It needs to happen.
Why should a country of 135 million, with vastly more natural wealth than Canada have an average yearly earning of just under $10k per capita, while the average Canadian lives in utter squalor with earnings of $54k per year?
Further, why are Mexicans walking miles to obtain clean water to drink and cook with, while Canadians labor for the same by simply turning a handle on a faucet?
Mexico has a GDP of $1.1 Trillion , while Canada’s GDP is $1.7 Trillion. How and why does Canada have a 40% greater economy with a population that is merely 25% of Mexico?
Education
A more healthy economy
A more robust middle class
A government that doesn’t game the citizens to enrich a select few
These seem elemental things to us, but then they aren’t in Mexico.
I have been trying to push the idea that our nation could help the average Mexican a lot by investing there. This would not need to be at our expense. We’re talking about low wage jobs that could spark the economy down there.
This wouldn’t take our jobs. It would simply create jobs down there for Mexicans.
I’m talking low budget fast food and the like. Once that kicks off, you have more income flowing into the homse in the area. That means they can spend more. Other businesses crop up because there’s more expendable income.
Clothing, household goods, and other things would start selling more. The people selling those items would invest more and other businesses would crop up.
In twenty years, the Mexicans could have much better communities.
I don’t have all the answers, but with some good minds brought together on this, I think we could help the average Mexican in ways that would cause them to be less inclined to break into the U.S.
If they can support their families down there, they won’t be motivated to come here.