Analyzes how Mexico-U.S. migration functioned historically and how U.S. militarization of the border and restrictive policies of immigrant disenfranchisement adopted after 1986 have led to negative, unintended consequences for the United States and Mexico as well as the migrants themselves. Contends that U.S. policy of promoting greater integration of North American markets for goods, capital, and information but attempting to deny the reality of labor integration is destined to fail, and proposes policies to bring labor migration aboveboard and accepted as part of the emerging transnational economy.
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