Mexico...Mexico is primarily in the mess it is because we have trained them to be our illegal drug provider of choice. That is also true of most of Central and South America. If we really cared about stopping the madness south of the border we'd legalize most drugs and educate...and rehabilitate our own.
The fact is this country has always used it's legal and penitentary system as an extension of it's racial priorities of the day. Best example are the sentences handed out for people using crack cocaine vice powered...crack is used by lower income users vice powered cocaine which is used by more wealthy users such as we might find on Wall Street..or McLean VA.
A country which has 33% of the black male community currently in prison is a prison state. And like the excesses on wall street will come back to bite us.
An interesting fact....Latinos Account for Half of U.S. Population Growth Since 2000. In a reversal of past trends, Latino population growth in the new century has been more a product of the natural increase (births minus deaths) of the existing population than it has been of new international migration. Of the 10.2 million increase in the Hispanic population since 2000, about 60% of the increase (or 6 million) is due to natural increase and 40% is due to net international migration, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. By contrast, more of the Hispanic population increase in the U.S. during the 1990s was the result of immigration (56%) rather than births over deaths of existing residents (44%), according to Pew Hispanic Center estimates.
Conclusion...all you hispanic haters better start learning spanish!
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1002/latino-population-growth
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