Sanction Mexico to Raise Its Minimum Wage to Equal the US Minimum Wage

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http://www.change.org/petitions/the-united-states-government-sanction-mexico-to-raise-its-minimum-wage-to-equal-the-us-minimum-wage#

Why This Is Important

Fifty per cent of the undocumented living in the United States come from Mexico. The Mexican undocumented would not come or stay in the United States if they could make a decent living wage working safely at home with their families in Mexico.

The current minimum wage in Mexico is about $5.00 per day, yet one billion dollars of trade is exchanged between the 1% of the United States and Mexico per day.

The common citizens of both the United States and Mexico suffer while the 1% of both countries continue to profit. This inequality must stop in order for the 99% of both the United States and Mexico to prosper.

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The U.S. and Mexican 1% Are Tag -Team Raping US

Since 2006 Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the U.S. backed drug war in Mexico have left somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 people dead. Not to worry, according to Napolitano the border has never been safer.

Do you ever wonder why we seldom if ever hear any U.S. politicians criticize the corrupt, cartel-run Mexican "government" for anything? Could it be that Mexican trade, oil, labor and drug profits are more important to U.S. politicians than the human rights and human lives of our neighbors to the South?

Are the corporate-corrupt 1% who run our "government" in or on the same bed with the 1% cartel-corrupt who run the Mexican "government"?

I think so. We (the US taxpayer and the good citizens of Mexico) are being tag teamed raped by the bi-national 1% and their failed drug and immigration policies. Yet American voters swallow the 1%'s politicians' propaganda like some magic pill that will make the undocumented pay and be taken away.

There is a portion of the bi-national 1% who profit from the failed drug and immigration policies of both countries. If American voters don't wake up, smell the coffee and blame those who are really responsible, these problems will never end.

Why does the Mexican "government" happily export an entire sub-class of its citizens to the U.S.? Because said "government" does not have to provide for these people (the U.S. taxpayers will do that)! And don't forget the billions in remittances and the millions in foreign aid that is yearly sent back into Mexico from the U.S.

Question: would the Mexican undocumented (who roughly make up 50% of the undocumented in the U.S.) come here or stay here if they had basic social services and a comparable living minimum wage working at home with their families?

We are being lied to with these immigration and drug issues just as we have been lied to about jobs, housing, health care, and war.

I support the OWS movement in tackling all of these problems. The truth about greed will set us free.

OWS - I Know and I Know That They Know

I don't expect OWS to have to have all of the answers in order for me to be certain about the movement.

At some gut level, voice inside certainty, I know and I know that they know.

I am also certain that the corrupt, corporate run, capitalist politics of the Democratic and Republican parties have taken our homes, our jobs, our health, and our children's and grand children's futures.

As a father, husband, brother, grandfather, and human blessed by God to be a citizen of the USA, I will do everything within my power to stop the madness of those members of the 1% who have sold their souls to greed and who have lost touch with their own humanness.

But For The Grace of God Go I

As a retired US Border Patrol/INS/ICE agent who has witnessed the death of not only two co-workers, but the death of migrants too, I ask people who are so angry about immigration to consider the possibility that the undocumented are really a symptom of a much larger and insidious problem, and not the cause of that problem. 

First of all, may I ask you two questions about the Mexican undocumented?  I focus upon the Mexican undocumented because they are our direct neighbors and make up almost 50% of the total amount of undocumented present in the US.  (I later will also combine illegal Mexican immigration and illegal Mexican drugs because they are so intricately connected).    

(1)  Would the Mexican undocumented come or stay here if they could make a comparable living wage and have comparable social services living and working safely at home with their families?

(2)  Why do we seldom if ever hear US politicians criticize the corrupt Mexican government for its contribution to, and its responsibility for illegal Mexican immigration to the US?

Failed immigration is very similar to other failures in our country which are destroying the middle class.  Those include but are not limited to our disastrous mortgage meltdown, failed health care, high unemployment, the high exportation of jobs, and our high cost of living.

The bi-national corrupt 1% (US and Mexico) who are ripping off US taxpayers have much to gain by our failed immigration policies.  The Mexican rich export a sub-class of poor and the US rich benefit from their cheap labor.  Of course much if not all of the education and medical costs are borne by US taxpayers, not by the US rich.     

Yearly these very same undocumented send home  billions in remittances to help support their families in Mexico who try to survive on $5.00 a day (not an hour) pay.

Are you aware that trade between the US and Mexico is very important to both countries’ economies?   http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/05/142020.htm

Mexico is our second largest provider of oil.  One billion dollars a day in commerce goes across our mutual border per day.  Who do you think assembles much of our electronics and clothing at the maquiladoras on our border (earning $5.00 per day)?  Who do you think profits by those US owned maquiladoras?  Who do you think is now the most profitable big box store and largest retail employer in Mexico? http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5724.html

Do you know that the largest influx of Mexican undocumented to the US occurred after Clinton pushed for the passage of NAFTA?  I assume you know what NAFTA did to many American jobs, but do you know what NAFTA did to the small Mexican business owners and corn farmers?   http://economyincrisis.org/content/illegal-immigration-and-nafta

Finally, do you have any idea how many people have died in Mexico since the US backed drug war was officially started in there 2006?  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10681249

Do you have any idea of how much profit the cartel elite in Mexico or the corporate elite in the US make off of our bi-national war on drugs?  Consider this article by Professor James Petras, “Imperialism:  Bankers, Drug Wars and Genocide”  http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1855

I ask you to please educate yourselves before myopically blaming the undocumented for coming here.  The problem is much more insidious than our politicians would like us to believe.  

How About Non-partisian Indictments for Them All!

In response to "Arrest Bill Clinton" by Marc A. Thiessen

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/arrest-bill-clinton/2011/12/12/gIQACQ7wpO_story.html

How about non-partisan indictments for them all!  What in God’s name gives these politicians the right to break the law?  

Presidential authorization for the use of the terrorist acts of war, assassination, torture and kidnapping are not only illogical and immoral, but they are illegal too.

Our leaders and their cronies have signed, sealed, and delivered jihad against America for generations to come.   

What about Clinton’s, Bush’s, and Obama’s negligence and/or involvement in the sub-prime mortgage meltdown that has terrorized millions of Americans?  Greenspan, Rubin, Summers, Paulson, Geithner, and their Wall Street bankster cronies should all be brought up on charges of misleading American taxpayers for profit!

While we are at it add Mexican President Felipe Calderon and those in Washington who support his failed, US backed Mexican drug war to this list of “evil doers.”

Since 2006 40,000 people have been killed in this failed Mexican “war for drugs”.  Washington uses our tax dollars via Merida funding in order to support the corrupt Mexican government in its attempt to eliminate cartel competition.  The Calderon administration’s use of military and police terrorism has only been outmatched by the cartels’ use of terrorist tactics itself.  

I suggest reading Amy and David Goodman’s book “Static –Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back” for an eye opening discussion of the insidious ways of our government.

Please click and sign:  

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/sanction-mexican-government-until-it-provides-its-own-citizens/tFYRTCnv

We Petition The Obama Administration to:

Sanction The Mexican Government Until It Provides for Its Own Citizens

The Mexican Government does not provide a decent minimum living wage for its own citizens.
The current daily wage for Mexican workers in Mexico is about five dollars a day. That is $5.00 a day, not $5.00 per hour.
Undocumented Mexicans make up about one-half of all of the undocumented people currently living within the U.S. These good people would not come to the U.S. illegally or stay in the U.S. illegally if they could make a decent living wage working at home with their families in Mexico.
Many U.S. jobs held by Mexico's undocumented would free up for U.S. citizens if the Mexican Government would provide decent living wages for its own citizens at home.
Sanction the Mexican Government until it takes financial responsibility for its own citizens living in the U.S.

Created: Dec 02, 2011

Issues: Economy, Human Rights, Immigration

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