We’ve heard from the illegal immigrants. We are hearing from our noble senators. And ordinary Americans can always call into their local talk-radio show to voice their opinions about immigration.
But what do ordinary Mexicans think?
The chaps at TCSDaily wondered that too, so they got middle-class Mexican Marvin Duran Rodriguez to tell his side of the story. He goes right to the heart of it.
Down here, the usually unspoken truth is that the daily emigration northward is a source of deep national shame that the country we love does not provide conditions wherein much of the underclass can afford adequate educations, medical care or even sufficient nourishment for their families.
It’s easy for Mexicans to blame US abundance for their scarcity, and they do, but still “more than four out of ten Mexicans admit that they would rather live among the 'gringo capitalists.'”
Duran worries that a reform of immigration would precipitate a crisis in the Mexican economy, a real threat when you consider how important remittances from Mexicans in the US to their families back home are to the Mexican economy.
Our politicians know how crucial remittances from your country are, and this gives you the leverage needed to convince the government of Mexico that it must make the structural changes, both in terms of anti-corruption measures and market reforms, that we need in order to join America as a true North American partner.
We must hope that President Bush is privately pushing for just that.
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