Well, Well, Well

According to this article, the real root cause of the ILLEGAL immigration problem is that the US isn’t giving Mexico enough aid.

Now this is according to Reuters, a media outlet that loves to blame the US for - well - everything, so that explains quite a lot. Still the article quotes Mexico’s president Fox, a couple of Mexican academics and another college type from the American University in Washington. They all conclude that until the income gap closes, Mexicans will come here. And of course the US should help fix the income gap by sending gobs of cash south.

So where is the Mexican government? Why don’t they have a role here? Oh wait, they do have a role! They want to set US immigration policy!

Seriously, I think the article unwittingly does show the true root cause. Not the income gap, but rather the complete and utter abdication of responsibility for their own people by the Mexican government.

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