This was once a joke everyone got

"Things keep going this way, people are going to start heading the other way over the border to find work."  Remember that bit of sarcasm?  Wasn't too long ago, was it?

It ain't sarcasm any more.

There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.

"It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico," Sacramento's Mexican consul general, Carlos González Gutiérrez, said Wednesday. "We have become a middle-class country."

Mexico's unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.

Actually, this isn't a bad thing.  I bear no ill will towards Mexico or her people.  If the Mexican people are improving their lot in life and progressing towards a First World standard of living, then God bless 'em.  This is not only good for Mexico as a whole, but it's helping solve America's illegal invader issue.

"They're going back home because they can't get medical help or government assistance anymore," Frausto said, "And when it's getting so difficult for them to find a job without proper documentation, it's pushing them away."

Wow, they can't get a job without documentation?  Well, fancy that.  I bet I couldn't get a job in Mexico without showing papers, either.  And just forget government assistance--Mexico is quite clear that immigrants must prove that they will not be a burden on the country, among other stringent conditions.  Don't take my word for it--read the Mexican Constitution (pdf warning) for yourself.  Life sucks when you have to live by the law, doesn't it?

"He came over with his mom, who was in the process of losing her restaurant job," Barnes said. "It's frightening, especially for the children. They feel this is their country, they don't know anything else, and they find they can't get driver's licenses or jobs."

Well, no...you can't get a license or a job because--no matter how you 'feel' about it--this is NOT your country.  If you want this to be your country, and you're willing to work hard, obey the law and become a non-hyphenated American, then head on down to the American Consulate, apply for a visa and come in the front door.  I'll welcome you with open arms.  But you have no right to be here illegally.  Sorry your parents screwed you by choosing to be invaders instead of immigrants, but that's not our problem.

My mother, my father and my stepmother were all born outside the USA.  But all of them came here legally.  They filled out the forms, they paid the fees, they jumped through the hoops, and both my father and stepmother became citizens(and my stepmother took her Oath in English, not Vietnamese).  That we have coddled invaders for so long, is a slap in the faces of my family.  That we gave amnesty once, let alone are discussing doing so again, is a travesty of justice.

So, if things are improving in Mexico, and America's finally enforcing her own laws to the point where we end up with fewer invaders, then I can't see that as anything other than a win/win situation for everyone concerned.  Since wealth is not a zero-sum game, I'm not threatened by another country doing well, as long as they aren't screwing us in the process.  (But until the border crime issue is brought under control, I still say we need a wall...to keep criminals on both sides from easily escaping justice, if nothing else.)

Viva Mexico!  May your wayward children return safely, and long may you continue to grow and prosper!

(HT AoSHQ)