Those of us who are of a certain age, i.e. old enough to remember the Cold War no doubt recall being told in the 70s and 80s that we "had to" permit a certain amount of illegal immigration from Mexico, because that "safety valve" was the only thing preventing Mexico from boiling over into violent revolution and going communist.

Well, here we are 20+ years later. The Cold War is over, and we have more illegal immigrants then ever. The argument is no longer that Mexico is going to go commie, but that our economy would collapse without the cheap, unskilled, uneducated labor Mexico exports to us. Once that excuse is debunked (if it has not been already), what will our elites tell us next? At some point, I do expect some official of our government to intone that we must "bow to reality" (Chertoff's words) and accept that so many Mexicans have taken up residence within our country as to make large parts of it de facto if not de juris Mexican territory.

Make no mistake about it, this is being done to us on purpose, and without our consent. Why are we permitting this to happen?

Posted by: c.o. jones on April 25, 2008 3:13 PM

Mexico is "running out of oil" and Pemex is losing money because the Mexican government is so nationalistic that it will not allow foreign direct investment into the petroleum industry in order to allow Pemex to access the deeper down oil.

There are two possibilities here. One, oil revenues continue to decline until the Mexican government collapses. Two, the Mexican government allows direct foreign investment in the petroleum industry in order to prevent the collapse of the Mexican government.

Posted by: kurt9 on April 28, 2008 5:24 PM






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