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National Review:

There are many strange elements in the current debate over illegal immigration, but none stranger than the general failure to discuss the role of Mexico.

Are millions of Mexican citizens still trying to cross the U.S. border illegally because there is dismal economic growth and a shortage of jobs in Mexico?

Not any more. In terms of the economy, Mexico has rarely done better, and the United States rarely worse.

The Mexican unemployment rate is currently below 5 percent. North of the border, it remains stuck at over 7 percent for the 53rd consecutive month of the Obama presidency. The American gross domestic product has been growing at a rate of less than 2 percent annually. In contrast, a booming Mexico almost doubled that in 2012, with its GDP growing at a robust clip of nearly 4 percent.

 

Is elemental hunger forcing millions of Mexicans to flee north, as it may have in the past?

[NCTexan]

Again another good VDH.

 

Many bleeding heart Libs keep pretending that Mexico only exists in this ridiculous old paradigm.

Last week on Rush a goofus woman was talking about how cold hearted we are keeping all of those people from seeking a better life.

 

She said "she knew of" a woman who left her career as a university law professor in Mexico City to seek a "better life" here in the US by cleaning American's houses... She had to sneak across the border illegally to do this.

 

Sure, I agree that many are seeking opportunity but this is ridiculous.