I do not belive in " a plan "....just apathy and economics.... the people come here for the money.... the government lets them for the same reason plus the fact it reduces their internal problems. No matter what the central government of Mexico may think....it is a low priority and something they can not control.....low level officials are corruptable and it is impossiuble to plug the leak without their support and MAJOR costs to an already impoverished government.
My concern is that these "amatuer" border guards will over-react and make the situation worse not better. We have already had an attempted massacre by other vigilantees.
The answer lies in energizing the government at all levels to correct a VERY dangerous situation. but I have seen no sign they are even listening....much less prepared to act.
Read this if you think there actually wasn't a plan:
http://www.diario.com.mx/servicios/hemeroteca/nota.asp?notaid=18638
Los gobiernos de Echeverría y López Portillo intentaron relanzar la agricultura nacional. Le inyectaron enormes recursos e hicieron repuntar un poco la producción y el crecimiento. Sin embargo, con un canal viciado de raíz: todo lo que los regímenes corporativos priístas hicieran por el campo iría fatalmente marcado por la demagogia, el acarreo, y el privilegio de la producción de capital político sobre los alimentos y materias primas.
“En el campo mexicano sobran muchos millones de campesinos, pues su contribución al producto interno bruto es muy desproporcionada con su participación en el total poblacional. Por lo tanto, de 25 millones hay que reducir la población a unos 5 millones”.Con eso todo estaba dicho.
Hay que reducir la poblacion (de campesinos) a unos 5 millions ----Salinas de Gortari's administration explicitly states that they intend to reduce this population by 5 million people. The Mexican government never intended to help the Mexican people ---it intended to get rid of them.
Salinas continúa reduciendo los apoyos al campo a la vez que controla los precios de garantía y reduce el número de productos que cuentan con ellos. Pero su estrategia hacia el campo se centra en dos políticas: privatización de la propiedad agraria y negociación de un tratado de libre comercio con los Estados Unidos.
His strategy for the Mexican farms involved a trade treaty with the US ---but this treaty isn't to help 5 million or 26 million campesinos ---it's to help rid the country of them. Why didn't Salinas or any of the others instead make an effort to bring the farms up to the level of US farms? Loans to buy tractors and other farm equipment? They purposely destroyed the farms ---they diverted water needed for irrigation to the maquilas. Why?
Also it's good to keep in mind that all 5 former Mexican presidents receive $5 million dollars (dollars, not pesos) every year ---that's 10 times what former American presidents receive and that's in a country where 50 million people don't make even $5 a day. There's more than incompetence going on there, they very deliberately raid their own country. They know they need the safety valve of the US to keep this corrupt system going.