Solving Illegal Immigration: Labor Unions in Latin America!

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Hello all,

Not to forget the previous post discussed "push and pull" factors concerning illegal immigration.

Pull factor: United States' relatively high standard of living (You could thank the American Labor Union for their past efforts).

Push factors: Economic instability in Latin American nations, relatively high crime rates in Latin American nations, and poverty rate in Latin America (At fault would be the governments of Latin America and the absence of Labor Unions).

First off, Latin America is a massive and diverse place. The problems are hardly uniform. Some places have high crime, some have lower crime rates than the U.S. The social problems are diverse and different, whether or not they are an exporter of drugs is different. Whether or not they immigrant to the United States illegally is different. So to group them all as though they are a single country is fairly inaccurate and ignorant. There is this odd type of Euro-centrism that argues that foreign countries would be a little better off if they were just a bit more like us.

Second and more importantly, I don't know what makes you think there are no labor unions in Latin America. There are and have been lots. Another example of thinking that you are dealing The idea that labor unions are somehow responsible for the first world standard of living is soo over-simplistic as to be laughable. Approximately 30% of Mexico's labor force is unionized. http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/196-m...t-and-laws That's more than the U.S. So your point fails pretty bad.

Lastly I don't really see the problem with illegal immigration. We have a labor demand in this country and illegal immigration fills it.