"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.

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

Greg Stigers 

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