Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.
We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.
The immigration issue is a gateway issue for Hispanics, no doubt about it.
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.