Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
So, this will be an enduring issue, which will not go away, as long
as a large economic inequality between the USA and Mexico (and other
countries in the global South) remains.
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This turned up on watchingamerica.com the other day:
La Jornada, Mexico
Skyrocketing Migration to U.S. is a Failure for Mexico
“This incredibly weak economic policy, which makes Mexico completely
dependent on the United States, can and should be reversed - as has
happened in South Korea, India and China.”
By Ana María Aragonés
Translated By Barbara Howe
November 28, 2006
More: http://www.watchingamerica.com/lajornada000058.shtml
...and a while back, this from the Knight Ridder via the San Jose
Mercury-News, about the ruination of Mexican communities due to
migration North.
Emigration From Mexico Devastating Mexican Communities - Migration to
U.S. emptying much of Mexican countryside - KR via San Jose Mercury-News
"No corner of Mexico has been left untouched by emigration. In 31
percent of Mexico's municipalities, population is shrinking steadily
because of migration to the United States,"
Sun, Mar. 26, 2006
Migration to U.S. emptying much of Mexican countryside
LABOR EXPORT DEVASTATING
By Jay Root
Knight Ridder
JOAQUÍN AMARO, Mexico — Decades ago, before massive waves of young men
fled north, Pedro Avila Salamanca helped his father harvest corn and
fatten pigs. He learned to write his name in a one-room schoolhouse.
Sometimes he rode to town on a donkey.
It's all a distant memory now. Everywhere abandoned houses are
crumbling. The towns are shrinking. And Avila, 89, who wears donated
clothes and lives on the meager checks his daughters send from the
United States, can't remember the last time he ate meat. “What would I
buy it with?'' he asked.
Avila is a part of the immigration debate that neither Mexican political
leaders nor cheap-labor advocates in the United States like to talk
about: Heavy migration has all but emptied much of the Mexican countryside.
More: http://leighm.net/blog/?p=140
