MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 40

MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 41

can investment in Mexico�"postpones an evolution in Mexican

society that could finally force a rapacious aristocracy to the table

for needed concessions.

Reform and transparency in Mexico are stalled�"understand-

ably, since every day’s delay means more flight by the oppressed, not

progress for the beleaguered who remain behind. One can imagine

the state of politics in America should the nation’s unemployed,

uninsured and insecure decide to walk across the border to Canada

by the millions each year: our reactionaries would have little to

fear from the less affluent who stay, and our reformers would have

little constituency. (Liberal Canadians, who now preen about their

generally open immigration policies, would quickly fortify their

border if thousands of starving and illiterate Americans began to

pour into Toronto or Montreal every month to receive Canadian

entitlements.)

To restructure the economy of Mexico, democratize the

political system and legalize the courts would be to empower the

Indians of the rural and mountainous hinterland, and thereby keep

millions of them home as a vocal force for further change, rather

than push millions and their problems northward. �śSafety valve” is

an inadequate term to indicate how useful a mass outflow of the

poorest is for the Mexican status quo. This, after all, is a society

sitting on a demographic time bomb of almost 100 million with a

population growth rate of 2 percent per annum�"and no feasible

way of providing jobs, health care, social justice or personal safety

to a nation half of which will soon be under the age of twenty-five.

Without the promised land to the north, there might well loom

either political revolution or African-style famine and plague.

The Mexican government’s rationale�"can we not detect its

pernicious legacy also here in California?�"is that the Yanquis and

gringos once invaded the country, stole the land and rigged the

border to harm permanently the Mexican people, who, through no

fault of their own, are now crowded into too little space and find

themselves oppressed by el Norte and the evil Anglos. The legacy







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