<p>I meant that they come from a low socioeconomically class for so to speak. Not talking about superiority/inferiority issues.</p>
<p>Mini lies. The move grew as more men sent home what were large sums to their poor families. others saw that and followed. A trickle became a torrent.</p>
<p>You can check the statistics itself. Immigration was a trickle, and from southern Mexico, virtually non-existent until the mid-90s. </p>
<p>Putting that aside, in a decade of working around migrant farm labor camps for the State Board of Health, I NEVER met a single migrant laborer from southern Mexico until 1997. These folks - mostly young men - are not going home, and they aren’t sending money home - they have NO home - it was taken away from them. (By the way, this is another reason that some of the immigrants who received amnesty in the 1980s don’t speak out - they are culturally quite different from the new immigrants from southern Mexico/Guatemala.)</p>
<p>I have checked the stats. A total of maybe 2 million lost jobs in Ag. There have been 6 million illegals from Mexico. I seriously doubt even a majority of those who were in ag came to the US. Most just went to the larger cities in Mexico. Even poor US jobs are a huge pull to many Mexicans–not just the unemployed. While construction was booming they could easily make over $500 week. That’s more than twice the average monthly wage in Mexico.
You are just the consummate US hater who has to find the US to blame for any poor country’s problems.</p>
<p>I must say there is no way that the average monthly wage in Mexico is around $250, really, I mean I do get your point, but that it’s just not true. While going to the US even as an illegal inmigrant is really appealing to some, the whole situation in Mexico isn’t in that pesimistic point of view.</p>
<p>Whether there are a sizeable number of displaced Mexicans working here or not, does not change the fact that sending US wages to Mexico and other countries is a big part of those countries’ economy. I know around here it is a huge thing to make it as easy as possible for foreign workers to send money to their countries. It became an issue after 9/11 when security tightened, but it is such a source of funds for businesses here, that things were figured out very quickly. From what I have gotten from our local job site, articles and conversations, many of the workers are sending money out of the country to a home, to a family at that home. Many of those here do not want to be here, but cannot find a job to support their families back home.</p>
<p>[S.F</a>. IDs 10 possible illegal youths to feds](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/11/BAJV11NV6L.DTL&tsp=1]S.F”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/11/BAJV11NV6L.DTL&tsp=1)</p>
<p>It never stops:</p>
<p>[3</a> more juvenile migrant drug dealers escape](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/19/BAKO11RO8C.DTL&tsp=1]3”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/19/BAKO11RO8C.DTL&tsp=1)</p>
<p>The karma from this policy just keeps multiplying. The story being referenced below (i.e., the crime) was widely publicized in the Bay Area as a senseless & tragic event. The Dad was extremely well-liked & responsible, & the family upstanding & tightly knit. There’s been speculation that it was either a mistaken identity situation or a trophy killing linked to gang status (the incident was unprovoked), but the bigger point is that it was just another ill-fated spinoff of a ‘PC’, misguided policy that was noted in the thread opener.</p>
<p>[Slaying</a> suspect once found sanctuary in S.F.](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/19/MNK011MAFR.DTL&tsp=1]Slaying”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/19/MNK011MAFR.DTL&tsp=1)</p>
<p>[Panel</a> urges S.F. to help teen immigrant felons](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/19/MN0M12C0LH.DTL]Panel”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/19/MN0M12C0LH.DTL)</p>
<p>"A San Francisco city commission has taken a defiant stand against Mayor Gavin Newsom’s directive on young immigrant felons by urging officials to permit the offenders to remain in the city and help pay for their housing, job placement services and immigration lawyers.</p>
<p>Newsom announced last month - in an attempt to quell a growing controversy involving San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy - that the city would no longer shield young illegal immigrant felony offenders from federal authorities for possible deportation.</p>
<p>Three weeks later, the city’s little-known, 15-member Immigrant Rights Commission approved a resolution that ran counter to the mayor’s directive, urging the city to let young immigrant offenders stay in the city. The commission advises the Board of Supervisors and mayor about issues involving immigrants.</p>
<p>It called on San Francisco to pay nonprofit community groups to screen juvenile offenders to determine whether they should be entitled to city-paid immigration attorneys who would help them seek asylum as victims of abandonment, trafficking or abuse.</p>
<p>It also urged the city to provide adequate resources for placing the youths in “culturally appropriate” community programs approved by the juvenile court system, a policy that federal prosecutors have said was akin to harboring illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>And it advised the city to develop and expand safe housing, jobs and other opportunities for unaccompanied immigrant youth “because these youth are extremely vulnerable to exploitation by adult criminals.”</p>
<p>"“This is our position, the position the commission took,” said commission Chairman Jamal Dajani. " …“Are we a sanctuary city, are we not a sanctuary city?” he said. “We shouldn’t make knee-jerk reactions or abrupt decisions. We need to have a healthy discussion.”</p>
<p>"The commission took its action the day after The Chronicle reported that Edwin Ramos, 21, suspected in the June 22 slayings of Anthony Bologna and his two sons, Michael and Matthew, had committed two violent offenses when he was 17 but was spared from deportation to his native El Salvador under the city’s sanctuary policies. Ramos is in custody in connection with the three slayings.</p>
<p>Ramos was identified by police as a member of a violent street gang, MS-13. He had committed an assault and attempted robbery as a 17-year-old. Each time, he was reunited with family living in the city and spared deportation."</p>