(Prof. Montejano)
‘Only by addressing the realities of North American economic integration can we solve the problem’
Douglas S. Massey
This article is a response to Joseph H. Carens’s Case for Amnesty, and part of a New Democracy Forum on immigration.
The roots of the Mexican problem go back to 1965, when the U.S. Congress ended a 22-year-old temporary worker agreement with Mexico and enacted a new cap on immigration from the Western Hemisphere. This measure was followed in 1976 by updated country-specific limits. In a few short years, Mexico went from enjoying access to 450,000 annual guest worker visas and an unlimited number of residence visas to having no guest worker visas at all and just 20,000 visas for permanent residence.
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