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2006-05-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Solving the Border's "Baby Predicament" - by Austin Bay

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Posted by 3dc 2006-05-17 13:15|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What's changed since 1993?

NAFTA. Dump it now.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-17 14:22|| 2006-05-17 14:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Ross was right. Just a "Huge Sucking Sound."

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-17 15:00|| 2006-05-17 15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 He just got the direction wrong.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-17 15:04|| 2006-05-17 15:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The long-term solution lies in expanding economic and political opportunity in Mexico. That's what NAFTA was really about -- evolving Mexico. In the short term, however, that doesn't pay bills at the border hospital.

That will require the Mexicans to alter their Constitution. Not going to happen from within. That means the only source of real change is from outside. Best to use the NG troops to start building forward bases along the frontier, just like we did in Iraq.

Posted by Elmatch Elmolugum1622 2006-05-17 16:07|| 2006-05-17 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 The Government and elites that control the political partiers will hold course. After a new "imigration law" they will just ignore it and profit from doing so.

Posted by SPoD 2006-05-17 16:18|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-17 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 no anchor babies! Repeal the amendment

Posted by Frank G 2006-05-17 17:16|| 2006-05-17 17:16|| Front Page Top

#7 At the first indications of impending birth, a pregnant Mexican woman crosses the border in a car. As her labor begins in earnest, her driver drops her off at the hospital. The doctors confront an immediate challenge: A baby is definitely being born. In the typical case, the soon-to-be mother has had no prenatal care.

Substitute 'heart-attack' and you have another and just as expensive problem.

Posted by Pappy 2006-05-17 20:35|| 2006-05-17 20:35|| Front Page Top

#8 but one that, while costing taxpayers as much, doesn't entitle the kid and the breeders to citizenship

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-17 20:41|| 2006-05-17 20:41|| Front Page Top

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