One Country's Expansive Welcome to Immigrants

ALERT!
SENATE CLOSES DEBATE ON IMMIGRATION BILL!

Details at:
www.gopusa.com/news/2006/may/0525_senate_debate.shtml
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Modern, Forward Thinking, Immigration Policy!

Mexico’s President, Vincente Fox, is currently in the USA, making the rounds of four US states. Fox will, no doubt, take this opportunity to tell those of us who are Legal Citizens of the US what is so wrong with our immigration policies. He will, no doubt, try the “guilt trip” psychology on us, to convince of us of the “wrongness” of our cold, hard heartedness, toward those poor Mexicans making their desperation moves across our border into the Land of Milk and Honey. He may well slap our collective wrists, and rap our collective knuckles, for our harsh actions towards 11 million or so undocumented aliens we are able to, well, document.

Now, given that I have done a bit of supposing above, lets take a look at the open immigration laws of a country, to the south of the US, and their awe inspiring, modern, warm hearted, open armed way of embracing those who immigrate, legally, into their country.

As you peruse the outstanding points of this mystery county’s policy toward immigrants, try to visualize how their wonderful immigration policy could be applied to President Vincente Fox’s people who immigrate into the US.

For reasons of brevity, we will just hit the high spots of this forward thinking country’s immigration law.

As you consider their immigration law, below, remember… this applies to LEGAL Immigrants to their country and, try to guess which country, in the Americas, has adopted THIS policy:

1. Only professionals or investors can immigrate to the country. No unskilled laborers will be allowed in. Investors must be able to invest at least 40,000 times the daily average wage. If they can't, they are not allowed in.

2. Immigrants may purchase property, but locations and availability will be limited. Ocean front property cannot be purchased by immigrants. It is exclusively for citizens born in the country.

3. Immigrants cannot vote nor can they be elected to any public office.

4. Immigrants cannot collect any type of government assistance.

5. Immigrants cannot protest the countries government, policies or president.

6. Immigrants cannot display a flag of a foreign country.

7. Immigrants who have illegally entered the country will be found and imprisoned.

Sound kind of harsh?

Well, these are laws that are currently part of the Immigration Laws of… you guessed it… Mexico!

Now, consider, for a moment… if the US adopted this county’s policy toward, oh, say, just the "illegals" entering our country, would we even be having this conversation about sealing, and securing, the Southern Border of the United States?

Do you see just the hint of hypocrisy here?

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