Mexican Immigration > Roosevelt Home > Yale > Foreign Policy > Mexican Immigration
This project explores a central and crucial problem: people come to the United States from Mexico in large numbers because of drastic economic inequality between the two countries. Throughout the course of the project, we hope to examine the nature of the economic situation in Mexico that causes so many to flee and propose measures to alleviate the hardship in order to lessen the economic incentive that pushes immigrants across the border. This is a problem because, as the recent debate in Congress attests, the United States cannot sustain the current influx of immigrants across its southern border. As a result, both undocumented immigrants working below the minimum wage and low skilled American workers whose wages are driven down suffer. If something can be done to improve the Mexican economy, the lives of Americans as well as Mexicans will improve, as fewer people will look northward for economic opportunity, lessening the strain on the immigration system. Group members:
Matthew Ellison
Amira Valliani
William C Gangware
Justin Petrillo
Grant C Smith
Derek S Tam
Sanjeev Tewani
Mansur Tokmouline
Efan Wu
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