It's not true that the US receives the most ignorant and least capable citizens of Mexico.  This group isn't capable of marshaling the resources, or doing the planning necessary to enter the US illegally.  And since the most educated, capable Mexicans are as white as any European, it's also the case that the US doesn't receive the most capable either.  The US receives that large group in the middle, the blue collar working-class Mexicans.  But it is true that if the US wasn't serving as a safety valve the corrupt Mexican system would explode in a revolution.  Vive la Revolucion!

This data isn't new; the idea that skilled professionals have been fleeing Europe is one of the pillars of the argument that Europe won't be able to stem its steep decline and will go quietly into the Muslim night. Books like Steyn's America Alone make a similar point. There've been articles on this phenomena for awhile; it used to be they'd emigrate to other countries in the Anglosphere, but now Asia is attracting a good number as well.

Here's an article from a year back in the NY Times on the 'agonizing' brain drain in Germany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/world/europe/06germany.html?_r=1&hp&ex...

Dr.D,  Mexico gets with their unemployed sent across the US border a big plus because they get a pass on the revolution the greedy elites so well deserve. The Revolution gets postponed as it does for Muslim countries and their ruling elite. Absorbing the misery of Mexico in the US gives their elitist slobs a break, same in Europe with the absorption of unskilled  Muslim masses.

They win, we lose, thanks to the lame leftist's misplaced sense of guilt and stupidity in the realm of realpolitiks .

 Very nice, but where are those people? Half of the story is missing; someone leaves and supposedly arrives somewhere and does not turn into neutrinos.

 Departures:

Great Britain 3.247 million

Germany 860,000

America 410,000

France 370,000

Arrivals
?

So, some surely vent to USA, others to France, some to Great Britain, ... Thailand? Where are they? Without the other half  we know essentially nothing. What are the net values?

-- Raymond

Does the formatting work on this website? Why do I have to add empty lines, even if I see HTML markup when I edit an entry?

In the case of mexico, the loss of people is an advantage because their people are mostly ignorant and a drag on the economy. This is the opposite of Great Britain which, until recently, had a well educated population that was highly productive. They have chosen to replace them with an uneducated, unproductive, izlamic radical population that will live mostly at public expense. Just how this is a net gain for the country is hard to see, but it seems to be public policy none the less. What a shame!