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EL34x4

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12. Are these ex-pats working as wage earners making $6/hr?

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:42 PM

Jan 2017

Are they displacing local, native-born laborers?

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Mexico can and should invite American Workers to move to Mexico [View all] Xipe Totec Jan 2017 OP

Why would Mexico want to do that? dumbcat Jan 2017 #1

Why not? Xipe Totec Jan 2017 #2

And Make $6/hr?? TomJulie Jan 2017 #3

Do you have any idea how far $6/hr goes in Mexico? Xipe Totec Jan 2017 #4

In much of Mexico they would not be allowed to buy a home. braddy Jan 2017 #5

Not if they become legal residents, which they can do, without losing US citizenship. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2017 #7

t is better than it was 4 years ago, but still not truly allowed everywhere. braddy Jan 2017 #8

I've been traveling into Mexico more frequently of late Xipe Totec Jan 2017 #9

I have friends who live there as well, they like it. braddy Jan 2017 #10

Are these ex-pats working as wage earners making $6/hr? EL34x4 Jan 2017 #12

I sense your hostility, but I'll answer your question directly Xipe Totec Jan 2017 #13

The wall? Organize Alice11111 Jan 2017 #6

Does Mexico need American workers?? jmg257 Jan 2017 #11

Mexico needs skilled workers Xipe Totec Jan 2017 #14

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