JohnnyBoy
Dec 12, 2008, 10:06 AM
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Re: [Carron] so what does the border fence look like ?
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"...getting a visa to travel into the US from Mexico is much more difficult than for us to head south..."
That is the biggest understatement since Noah said: "It looks like rain."
I have never heard of an American being denied a Mexican tourist visa, although I will concede in advance that it probably has happened, but Mexicans are denied US tourist visas all the time, regularly, and that is after waiting for hours in long lines, paying $100 or more, non-refundable, one-time only, to make application for the visa. They are denied, with little or no explanation, and all that money is just gone. More often than not the Mexican applicant is given virtually nothing by way of explanation why his/her application was being denied. At least this is what Mexicans I know have told me. If a reason is given, it is so vague as to be meaningless.
And to say that the British welcome Mexicans to Britain, as tourists, students, short term residents, is probably one of the most inaccurate things I have ever heard. Brits are notoriously racist and treat virtually anyone who doesn't speak the local dialect like a native with complete contempt...so I have been told on several occasions, primarily by Chinese students trying to study in Britain. They are encouraged to come and enroll, but they get the treatment by landlords, shopkeepers, and the general public. Ironically (at least to me), as I understand from Mexican friends who recently travelled in Europe, the Brits were out done in their racism against these Mexicans only by the Spaniards.
It is incredibly easy to get a Mexican tourist visa for six months. Mexicans are among the least racist people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I travelled throughout Europe for six weeks during the summer of 2007, including Great Britain, and while I never had a problem and no one ever looked sideways at me, I certainly would not have been surprised to catch some flack along the way, given the bad reputation America has in the world.
But not in Mexico. Mexicans are just as aware as Europeans are of our (USA) malfeasance in the world, but they are too polite and too politically correct to let that guide them in their dealings and relationships with Americans in general, certainly not with individual Americans, who, they realize, have little or no control or influence over the leadership in the USA who have created the ill-will.
And that ridiculous fence is just another thorn in the side of anyone and everyone who cares at all about improving our image in the world, in general, and our relationship with the Mexicans, in specific.
I am totally against illegal immigraton by Mexicans, or anyone from any where in the world, into the USA. The solution, getting the 10-12 million of them to leave and convincing others not to go to the USA looking for work, is not a fence. If there are no jobs for them, they will leave and others will not go there. It is a question of drying up the job opportunities. Which of course would wreak further havoc on the economy, but I don't think we can have it both ways...lost of cheap, legal labor. And the same principle holds true, running in the opposite direction, for the drug problem. If Americans would stop buying the drugs, or if the USA would legalize and control all drugs, that problem, too, would be significantly remedied. No fence required. In both cases the answers and solutions lie within the will, commitment, and resolve of the Americans. But America is apparently too busy with its so-called foreign policy (read: messing in the business and affairs of the rest of the world, eg. invading sovereign nations and deposing dicators [who used to be our buddies], too busy policing the world). Maybe when we get the rest of our former enemies all set up like we have in Western Europe and Japan, maybe then we will have time and money to solve these domestic problems. But I think we have a long row to hoe making them FORMER enemies; just too, too many of them are CURRENT enemies. I hope we don't do that with the Mexicans.
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