Matthew Mehan has made the additional point that our immigration policy may not be doing any favors to Mexicans who stay in Mexico: “Imagine what our small towns and cities would be like if the gutsiest, hardest-working, most risk-taking, most entrepreneurially minded neighbors always went to Canada but left their families behind in the states. Sure those Mexican villages see the money from their former neighbors, but they don’t benefit from their ingenuity, leadership, and example (except that of bailing out of the village).”