One of the harms of illegal immigration from Mexico to the US that has often been overlooked by Affirmative teams is “harm to Mexico.”  Is it good for a country to lose large chunks of its able-bodied working population ever year?  What if all those hard-working people stayed home and built Mexico into a strong prosperous nation?

Check out this article:
www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=245631366261614

My favorite part of this article is where the Governor of Mexico’s Central Bank endorses a US border fence, “warning that no nation can afford to lose its human capital indefinitely.”

In this year’s Blue Book, we have a page of harms that illegal immigration from Mexico to the US causes to Mexico (p. 235).  They might be cool surprises for Negatives who have heard all the usual harms about jobs, crime, etc., within the United States.  What if we reduced illegal immigration for the purpose of benefiting Mexico?

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