That's not really the point I was making. The point I was making was the Mexicans go to the US for a reason.
The US would be better off looking at those reasons and dealing with them. The Marshall Plan for Europe and similar for Japan and South Korea had a massively POSITIVE impact for the US.
Having a richer southern neighbor, like the northern neighbor, would enrich the US far more than playing these silly games of "we get a bad deal". Mexico is kind of poor, and you're talking about getting a bad deal. Come off it.
Fair enough, though I thought nation building was off the table in this new era of enlightenment.
It's not hard to understand that the poor of Mexico, Central and South America are seeking a better way of life for themselves and their families...so are thieves, drug dealers, gang members, corrupt politicians and millions of hardworking, law abiding American citizens.
The countries to our south are corrupt. Why? Arbitrary justice and arbitrary enforcement/application of law are part of it. Corruption and poverty flourish when the rule of law is suspended - yet that's exactly what some of our own citizens want to see in this nation.
The Mexican government likes it when their citizens flee to the US - it relieves them of the responsibility of providing social services, and the money sent back to Mexico is a significant part of their economy - feathering the nest of corruption, so to speak.
Some US politicians like to make hay out of chaos, and some US businesses like the cheap labor. That pretty well covers the issue - unless you want to go back further and examine the deeds of the southern Europeans, forefathers of todays Hispanic populations in the Americas, as they raped, pillaged, enslaved and plundered their way across the New World in a never ending thirst for riches.
