Right, we are not responsible for their import-export deficits. Apologists who say they are fleeing gang violence---may only be partly right, since their economic deterioration has a very large cause in Asian imports. And the gang problem has already been offered assistance from the US via the US DOJ National Gang Center. Illegal alien apologists also like to bring up NAFTA---whereas the reality is that Mexico is the bigger proponent of free trade agreements. And once again, we are just picking up the pieces that they ought to be doing instead.