allow Mexico to export its apparently unwanted people rather than embrace much-needed economic reform,
1 we have a winner!
2 IMO those that come over the borders (for a job) are just the people Mexico should be doing whatever they can to keep at home. The ultimate answer is found in "embrace much-needed economic reform". A question I heard asked (on a talk show) was. How come we don't have the same problem on our northern border?
Oh, no, most of the people that are coming over from Mexico are exactly the ones that Mexico doesn't want. It's not the Mexican doctors and engineers and educated people who are risking death in the desert and climbing over fences and dodging the border patrol to get here; it's people who have no other choice. Those people who have no other choice are exactly the ones who the Mexican government doesn't need. I work with Mexican illegals every day, and believe it's significant that at least half of the illegals I see are illiterate to the point of not being able to write a complete sentence in Spanish, or any other language. Perhaps 10% are so illiterate that they can't recognize a single letter. That's some serious illiteracy. Add in the higher crime rates among the illegal Mexicans in the US than among other ethnic groups, and you can see that these are people that Mexico is better off without.
IMO, that country is such a complete wreck (it is FUBAR writ large) that economic reform is only one of the answers. There's also political reform needed. And a legal system based on Napoleonic code is, well, crap. Mexico has also no meaningful private property rights.
A question I heard asked (on a talk show) was. How come we don't have the same problem on our northern border?
Because Canada isn't a third world rat hole.
We DO have a problem on our northern border itjust gets no play. Mexico doesn't want those angry young men because if it had them it could very well have a revolt on its hands. Better for them by far if WE SHOULD HAVE A REVOLT ON OUR HANDS INSTEAD!