Some 70 percent of legal foreign-born Mexicans come from the U.S. The next largest number, about 5 percent, hail from Guatemala, according to the Global Post.
According to Mexican law, illegal immigrants are “never” arrested and sent to jail unless they have committed a crime in Mexico or in their home countries.
Once foreigners have been living in Mexico legally for five years, they can become citizens.
If it is discovered someone is living in the country without the appropriate documents, as long as they have not committed a crime they are required to pay a fine and then can begin the process of regularization to get on track to citizenship.
“To be undocumented in Mexico is not a criminal offense,” said Jorge Durand, a professor of the study of social movement at the University of Guadalajara and author of more than a dozen books on Mexican migration.
According to Mexico’s immigration law, illegal entry into Mexico, violating terms of a visa or trying to get back into the country after being deported could result in a fine equivalent to 20 to 100 days of minimum wage in Mexico — or between $83.60 and $441.00. (As of January 2010, there were three different minimum wages, the equivalent of $4.41, $4.29 or $4.18 a day depending on place of residence.)
The one violation that may carry a prison sentence is aiding in the transport of illegal immigrants into Mexico. This could result in 12 years in jail and a hefty fine of 10,000 days of minimum wage pay — $41,800 to $44,100.
But, generally, those in the country illegally are fined, told to make their status legal and sent on their way.
huh? legal mexicans (US) are illegally entering Mexico to live? Why? Do we send the welfare checks to them there?
deadwhitemale,
No, Americans are entering Mexico illegally, to live. Folks just like you.
Yeah, and they are a pro to the country not a con!
Americans are for sure not picking up a calworks check at the local Mexican social service; if there is such a thing?
I don’t think there is any American’s having babies to stay in Mexico!
I think he is talking about anchor babies.
What Zorro is not telling you is that after you dodge the beheadings and killings in what used to be a peaceful and beautiful country (one in which I lived for 9 years as a youth, probably longer than Art) is so Corrupt that officials don’t care about the illegal status of non-criminal gringos because unlike their welfare, medical, transportation and jail housed illegal Mexican nationals in the U.S., they actually add to the Mexican economy. You see, living in Mexico without papers is just easer because to go through the Mexican government “mordida” (bribery) may lay, it’s just better to sit back and have a margarita (on the rocks only of course as God intended). What is deeper and more evident is the realization that in fact all cultures are not equal. Some cultures are inferior and that does not sit well with out-of-the-box Latino Americans. Everyone must understand that culture = conduct. Food, dress, music are all “heritage” not to be confused with culture, which is conduct.
While holding on to “La Raza” (the race, as in racial) to have “street cred” on one hand, they, Mexican-Americans (legal or otherwise) know that after billions of foreign aid, billions in free trade, Mexico’s nationalistic love affair with the very “idea” of Zapata or Pancho Via (two murdering border bandits) has got them nowhere. As long as they are in the minority here in the U.S., they will draw from the great bounty that is America built and run on a European model of excellence. Which does not make it better because it is a European built model. It’s just based on superior ideas shared by the majority and a belief in something bigger than one’s self, one’s barrio, and one’s Raza.
A believe in a nation-state and a purpose for greatness and goodness in the world. The Mexican culture and in particular the Latino culture will never get this. It is too ingrained about “mi familia,” “mi gente” (my family, my people) to ever climb out of the box. So ask yourselves when you drive down the streets in Santa Ana, is it a cleaner, safer, more appeasing to invite people to live there since the great illegal migration or not. When California becomes so over taxed in having to educate, support, jail, and provide medical services to millions of illegal Mexican, the rich business interests and employers will leave (as they are now) and California will be a Santa Ana wasteland with a small gringo belt on the beach.
In a sense the final reconquesta (re-concurring of California) and it is then that the retired gringo will migrate to all points remaining beautiful to enrich their lives in peace like, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Belize, Brasilia and Argentina. You see the superior culture (behavior) wins out every time, and those countries named who have understood the winning formula of world economics goes beyond carnitas, carne asada, rice, beans and beer (though I do miss these beautiful things). So I say to my liberal gringo pendejo congressional representatives, unless we get control of our country, your children will be forced to drive through the Santa Ana’s of the world. Then my children will learn Spanish and move to the out-of-the-box Euro-friendly and business minded countries to the South, and Mexico will just be an enlarged corrupt state but with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
OMG…You sir/madam just nailed it!
Tipping my hat! 🙂
I know a lot of Mexicans/third world women have children to make it less likely they would be deported; but don’t you think it is kinda crass to call a child an “anchor baby?’
I do however think you should see a video made by the racist thug Naui; a thirteen year old boy giving a kkk type speech in Santa Ana about the cross and how he renounces the cross because it was given to him by WHITE people!
I think the kids name is Luis!
Does anyone know where the kid is when making the speech and who is the group he is with?
On Naui (also known as Nazi) video achieves!
Check it out!
thats that nau chipolti chilli con carne what ever he is . the guy is a total race baiter , the mexican jesse /al sharpton .