Posted on 02/26/2013 10:54:02 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
Gallup finds that only 11% of Mexicans said they would emigrate to America if given the chance. That’s down from 21% in 2007. Keying off those findings, Walter Russell Mead nicely sums up the case for being skeptical that immigration reform will mean millions more low-income workers heading to the US:
Fears that America will be overrun by a mass of poor workers from Latin America are looking more and more like yesterday’s news. Birthrates in Mexico are falling, and the economic situation continues to improve. At 5 percent, Mexico’s unemployment rate is nearly three points below ours. In 2012, its GDP grew by nearly 4 percent, and foreign investors, encouraged by the turnaround, poured $57 billion into stocks and bonds in the first nine months. Forthcoming reforms in the telecommunications and energy sectors may also help those industries to boom. The country’s economic forecasts are so promising that the Financial Times has dubbed it the “Aztec tiger.”
The problem with doing a poll that shows a variation in answers in just a few years is that another few years with different conditions in the US and Mexico would show a different graph.
A lot of illegals lost their day jobs when CO legalized medical marijuana. Now pot is legal across the board here so more should be packing up. The economy is the coup de grace and that hasn’t even hit the big wall of 0bamaCare yet.
I haven’t forgotten.
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