Mexico leads in migrations
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2007/04/mexico_leads_in.html
A World Bank report released Sunday shows that Mexico sends more
migrants abroad than any other country on earth exceeding even the
flows from nations that are much bigger, much poorer or convulsed by
war and famine.
Two million Mexicans left their homeland between 2000 and 2005,
according to the study, most of them to seek employment in the United
States. China, whose population is more than 12 times larger than that
of Mexico, saw 1.95 million of its citizens leave the country. More
than 1.8 million Pakistanis left their homeland. Neighboring India
produced 1.4 million migrants.
Economic migrants dwarfed the flows of refugees. For example, just
over a half-million residents of Sudan fled that war-torn nation
between 2000 and 2005, according to data from the World Bank's report,
World Development Indicators 2007.
The northward flow of Mexicans to the United States is one of the
largest exoduses in modern history. The equivalent of 10% of Mexico's
population of 107 million people now resides north of the border,
according to estimates.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
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