Net Migration Falls to Zero- and Perhaps Less.


This article talks about the simple fact that migration from Mexico to the United States has decreased rapidly over the past five years, and simply states that the decline is a result of  "many factors, including the weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border enforcement, a rise in deportations, the growing dangers associated with illegal border crossings, the long-term decline in Mexico’s birth rates and broader economic conditions in Mexico".  These factors are no doubt all to blame, but the major factors that have changed in the past five years (SEE GRAPH), the year of huge decline, are the economy and policy on immigration.

The economy has been effecting migration for decades, as the need for workers fluctuates according to need. However, since 2010 when the US economy has been looking up, the number of migrants has continued to decline even though the demand for labor has increased. This is no doubt because of policy on immigration. It makes sense that no more than before the risk is greatest to enter the US illegally, and often even legally, as many migrants come to the US and stay past their visas allow, and face deportation by ICE, who has a goal number of migrants to deport per year. 

The thing I do not understand is that even if you are a hater of people, especially migrants, is how you can just ignore the needs of our economy and the needs it has for labor in order to continue to grow and boom. (I am not a people hater, so I do not agree with that stance, but want to make the point that people who are so harsh about immigration are just too stubborn and need to be kicked out of office.) The ultimate result of this huge decline in migrant, on the side of labor, is that the economy is going to suffer without this cheap labor that we rely so heavily on and that we have relied on for decades. 

In conclusion, immigration policy needs to change, if no other reason that for the economy. But also because people are people, and we, as a nation, need to get over the fear that our white-ness will slowly become obsolete.

Misguided frustration.

Beyonce and JayZ are more controversial than Dennis Rodman?

What:
This article talks about the recent trip by Beyonce and Jay-Z to Cuba and the pending investigation as a result. This investigation was instigated by three republicans politicans in Flordia, including Marco Rubio. The other representatives were quoted saying, "“Cuba’s tourism industry is wholly state-controlled,” Ms. Ros-Lehtinen and Mr. Diaz-Balart wrote in a letter to the Treasury Department on Friday, “therefore, U.S. dollars spent on Cuban tourism directly fund the machinery of oppression that brutally represses the Cuban people.” 

The couple traveled to Cuba on a 'people to people' license, which is meant to grant Americans entrance into Cuba solely for the purpose of  “educational exchange activities that will result in meaningful interaction” between Americans and Cubans.

The whole investigation is whether or not educational exchange actually took place.

This comes barely a month after Dennis Rodman, of all people, visited Kim Jong-un and was singing his praises, which seems to only be at the dismay of people who understand human rights and the violations of such in North Korea.

This issue with Cuba and Beyonce and her husband is not one of borders, as portrayed, but rather is another publicity stunt of politicians. Yes, the issues between Cuba and the US are serious and need attention, but the strong remarks made by the three politicians do nothing to curb the fact that Beyonce and Jay-Z spent their time watching little girls dance in bumblebee suits.

Mr. Iglesias, The director of a dance company that Beyonce visited while in Cuba said it best. “If to come here and share ideas and emotions isn’t a legitimate exchange between peoples, I don’t what is".