How To Help Mexico—Close The Border!

Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall

For years I have contended that today’s mass emigration from Mexico to the U.S. is harmful to Mexico. It encourages the Mexican government to export the people rather than solve the problems here in Mexico. It exacerbates family disintegration and social problems. It distorts local economies . (See my previous article Does Emigration Really Help Mexico?)

For Mexico, emigration is like an addictive drug that encourages Mexicans to escape to the U.S. rather than solve the problems here.

There are actually people here in Mexico who agree with me on this point.

Certainly, the politicians of all parties continue to bash Americans for wanting to control our border. That’s not surprising.

But some Mexicans have recently made the same argument I have been making. It’s not that they read my articles, it’s just that they looked through the rhetoric and followed the same logic.