<![CDATA[Antonio Garza &amp; James Jones - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/27473.xmlAuthor <![CDATA[Mexico and the U.S.: Who Needs Who?]]> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Immigration reform discussions are often based on the premise that immigrants desperately want to come to the U.S. and will do whatever it takes to migrate. But this is, increasingly, an incomplete and even dated picture.

When it comes to Mexico, a place we know well as U.S. Ambassadors to Mexico for 11 of the last 20 years—one of us in a Republican administration and the other in a Democrat one—the incentives for its population to move north are fading. Mexico is on the rise, and only sensible immigration reform will allow the U.S. to continue to attract and retain the workers our economy needs to grow, many of which, if we’re smart about it, will come from our...]]>