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Mexico is very interesting, and different from the US

Jun 21, 2018, 1:46 PM

in many ways. One thing I have never seen or heard of is two Mexican citizens being divorced. Ever. In Mexico you marry for life. Period. If you want a divorce, you just leave. Woman leaves man or vice versa. Then they go find another "wife/husband" and start a new family. They never marry that second spouse.

Another huge difference is that children are expected to support their parents. If a man and woman can have 5-6 boys, when they're old enough (15-16 usually) they go to the US and work. They each live (by their own choosing) in poverty in the US, and in far worse poverty than most Americans can fathom. The money they save is all sent back to support their parents and/or younger siblings. When you can have 6 children working in the US saving perhaps half their income for mom and dad, and they send it to Mexico, the parents live better in their old age than at any other time in their lives. BUT, say you have no children, then you die an early death.

There is a huge incentive to have children in Mexico and send them to the US to work. Whole families rarely move. Most have no plans to permanently stay in the US. As the children age, they move back to Mexico. Sometimes the children rotate between Mexico and the US. But there is never any indication the family wants to move to the US. The US is a place to work and live earning money to send home. Home remains Mexico. The exception to this rule is if the person meets a woman/man in the US and they start living together. Say a man and woman are married in Mexico and have 3 children. Man and 2 boys come to the US to work, leaving wife and daughter in Mexico. Husband finds a new wife in the US. Stops sending $$$ to the wife and daughter in Mexico and supports his "American" family. Those cases are the only instances where the plans change to a full and permanent move. If they don't find a spouse in the US, they always return to Mexico. If they do they don't because they can't really.

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No immigration bills were passed during any of those presidencies? And if Congress won't pass certain bills, isn't that because people don't want their representatives to pass those bills enough to vote for somebody will pass them?

The thing is, this is a very small piece of the overall immigration issue. But still, many Democrats don't want to end catch and release, and many Republicans don't want to increase the amount of time children can be held by the government without ending catching release and other enforcement measures. The real problem here is that Democrats don't want to admit that there was a legal issue involved, and they want to keep the onus on the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy.

New loophole - just bring your kid with

And just like that, a new cottage industry forms

thats well established***

So that's better somehow?

thats the old loophole***

What about the parents

Mexico is very interesting, and different from the US

more dreamers ugh***

Well sure. You didn’t think America separated kids from

Re: Well sure. You didn’t think America separated kids from

Not sure everybody knows about the Flores consent decree***

Or cares.***

Re: New loophole - just bring your kid with

This is just the old policy, not a new loophole

Yep.***

Congress will not work with Trump on immigration

Oh, ok, so this has been a pressing issue before?

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