a good reply

maureen finally got a great responce.....i still think the others suck......
Maureen but I wanted to add a comment from Technosailor’s site that I thought was great!
Alan Aspuru-Guzik Says:
March 28th, 2005 at 10:29 pm
Well, I came here via the weblog competition, and found this discussion thread. Here is my opinion.
x) When Europe started free trade agreements with Eastern Europe and extended the economic community to their countries, they did CONSCIOUS EFFORT to improve the economic situation there. The Economist (a right wing magazine) criticized the US strongly because instead of helping México (members of NAFTA) catch up economically, it continued draining it’s economy with the World Bank and IMF predatory policies, and did not invest in it as a REAL trading partner to raise standards of living, and therefore eliminate the standard of living imbalance that leads to the inmigration that you seem to worried about. FYI, the size of the economy of México, as well as the number of citizens is comparable to the new 10 countries that are joining the EU (Poland, etc…). The growth of the Mexican economy is of future benefit for the US and Canada.
x) Reiterating my point: Since the crisis of the 80’s and the Tequila effect of 1994, both CREATED by economic conditions imposed by the World Bank (US puppet) policies, the Mexican economy became weaker. The governments of México, as puppets of the US aggravated the situation.
x) The revolution that you call for in Latin America is happening. Maybe you won’t like it, due to your right-leaning ideas, but happily, it is a LEFTIST revolution (Chavez in Venezuela, Lula in Brazil, Tavaré Vazquez in Uruguay, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in México when he wins in 2006, Evo Morales in Bolivia, when he wins in the next election, Kirchner in Argentina, and even Castro in Cuba (!!) [I am a social-democrat, so I don’t like dictatorships, but I prefer Castro to Pinochet and other right-wing dictators which were SUPPORTED by the US in the “name” of fighting “communism”!]). This revolution seeks to have an independent Latin America, free of US intervention.
You might not like it, but the way to stop the inmigration is for Latin America to have the profits of their own natural resources: that means Chávez using OIL PROFITS for the poor, The Bolivians taxing Texaco and Chevron for extracting oil and gas in their countries and kicking out Enron and other water transnationals.
I am the son of a LEGAL inmigrant. My father is Mexican and was working here for Fairchild Electronics when I was born. Then we moved back to México. But other people, that are sons or daughters of inmigrants and are born on this land have the same rights as other Americans. Your proposal is ridiculous, as stated above, it entails punishing UNBORN people for whatever is the situation of their [MOSTLY ENTERPRENEURIAL AND HARD-WORKING] parents.
I thought that the right-wingers were for defending the rights of unborn people… “Oy vei, Oh my god, ¡Dios mío!”