Mexico provides a constant stream of bodies looking to suck the government teat. Betcha not one in ten would come here if they had to pay their own way. It’s the lure of free stuff which is the primary magnet to the third world.
“It’s the lure of free stuff which is the primary magnet to the third world.”
Today there’s no question that welfare does play some roll, but it is not the “primary magnet”. No welfare in the 20s - 60s for legal or illegal immigrants, but they still came.