Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.

NAFTA force the Mexican farmer to chase the work.

In the future, after current immigrants are given a pathway towards citizenship, the demand of securing our borders will remain.  House Majority leader,Eric Cantor was right in saying that we need to address this problem, he was only wrong in declaring it to be a precursor to an immigration bill.  Pass the bill and address the problem.

If I were Cantor, I would force demands upon this bill that set timelines around what we do next.  A holistic approach to immigration demands a realistic approach to the cause and effect model. 

Before NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) the Mexican farmer could make a reasonable living in Mexico.  After NAFTA, he was swallowed up by the strength of the American farm corporations.  When the supply and demand model shifted the supply source to America's soil, it shifted the job as well.  Immigration exploded after NAFTA as did crime in Mexico.  A weakened Mexico has provided few real alternatives for industry, and thus, weak resistance to the emerging drug lord economy.

Immigration grew because Mexicans had to choose to either live really poorly in Mexico on what you can make, or you chase the jobs in America and send a little cash back if you can.  Economist say that this lost money that is generated in America but sent back to Mexico is an issue worth addressing as well.  Truly desperate youth in Mexico shorten their life expectancy by making money within the drug trade which is another significant American trade arrangement with a one sided benefit (save for the guns that Texas sells to drug lords).   Some of the drug money makes its way back into the Mexican economy, but at the cost of fear and terror on the Mexican streets.

In the absence of a stronger industry, the drug cartels grow stronger.  In time, our main concern from the southern regions of our continent will not be the immigrants but the industry of evil that will increase its ability to control Mexico on America's dime.  They may already be expanding tunnel systems to insure future immigration and drug  routes.  America owes it to America to address the decline of Mexico with legislation and strategy before it requires soldiers and guns.....and bombs.

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