[sunryse]

>Answer: by making it unworth their trouble to stay here. >they'll leave of their own accord.

You seem to be clueless to the level of poverty in some of these third world countries, Mexico included. You'd have to make it pretty darn bad here to get worse than where they come from.

[Old Student]

Bullseye! I know Morocco isn't Mexico, but parts of both are practically identical, except for Mosques instead of Cathedrals.

I spent a month in Rabat Sale, Morocco, once upon a time (about a decade ago). I got a chance to go to Fez, one of the holy cities of that part of the world. Our tour bus traveled on one of the National Highways of Morocco; a 2 lane road with no shoulders. Along the road were villages strung out like beads on the necklace of a small stream. We passed one village where a guy was loading water into two huge jars (in Mexico they call them Ollas, I believe) on the back of a donkey. Dipping it out of the stream, he was. At the next village, a mile or so up the road, there was a man standing at the stream, urinating into it.
There were "power poles" alongside the road, but they were on the opposite side from where the villages were; and the "power lines" looked like zipcord, the stuff that connects your desk lamp to the outlet. There were no branch circuits to any of the villages, either. No electrical power to the villages.