Mexico

Here is a nice little article that I found from our good friends at Pew Research Center which debunks some common myths about Mexican Immigration. Quite a bit of it was news to me, though it fits in with the way I’ve been thinking lately. For example, according to the article, only about 30% of Mexican adults would move to the US if they had the chance, which is a vastly smaller number than most Americans would estimate. I think our perceptions are skewed by our border’s close proximity to some of the poorest regions of Mexico, and we tend to forget that the fabulous and luxurious tourist destinations of Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada are even part of the same world much less the same country. Americans have a conception of Mexico as sort of vaguely second-or-third-world, when in fact many parts of the country are very well developed. We also tend to forget that there are parts of America which are not super-fabulous modernity embodied.

Mexico and Immigration to US