August, 2006

Counterintuitive: Take Two

by Douglas S. Massey

August 31st, 2006

I’m afraid much of the debate will be counterintuitive, if not Orwellian, to most Mexicans. The U.S. is not in that bad shape (forget the disaster in New Orleans, the tainted elections in Florida and Ohio, the record deficit, skyrocketing inequality, and the record number of Americans in poverty); that a militarized border is [...]

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Counterintuitive, at Least

I am afraid much of the debate will appear counterintuitive, if not Orwellian, to most Americans of the Southwest: Mexico is not in all that bad shape (forget the near insurrection in Oaxaca, or the drug badlands along the border; or that one in ten Mexicans have abandoned their country); border enforcement leads to more, [...]

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Tie Up NAFTA’s Loose Ends

by Douglas S. Massey

August 28th, 2006

So the debate is not emotional? See how quickly it degenerates into ad hominem attacks. The facts, however, are these:
The United States has received significant Mexican immigration since 1907, when U.S. employers began recruitment in Mexico following the termination of labor migration from Japan.
The U.S. government sponsored its own labor recruitment programs in [...]

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How Do We Control Illegal Immigration?

by Stephen J. Trejo

August 27th, 2006

Doug Massey is right. The debate about Mexican immigration easily turns emotional, and it often aggravates Americans’ feelings of insecurity that are not directly related to immigration. September 11 and subsequent events have intensified these emotions, but sizeable immigration flows to the United States have always provoked similar responses, both in modern times [...]

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