There are many
strange elements in the current debate over illegal immigration, but none
stranger than the mostly ignored role of Mexico….. Until 2011, when it passed
reforms, Mexico had among the most draconian immigration laws in the world.
Guatemala has criticized Mexico for initiating construction of a fence along
its southern border. Mexico has zero
tolerance for illegal immigrants who seek to work inside Mexico, happen to
break Mexican law or go on public assistance -- or any citizens who aid them………
Translated, that idea of demographic equilibrium apparently means that Mexico
tries to withhold citizen status from those who do not look like Mexicans or
have little skills to make money.…… In 2005, the Mexican government published a
"Guide for the Mexican Migrant" -- in comic book form. The
pictographic manual instructed its own citizens how best to cross illegally
into, and stay within, the United States. Did Mexico assume that its departing
citizens were both largely illiterate and without worry about violating the
laws of a foreign country?
Yet Mexico counts
on these expatriate poor to send back well over $20 billion in annual
remittances -- currently the third-largest source of Mexican foreign exchange….ToRead More….
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