Whats Mexico willing to do to make immigration reform and border security work?
Mexico will keep working to create job opportunities for our people here in Mexico. That’s why we’re promoting the maquiladora factories along the U.S. border, because they provide a cushion for people who are thinking of crossing the border to the U.S. — they can just stay there to work instead of crossing. Right now, we have a deficit of 100,000 workers in the border maquiladora industries that we need to fill. None of us like to see Mexicans go to the U.S. — they don’t go because they want to, they do it out of a desire to improve their lives. Our Mexicans are much happier eating tortillas here in Mexico than eating hot dogs there. Many in America understand this well — it’s a country of immigrants. Like the Irish, the Polish, and the English who arrived in the U.S. and the pioneers who settled out West, the Mexican migrants are creative people with an immense desire to improve their lives. At the beginning of your presidency, U.S.-Mexican relations were quite good, but they sour
