At 06:16 AM 5/10/2006, Greg Stigers wrote:
>"Shawn Gordon" wrote:
>>(you'd think that would bother the Mexican government more than the 
>>fact that we want to stop them coming illegally).  They should be 
>>in Mexico city demonstrating in the millions, not here.
>
>What I've heard, for all that's worth, is that illegal aliens tend 
>to send money home. This is somehow better for the Mexican economy 
>than free trade, presumably because it goes to buy necessities and 
>is therefore not meaningfully inflationary. If that's true, I can 
>see how this part of the problem remains unsolved.
>
>The chattering class has suggested making it easier to get temporary 
>worker's visas to sustain the influx of cheap manual labor, so long 
>as there was appropriate oversight and tracking, and built-in bus 
>fair home for those for whom it is time to go home. It would be an 
>interesting idea, if it did not depend on a government bureaucracy 
>to do something accurately and inexpensively.

money sent back from the US is their second highest source of revenue 
after oil.


>Things certainly have changed since my mother immigrated in the early fifties.
>
>Greg Stigers
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