Don’t look now, but the pressure of illegal immigration from Mexico could be about to grow, and all because of the rising price of tortillas. But it’s complicated and Mark in Mexico explains why:
"To get the prices for tortillas down, Calderón must allow the importation of more corn. In fact, he has to encourage it. The state of Iowa alone is capable of burying Mexico in a mountain of cheap and quite affordable corn meal [subsidized by U.S. government largess to argibusiness] …When that cheap corn meal hits Mexico, the country’s own producers, in most cases the small, already dirt poor farmers, will be out of business…If Mexicans want to enjoy lower tortilla prices, they’ll have to buy corn meal from Iowa…[which Mexican politicos hate to do]…For millions of Mexico’s poor, the tortilla is about all they’ve got and all they’ve ever had. And now they cannot afford even that."
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 