The argument that, if Vicente Fox had taken better care of his people, or that a leftist government in Mexico could stop Mexican immigration to the United States, is based on an illusion. Just look at Cuba, still a largely socialist country. While the initial Cuban emigres who came to the States shortly after the Cuban Revolution were largely whiter and more affluent, more recent immigrants from Cuba are poorer -- they are basically economic migrants, the same as Mexicans and others who come to the US. And Cuba depends on its emigrants' remittances as much as Mexico does (see <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060417/036009.html>).
Face it -- socialism in one country can make relations within it more egalitarian (Cuba isn't totally classless, but it's more egalitarian than all other Latin and Caribbean nations and most other nations in the world), but it CANNOT make the country richer than it is. International economic inequality, a product of centuries of history of capitalism, remains, with or without socialism in Mexico.
It is only fair that labor follows where capital has repatriated its profits.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>