[FITZ]

Yes --- the illegals are useful to the Mexican government's goal of becoming a completely parasitic one, surviving completely off the USA's economy. The problem for the future is that a parasitic economy is like one big welfare society. The workers leave the country and send money back to those who can't or won't work until they can get them over the border, then they don't send money back anymore. Of course many of these guys send money back just for a while, human nature takes it's course, they find a lover and forget the wife and kids back home. Mexico is losing control over it's crime problem in some areas makes our inner cities look nice and safe.

[getget]

VII. PREPARED FOR A CHANGING WORLD

274. Enhanced leadership and strategic management in the United Nations: As a result of these actions and recommendations, the Secretariat will have a leadership structure and work programme with four main sectors reflecting the Organization's primary strategic areas: peace and security; economic and social affairs; development cooperation; humanitarian affairs, with human rights as a cross-cutting issue. The Senior Management Group and the executive committees for each sector will promote greater coherence among the United Nations departments, programmes and funds and provide a framework for reform. The proposed appointment of a Deputy Secretary-General will enhance the ability of the Secretary-General to manage such challenges as cross-functional sectors and complex emergencies. The recommendation that the General Assembly might periodically adopt a focus for its work is aimed at enhancing its role in setting strategic directions and priorities for the United Nations.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/hchr/unrefor.htm

[El Conservador]

Another aspect of this is that the Mexican rural workforce is almost nonexistent, because almost all of them have already crossed the border.

If I dropped you in any little Mexican town, especially in the states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and you ask every family in town if they have relatives "al otro lado" (at the other side, which is the almost Eldoradesque name they give to the United States), most likely 90% of them will say "yes".

The money transfers are, as it has been explained, most of the livelyhood of rural Mexico, thus sparing the elitist Mexican government from taking care of its populace, since the "migrantes" have already done that.

But there's a flipside to this: Mexican workers coming from the same town form "civic organizations" in the United States that pool and send money to the municipal administration, so it can be spent in infrastructure projects (parks, sewage, schools, roads...), and this takes away from the Mexican Federal government. Mexican state governors would rather cater to their communities overseas than to the instaters.

But the Mexican government is no fool, and hasn't conceded the right to vote to its citizens abroad, because if the government did so, it'd be giving away the influence to the citizens abroad, which have both political and economic power (just try to stop money transfers to Mexico for one month, and see what happens...).

The Mexican government has awoken to the fact that 15 million Mexicans mainly in the United States are a formidable political player, but now they'll have to mess with an 800-pound gorilla.