Friday, April 13, 2012

Surprising:Net illegal immigration from Mexico: zero

Barone

quote:

Mexico’s growth rate is tied not to that of the United States but to that of Texas, which has been a growth leader because of its intelligent public policies which have prevented public employee unions from plundering the private sector economy. [emphasis added] 

Comment:

Barone says that Mexico is becoming a middle class country, hence the slowing down of immigration from there.  If he's right, the immigration issue doesn't work for Republicans and may actually be counter productive.   What would work better is to focus on the size of government, in particular, reining in the large public employee unions.

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