ARTICLE: L America migrant money tops aid, By Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, 19 March 2007

As you may remember from BFA (and assuming I do so correctly myself), this is basically one of the points I made about how Hispanic immigrants coming to America--legal or not--are generating far greater money flows back to their homelands (while spending over 90 percent of what they make here in our economy) than all the combined OECD aid.

This while simultaneously starting new businesses at a relatively higher frequency than natives and backfilling all sorts of 3D (dirty, dangerous, difficult) jobs in our economy.

Social stress? Definitely. A certain welfare burden for the state (education, med)? Certainly.

But considering all the poverty alleviation we're buying with this scheme, we have to either extend citizenship or our borders, because nothing else will satisfy.

Thanks to Bgrant for sending this.