Replying to a message of Bob Ackley to DAVE DRUM:

 DD>> Then do something to help improve the conditions of Mexico
 DD>> so people would do what they would rather do and that's
 DD>> stay home with their families. Do you really think they
 DD>> want to struggle trying to cross the border?

 BA> Since the problem has been going on for well over half a
 BA> century, yes.

Some people go to where they can get the most for the least effort.

I remember back in about 1960 my parents griping about second and
third generations living off the fairly generous California welfare system.
People were literally moving there in order to get those welfare checks,
which usually were bigger than the ones they were getting where they 
were.  CA tried to establish residency requirements before one could receive
welfare benefits, but the federal courts shot that idea down - IMO a bad
decision.  Of course that was in a time before welfare became an 'entitlement'
that people had a *right* to.

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