What types of changes in immigration policy does msn support?
We think you have to start with the fundamental economic policies that cause immigration in the first place. We think nafta has to be renegotiated. nafta in and of itself is probably responsible for half the undocumented workers that are coming into the United States every year right now. Campesinos (farm workers) can’t compete with US foreign grain production. We think Mexico’s massive foreign debt needs to be dealt with. When the debt crisis happened in 1982 and 1994, the banks that made the bad loans and the private companies and financial institutions didn’t pay the price. Instead the loans were socialized and so the Mexican people had to pay off the price and they will continue paying off these loans for the foreseeable future. It may be five, six, seven decades. And by socializing these bad loans, basically Mexico has been put on a debt treadmill. Rather than having an economy that produces for internal consumption where they can develop a dynamic economy, they have to produce fo
