More stable Mexican economy would aid U.S. border efforts
Tribune Editorial

Mexican president Felipe Calderón is supposed to be a little more conservative and a little bit more in tune with the current political climate in the United States than predecessor Vicente Fox.

But Calderón sounds quite a bit like Fox when he defends rampant migration, even by illegal means, as he did Thursday at a conference of governors from Mexico and the U.S. in Rocky Point. Capitol Media Services reported in the Tribune that Calderón called northward migration a “natural phenomenon (that is) socially and economically unavoidable.

“Mexican workers in the United States are a complement to workers, not a substitute,â€