http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/03/17/fostering-the-tortilla-revolution/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/03/17/fostering-the-tortilla-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-38786 Patrick Mulligan Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:28:07 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/03/17/fostering-the-tortilla-revolution/#comment-38786 So what is the difference? Either way we are still dependent on another nation (and still an unfriendly one at that) for our key source of energy. And propping up the Mexican economy is not only not our obligation, but also will not help with immigration. If it did, then the 3 million illegal immigrants we gave amnesty to in 1986 would have returned to Mexico after the lopsided NAFTA passed. Mexico has a population of about 110 million. I'm more than slightly skeptical that deregulating their oil industry will provide them all with gainful employment and prosperity more alluring than that of the American welfare system. So what is the difference? Either way we are still dependent on another nation (and still an unfriendly one at that) for our key source of energy. And propping up the Mexican economy is not only not our obligation, but also will not help with immigration. If it did, then the 3 million illegal immigrants we gave amnesty to in 1986 would have returned to Mexico after the lopsided NAFTA passed. Mexico has a population of about 110 million. I’m more than slightly skeptical that deregulating their oil industry will provide them all with gainful employment and prosperity more alluring than that of the American welfare system.

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