Reply #29: Who is heartless is the Mexican elite. [View All]

I understand having compassion for people caught in the cross-hairs of this situation. The poor from Mexico and Central America and citizens of the U.S.

Mexico isn't an impoverished country, their GDP of $10,000 per person annually puts the country in the top half of the world. Yet when compared to other countries it's poverty rate is more than twice that of similar countries. Russia for example has a population with 17% living in poverty, whereas Mexico is at 40%. It's the way the money is distributed that's the problem. If the government collected taxes at the rate of their U.S. counterparts, and used the money to improve the quality of life for it's citizens, instead of encouraging people to immigrate illegally to the U.S, both countries would be better off.