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November 16, 2007

Whatever happened to Mexicans' dreams?

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Check out my Pajamas Media exclusive today on the Mexican government's major malfunctions, and how they've left those people streaming across the southern border by the wayside:

"They say 'denial' is a river in Egypt, but it’s actually a desert in Mexico.

As much as Mexico’s politicians stress that the dangerous trek across this expanse to slip across the American border is a pursuit of the American dream, they’ve paid no attention to Mexicans’ dreams.

Because for every Mexican who spends a season or more a world away from his family just to send home needed cash, there is a broken dream back home. Behind that is a broken system, a government that seems to have given up on utilizing the country’s resources, on valuing hard workers, and on keeping families together in their ancestral homelands for generations to come without living in fear of vicious druglords or abject poverty..."

Read the whole thing!

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