Immigration Law
* I blinked as I read the Mexican Congress’ reaction to the new U.S. immigration law (April 3). The Mexican Congress fears that the new law “will flood Mexico with newly unemployed compatriots.”
Mexico should examine the reasons these people left in the first place. The government should focus on its economy and the lack of opportunity for many of its citizens, rather than on internal U.S. immigration reform. Mexican nationals came here in search of a decent standard of living (jobs, education, health care). Through disastrous economic policies and rampant corruption, Mexico has left many of her citizens with two equally abject options: live in poverty or risk illegal emigration. It is no wonder that millions have chosen the latter. We mustn’t blame these people, for they are truly desperate.
Could it be that the Mexican Congress regards the loss “of the more than $4 billion that Mexican immigrants send home from the U.S. each year” as the real threat?
KENNETH LEIGHTON
Orange
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