Latin America and Immigration

Since Latin American governments benefit more than ever before from their citizens moving to the United States (from the export of their excess labor and the remittances the workers send back) their leaders are becoming very active in lobbying the U.S. to prevent restrictive immigration policy from passing. Foreign minister from 11 countries got together to discuss the matter and plan to send a delegation to the U.S. Mexico is sending its own congressional delegation as well. Look for more of that when Congress gets into it. See here for a good, brief description of current immigration proposals in the U.S. Congress. There will be serious fireworks when the debate begins, which I now hear will be in March.