Canada Wooing Mexicans

(Mexico City, Mexico) The United States has been portrayed as a big meanie by even mentioning there is a border between the U.S. and Mexico and now Canada is using the image in a recruiting effort. From The Arizona Republic:

The Canadian government has been relaxing its immigration rules in an effort to attract students and skilled workers from all over the world. That, and the push by companies promising jobs and visas, is attracting Mexican professionals turned off by the Minuteman Project, new border walls, tougher U.S. entry requirements and laws like Proposition 200 in Arizona.

"Live in Canada!" says a Mexico City newspaper ad placed by a Canadian labor recruiter, as a photo of the Toronto skyline beckons. "Voted the No. 1 country in the world for living four years in a row," an immigration counseling company boasts on its Web site.

"Canada has its arms open to immigrants, and the United States has its arms closed. It's as simple as that," accountant Marcos Ramirez Posadas said as he stood in line with other visa applicants outside the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City.

What a cheap shot! Notice that they're looking for students and skilled workers, not millions of manual laborers that don't even speak English. They should just try tacking on 11 million illegals to their over-stretched welfare, education, and health care systems.

And, I don't know who voted Canada the No.1 country for living but, if it's so great, why do the illegals stay in the U.S.? It seems they should all be heading for the U.S. - Canadian border. They aren't doing that though. Are they? Eh?