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the G-man said:

I think its time to drop the fiction that Mexico is doing anything other than dumping its population on the U.S.



Yep. That may well be so. However, besides the economic issues I discussed above, the flow of desperate people out of Mexico can also releive the pressure cooker that might otherwise erupt if millions of hopeless, jobless people had no recourse.

I don't think it's against U.S. interests to ensure that social instability doesn't rock their southern neighbor.

I think when the strain on U.S. society and resources outweighs the political risk in a populist uprising, will the U.S. finally crack down. That and the economic benefit not being equal or greater to the financial burden illegal immigrants place on U.S. social services.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.