No end in sight. There are hundreds of thousands of street children in Mexico who have no hopes if they stay there. Conditions in Mexico are worsening in spite of 1/5 of their population already in the USA. Plus there are all the Latin American countries --- immigration from poverty stricken Brazil is picking up.
I wouldn't put Brazil into the same mix. A few from there, of course. But I know a highly educated head nurse from there that's taking the NCLEX exam up here to get a job in a nice hospital. She could teach also. Things are screwy in Brazil right now, but you should see her house and pool there! Her relatives here own businesses!
I know. I have been all through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Things are tough down there but it is the responsibility of the people to fix their own country.
They are all proud people and proud people do not flee their own country to live in another country while maintaining their old identities.
We need a nation wide Prop. 187 type law that would cut off all of the freebies to these people. We also need to enforce our existing immigration laws.
As one FReeper put it; "If you turn off the light, the moths will go away".