Immigration to Mexico

Over the last two years, more Americans have gone to work in Mexico than Mexicans have come to work in the US. That doesn't even include Mexicans who went back home with their jobs in the US evaporated in the recession; add them in, and there has been a major movement south over the border. Right now Mexico's economy is growing faster than ours, and the workers of the world are responding. There are more than a million foreigners working in Mexico now. Many of them have come from Europe; others from Korea, the Caribbean and South America.

Nobody knows how long Mexico's economy will keep this up, and whether it all might be undone by crime and corruption. But with birth rates falling across Latin America and globalization leveling the world playing field, mass flight across the Rio Grande seems a thing of the past.

Too bad they haven't figured this out in the US Congress, where fears of another flood of Hispanic immigrants have led Republicans to block another attempt at a compromise immigration bill.