Thread: A turning tide?

A turning tide?
Jun 26th 2008 | NOGALES
From The Economist print edition

Many of the past decade’s migrants to Europe and America are beginning to go home again


New York Times/Redux/Eyevine

A SHARP-EYED coyote, dollars sprouting from his ears, glowers at the roadside. Beside him a muscle-bound American border agent, clad in green and with pistol drawn, looms over a cowering migrant. Nearby a man-sized dollar sign flits away on silver wings. That graffito on a concrete border wall in Nogales, on the Mexican side of the frontier with the United States, tells a simple story: the business of migration in this part of the world is both lucrative and increasingly dangerous.

Residents of Nogales advise visitors to avoid “Buenos Airesâ€

Beyond America
That trend is part of a bigger picture. Many places, including Australia, the Persian Gulf, parts of Asia and much of Africa will no doubt see migration continue apace for some time yet. Where economic growth remains strong, as in most emerging markets, migrant workers will be drawn in, just as they will keep on surging out of dirt-poor places with more people than jobs. Even in South Africa, where anti-migrant riots have sent tens of thousands of foreigners fleeing into camps (or back home to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and elsewhere) and have led to dozens of deaths, migration is likely to stay high.



Just wait until Calderon begins shipping his illegals world wide....which he will......and goes into those countries demanding full rights and benefits of citizenship, declaring their rights to occupy those territories as the "only true indigenous peoples" and starts telling them how to run their countries, interfering in their law enforcement and election processes, etc.

. Over 220,000 migrants lost construction jobs last year. And those in work are earning less: wages of Latino construction workers tumbled in 2007.

I call it Americans losing jobs to illegals-they call it xenophobia.