Startling difference

Seamless geography, amazing difference in culture and wealth.

For better
or worse, one culture is poor, the other not.

The fence is an ugly
thing, as are the reasons people risk their life to cross it.

The
immigrants from around the world that are here, that I know, are here for the
money. Sometimes other words are used such as health care (it's the money),
education (it's the money), jobs (it's the money).

Why can't Mexico fix
the money problem? It's the people.

I know there must be much evidence
that somehow, Mexicans are victims of history, but let's get on with it.

They are already nicely Catholic and Christian. But on a worldly level,
if the government structures are the problem, fix it. If the culture lends
itself to being poor and is more attractive than a more money making one, then
forget the money.

Stop running away.

Sorry, I don't like my
conclusion either.

link

Ahead of a meeting with President Bush, Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon is acknowledging his unhappiness with U.S. border security measures, saying the two countries need “bridges for progress and not walls that isolate and divide.”

Calderon acknowledged Wednesday that illegal border-crossings into the United States is an unpleasant issue for both countries, saying it raises enormous sensitivity in the United States and “takes away the most daring part of our population and divides our families.”
In a statement issued Wednesday from Mexico City, U.S. Ambassador Antonio Garza said Bush and Calderon planned to discuss problems along the border caused by criminals and narco-traffickers.