ACK! I TOTALLY SPACED ON THIS UNTIL LIKE... RIGHT NOW!
-calms down-
Sorry, Kay. Anyway...
New question: How do Mexico and the United States negatively affect each other? In my head, a whole host of negative effects spring from the fact that TJ is sort of a slum. Lots of poor people congregate on the border, trying to sneak in to America. A lot of crime is caused by it- remember the reading we had last week? It describes TJ as this terrible place- full of disease, of violence, of theft.
But I think that TJ is a slum just because it is next to the border (meaning the US hurts Mexico, too). The sorts of people who would be doing the things that make TJ bad just want in to the US- if we bordered, say, Africa, I believe some of the same things would be happening. It is caused by people wanting the good things we have here.
Lots of the crossers come over to use some of our amenities, such as the education, or the health care system. As in Breaking Through, some come over to actually get jobs. This can cause issues- the systems are paid for and ready to accomidate the tax payers, but if one doesn't live in the US and one takes advantage of these systems... problems arise.
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Good job Breed[: loved that you had so much information and used the book as a reference.
One thing I have noticed (just in my short excursions to TJ) is that it is not ALWAYS a slum, and in my head, I get to wondering about that a lot. What is it that causes the gap between the richest and the poorest to be so large? and that happens everywhere.
And how exactly does the United States harm Mexico? Is it simply by not extending an open invitation to immigration? or is it something more?
Thanks for your thoughts, Bryanna. A pleasure, as always. :)
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