Do-It-Yourself Immigration Reform

An interesting look at the figures, the authors say legal immigration from Mexico is solving some of the problems.     - - Donna Poisl

By JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA and DOUGLAS S. MASSEY

IN the noisy American debate over immigration reform, something important seems to have escaped notice: time, and common-sense decisions by Mexican migrants, have brought us nearly everything immigration reform was supposed to achieve.

Migration between Mexico and the United States has returned to a healthy circular pattern: large numbers of Mexicans legally cross northward to work, then return south with confidence that they can repeat the journey the next time. The reason: Even as illegal Mexican migration flattened out in recent years, legal Mexican travel north rose.
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