Mexico is a major exporting nation.  Unfortunately, one of its major exports is its own people.

  As a matter of national policy the notoriously corrupt government of Mexico is encouraging, even urging its poorest citizens to pack up and risk life and limb crossing the border to live illegally in America.

  The rationale behind this policy is quite simple.  A struggling, corrupt government run by an out of touch aristocracy fears a popular uprising of the lower classes.  In order to pacify the masses without reforming the government, it encourages its poorest and most uneducated citizens to seek a better life in America.

  When these Mexicans establish themselves in United States working as day laborers or dishwashers or roofers, they then wire a stipend back to relatives in Mexico.

  The Mexican government gets what it wants, and Mexico's poor get a marginally better life in America (provided they survive the cross-border trek).

   It's a clever strategy.  Export your problems to old Uncle Sam up north and let him handle them.

  Although clever, it is also morally wrong.  Morally wrong for the Mexican government to take advantage of the undefended border and morally wrong for American business and political interests to abet it.  Mexico needs to reform its political system and its economy. Its poor need real opportunities in Mexico.  But as long as the United States is willing to look the other way as the Mexican government treats its citizens like chattel, it has no reason to change.

  Americans are literally subsidizing Mexico's immoral policies by allowing millions of illegals into our country each year.  If we close the border, Mexico will finally see a need to make the hard choices necessary to drag its economy and political system into the 21st century.  The American way is not to subsidize another nation's failures.  Instead, we must tell the corrupt Mexico City bureaucrats and politicians that their time is up.