Homer 1

Brenda Homer

Brandon Dominguez

English 2010

July 9, 2019

Mexico: Economy and Migration

For this project I will review the sources that I have chosen for my research paper. Part of

the problem that I encountered was the overwhelming amount of information available.

The question that I really wanted to know was why would any person choose to leave home and

family, risk life, freedom and failure to travel so far for an uncertain opportunity in the United

States.

I began my research looking at the current economy of Mexico. Where do people work

and what do they do to support themselves? It turns out that a more than half the population of

Mexico are under employed and underpaid for the labor that they perform. I was appalled at the

wage scale, and the acceptance of many to choose to live in such abject poverty.

As I began to see the trend of how little a person actually makes per hour in Mexico It

became clear that the immigration problem is not at the border it is within Mexico itself. The

corrupt disproportionate distribution of wealth where one percent of the population actually

controls over half the wealth of the country. The division between the haves and the have nots is

drastic as to be named the country “last in income equality among all OECD countries but also

that Mexico’s inequality is strictly greater than that for all OECD countries across all deciles in

the income distribution (Trading Economics)”.

I will attempt to understand the financial hardship of the Mexican population and ways

that individuals can make a difference.

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Works Cited

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Harrigan, Danyel. "Wealth Inequality: On the Causes of Poverty in Mexico." 27 July 2017.

www.borgenproject.org. 06 July 2019.

Jie Zong, Jeanne Batalova, and Micayla Burrows. "www.migrationpolicy.org." 2019. Frequently

Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. 05 July 2019.

Lee, Brianna. "Mexico's Economy: Rising Poverty, Inequality Undermine Peña Nieto's

Economic Agenda." 3 September 2015. www.ibtimes.com. Info-graphic. 4 July 2019.

Rölz, Isabella. " Mexico's Poverty Rate Increases." 2019 April. www.borganproject.org. 5 July

2019.

Trading Economics. "United States Average Hourly Wages." June 2019. tradingeconomics.com.

05 July 2019.

USAFacts. "Section 1325: the 90-year-old law that defines border crossing criminality." 24 April

2019. www.USAfacts.org. 05 July 2019.