Mexico neglecting its people

Mexican Ambassador Carlos de Icaza certainly brought a warm smile with him on his recent visit to Utah. But much of his accompanying message was the same old globalization slogans about promoting trade and business ties and facilitating the flow of cheap labor for multinational corporations "in a humane, dignified and legal way."

The mass migration of Mexicans to the United States is not merely some commuters moving between jobs in the global economy. Millions of Mexicans have moved to the United States to start new lives. Why can't Mexico provide opportunities for its citizens to improve their lives there? With the 10th-ranked economy in the world, why can't they educate their own children? What is Mexico doing to alleviate the crushing poverty and classism that diminishes the potential of their own people? Mexican leaders ought to be ashamed that millions of their own countrymen have to leave their own nation to have a better life. Instead of working to facilitate emigration, Mexico's leaders should work to take advantage of their greatest resource — their own people.

Keith Homer

Midvale