Just as in American politics and media, there are people in Mexico who consider the history of migration between this country and its neighbor to the north as a tale just shy of "modern slavery" (a phrase actually coined by one of my editors as a possible title for a piece on Mexican migrants in New York). I disagreed with the title back then and I still do. In my opinion, despite its many flaws and tragic stories, migration between Mexico and the United States is virtuous and symbiotic.

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Migrants don’t migrate for the fun of it. There is no pleasure in migration. Migrants -- or at least Mexican migrants -- leave their countries of origin because they have no real choice. Naturally, this is primarily that country’s fault.

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