Do you think part of the illegal immigration problem, is that our own companies keep hiring the illegals?

[Rico]

I agree with you entirely, except it's hard to change something that's been going on (on both sides of the border) for a hundred years. For instance if your family were farmers for several generations who relied on the cheap labor of illegals, should you go out of business to set the situation straight? You would say it's unfair.

[Bob H]

Don't blame President Fox for the extreme poverty in Mexico. There is only so much wealth within a given country, & Mexicans control much less than half of theirs. The rest is controlled by the same corporations, mostly in the US, who benefit from the large, cheap labor pool of illegal immigrants. Fox can only do so much before stepping on the profits of those companies. Any Central or South American leader who has tried has been demonized as Communist. Chavez in Venezuela & Ortega in Nicaragua are good examples of this. Both were elected by their people in fair elections. Ortega served a term, was elected to go home, & recently re elected for another term. This isn't the Communism I learned in school.

You are very right for not blaming the victims in the illegal immigration debate. Whenever living standards between 2 countries vary greatly, the poor will emigrate to the richer country. As long as the corporations profit from their labor, they will continue to hire them.