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Permalink Reply by Unseen on May 18, 2012 at 5:10pm

By that reasoning and considering America's relatively high unemployment that has lead to an overabundance of available workers, one would think that immigration would have ground to a halt. Fewer jobs = less incentive to move. That hasn't happened so there is obviously more to this one situation between America and it's southern border.

Actually, illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has ground to "net zero," as this article explains.

I agree with just about everything else you wrote in terms of explaining why the U.S.-Mexico immigration issue has no quick-and-easy solution, as well as why it may even take annexing Mexico to straighten out some of the problems (cartels, corrupt officialdom).

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Permalink Reply by oneinfinity on May 17, 2012 at 10:04am

Focus a great deal of resources towards the goal of increasing the standard of living in the less prosperous country.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on May 17, 2012 at 10:40am

In the meantime?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Klein on May 17, 2012 at 11:36am

Coming from Luxembourg:

This is my country and it's called Schengen Agreement

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Permalink Reply by Mabel on May 17, 2012 at 12:14pm

If that country was also inundated with corruption throughout the government and legal system, I would annex the country if it were possible to do this without making the situation worse.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on May 17, 2012 at 12:36pm

I see this as a distinct possibility. A war of that sort might be, in the long run, of more benefit to the richer country than a war far away.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on May 17, 2012 at 12:40pm

Of course, if the richer country is of a different racial makeup, some people will try to make it all about race.

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Permalink Reply by Linda on May 17, 2012 at 1:34pm

It would be a very bumpy road.

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Permalink Reply by Amy L. Cook on May 17, 2012 at 2:31pm

I think we should create a program to help "illegal immigrants" achieve full citizenship in whichever country they wish to live - presumably the one they were trying to live and work in "illegally". We are all humans and we all live here, on this planet. I think that each person should have the right to live wherever it is on this planet they wish to live. We need to stop treating each other as intruders in our own world.

Peace

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on May 17, 2012 at 4:19pm

Could you explain how that might work without resulting in any number of impossible situations? For example, with high unemployment in the U.S., how would a flood of uneducated and hungry mouths to feed be handled? Why would U.S. citizens accept that?

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on May 17, 2012 at 7:30pm

At least some of the "high unemployment in the U.S." is directly related to the fact that there are some jobs that Americans have decided they are too "good" to do, and would rather draw unemployment compensation than do them.

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Permalink Reply by Sagacious Hawk on May 18, 2012 at 11:21am

Which in my opinion, is a failure of our culture.

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