico a country to be reckoned with.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: jdogg

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: alexruiz

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: alexruiz

Originally posted by: shinerburke


The Mexican Government is nothing but a giant pimple on the ass of the USA.

show how.....

Two words.....extreme corruption.

Ahh, the infamous "corruption myth"... Yes, we have corruption, not denial here. However, it is nowhere as bad as the popular myth......

Don't believe me??? Then, answer if you have you faced it yourself.....

But I still don't see how "extreme corruption" could make my goverment a giant pimple in the ass of your goverment..... in fact, it should make it closer.......

Never faced it myself, but I have a good friend who's family moved up here a few years ago. His father served in the Mexican Govt., no I don't know his position, and he is always talking about the kickbacks he was offered, the payoffs that occurred for this that and the other thing, the amount of money that changed hands just so someone would turn a blind eye to something or give them something they shouldn't have, etc, etc, etc.....he gave up and left a good job because he was fed up with the corruption.

Now, that is second hand info but it does go along with everything I have ever read or heard about corruption in the Mexican Govt. Mexico has no reason in the world to be a Third World country, they only reason they are is because of the people that have been running/ruining Mexico from the very beginning.

This is retarded ... you really think american politicians don't get kickbacks to the same degree if not MORE than in the mexican gov't?!?!?! ... come on people ... ever heard of "lobbying". I would say this kind of ignorance is what hurts our country far more than mexico "leaching" off us

Read my earlier post. Nobody's denying that special interests and such are a bad thing. And it's debatable whether the more blatant corruption in Mexico is better or worse, since there it's not shrouded in righteousness.

However, the blatant corruption at the lower levels (how many times have I been stopped in Mexico by the policia and told I can pay my "fine" directly to the cop?

) harms the nation as a whole, down to the lowest levels. When the average honest citizen is afraid to call the police, or apply for a permit, or any other "official" dealing, then the entire country suffers.

If a restaurant owner in Ensenada has to pay 10% in kickbacks to local "officials", that's less that he has available to pay himself or his employees or spend on improvements that would employ others.

That's the kind of corruption that truly affects the people and hurts the nations around as well.

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: TheeeChosenOne
If you were reincarnated and BORN in a small 3rd world village, wouldn't you be hungry for something better where you could feed your family. If you saw this fatcat country with opportunities galore, wouldn't you go for it? HECK I WOULD!!

Being born in a FIRST WORLD country is a blessing. Billions upon billions of people are born in corrupt countries with sh!t situations. The FEW that try to break out of this "slavery" should be APPLAUDED as HEROES. MOST 3rd world people wouldn't even think of taking such a long journey in a foreign country, with a foreign language where bigotry exists.

------>You too can be viewed as a parasite yourself everytime you buy a foreign made car or buy a PS2 made in Japan. You are also taking American made money and giving it to another country.

Your simplistic question smacks of racism and lack of human empathy, thus voted accordingly.

But I'd have a nice PS2 or Honda in exchange for my money. Immigrants send money back their home countries and we don't see any benefit here.

I agree than I'm extremely fortunate to live where I do. But why should illegal Mexicans get a free pass to stay in the country when the coast guard regulary forces migrants from Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba to turn back instead of entering the country? I don't hear anyone arguing that Haitians are a vital part of the economy because they do jobs the rest of us won't. Nobody argues that we should allow arabs to come in and live here illegally.

So I guess there is racism in this topic, but you have to wonder which side it comes from: the side who thinks laws should mean something regardless of race or creed or the side who thinks the gringos stole california from it's rightful owners.

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: Lucky

no, the US worker is not the most productive in the world - from your link

Did you read the friggin headline? I'll help you out, since you apparently missed it!

Study: U.S. workers most productive overall

I'm also going to help you out my flagwaving friend

I answered on this statement "US workers most productive in the world" - he didn't say "US workers most productive in the world overall"

if you knew anything about analyzing (simple) statistics you would know that the "productive overall" means sh*t
you can not compare the output of somebody who works 60 hours a week with somebody with someone who works 40 hours a week (comparing apples with oranges)

the only thing you can compary in this case is the output/hour

I know, it must be hard to swallow that the average "lazy" French worker is in fact more productive then the average American worker.

 

[0roo0roo]

slightly more parasitic then symbiotic.

as for racism.. immigration laws in mexico are pretty sh*tty. i don't think you can even own land if your not a citizen. let alone work.

funny how they are racist against their own indians too.


and frankly, i'm a little sick of seeing mexican flags on cars and stuff in ca. you don't see me flying a f*cking chinese flag.

 

[cheapgoose]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
They do the jobs you would never do. I garauntee, even if you were out of work, you wouldn't even think about doing some of the jobs they do for the pay they make.

Edit: I voted symbiotic.

 

[Miramonti]

They're working their ass off doing sh!t labor and are still living enough below their means to send money home?

They're not parasitic, they're an example that people should learn from.

Beyond that, its their piss-poor wages that keep you're produce prices down, so who's the real parasite?

Our industry is much more parasitic of them if anything.

If you get rid of the migrant workers, then you significantly reduce the margin within the industry because their labor costs soar, and then you're really going to nail the economy in many different ways.

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

It does reduce inflationary effects on our economy..
..although eventually it will all come back to this country, one way or another.

 

[StageLeft]

Anyone who asks this question is a racist

hmm, well 22/181 responders are stupid idiots. How about that.

Rephrase the question with Canada - would you still answer with the racist response? Dumbass[es]!

I don't have the numbers but I would have to think that overall economically Mexico is parasitic. I don't know how much money the US gives to mexico (any...? Probably), but more importantly I'm looking at this from an illegal immigration standpoint. I don't know what the trade deficit is either but it would be interesting to wonder where the US would be if Mexico dissapeared and whether the US would be economically better for it.