Could an influx of foreign aid to Mexico solve Americas immigration problem?
James Ridgeway, writing for Mother Jones magazine, says: For all the talk about immigration reform on the Hill, there has been notably little discussion about what is driving Mexican immigrants to pour over the border into the U.S., let alone any debate about measures that might go to the root of the problem. According to Laura Carlsen, the director of the International Relations Center’s Americas Program, the reason behind the “massive out-migration” is fairly clear. Put simply, she wrote not long ago, “Mexico is not producing enough decent jobs for its peopleand the United States is hiring.” It would seem, then, that one potential answer to the United States’ so-called immigration problem would be an effective development policy toward Mexico (whose citizens make up 56 percent of America’s undocumented population, according to the Pew Hispanic Center), including both private investment and foreign aid. As it stands, Mexico receives the bulk of its aid not from the U.S. government or
