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Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Working Mexicans Cross Border, Study Says


“A report about the work lives of recent Mexican immigrants in seven cities across the United States suggests that they typically traded jobs in Mexico for the prospect of work here, despite serious bouts of unemployment, job instability and poor wages. . . . Unlike the stereotype of jobless Mexicans heading north, most of the immigrants had been employed in Mexico, the report found.” (New York Times, Wednesday)

It takes prodigious twisting of logic to find a threat in people seeking better lives.

FEE Timely Classic
“The Freedom to Move” by Oscar W. Cooley and Paul L. Poirot