http://triplecrisis.com/going-beyond-immigration-policy/ Global Perspectives on Finance, Development, and Environment Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://triplecrisis.com/going-beyond-immigration-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Peter Costantini Mon, 10 May 2010 18:57:26 +0000 http://triplecrisis.com/?p=595#comment-729 I've been covering migration for Inter Press Service for the past four years. This post really nails the push-pull effects of U.S. economic policy on Latin America: it creates immigrants by making economic survival hard south of the border and it hungrily absorbs immigrants here to meet labor-force needs. Then ignorant or opportunistic people (many of them in Congress) dump on Mexican and Central American workers for being rational economic actors, exactly as Adam Smith or David Ricardo might have expected them to be. Thanks for an insightful post. I’ve been covering migration for Inter Press Service for the past four years. This post really nails the push-pull effects of U.S. economic policy on Latin America: it creates immigrants by making economic survival hard south of the border and it hungrily absorbs immigrants here to meet labor-force needs. Then ignorant or opportunistic people (many of them in Congress) dump on Mexican and Central American workers for being rational economic actors, exactly as Adam Smith or David Ricardo might have expected them to be. Thanks for an insightful post.

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