From the blog of Shannon O'Neil of the Council on Foreign Relations
Latin America's Moment: " Mexican migrants--given the combination of absolute number caps on legal visas combined with the large number of Mexican family members here, parents, kids, and siblings--have to make the choice of growing up (for years potentially) apart, waiting for a legal family visas, or coming illegally. So do you want to wait and do the paper work and hope you get to see your 4 year old when he/she is 8-9 years old? Or do you bring them illegally? That is an inhumane law, and should be changed." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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