Passionate Pam

April, 2007

Jimmy Breslin puts a human lace on the hypocrisy that is U.S. immigra­tion policy (The Immigration Mess, Janu­ary). For more than a decade we have worked to integrate the North Ameri­can market, with great success. At the same time, we have sought to prevent the integration of labor. To finesse this contradiction we dramatically increase our presence on the U.S.-Mexico border. Although this has had no detectable effect on the rate of undoc­umented in-migration, it has reduced the rate of out-mig...