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AC Solvency: A/t - #3 “Economy is Biggest Factor” 31
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2AC Solvency: A/t - #3 “Economy is Biggest Factor” 311) Our argument isn’t just about immigration, it is about drug violence. The plan can still solve for cartels and terrorism without solving every immigration issue. As long as we decrease violence, we solve for our Harms. 2) U.S. economic assistance will open up Mexico’s economy, solving immigration by creating good jobs south of the border. ROBERTS AND ORTEGA, 08 [James, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth in the Center for International Trade and Economics; Israel, Senior Media Services Associate in the Media Services Department, at The Heritage Foundation; “How Reforms in Mexico Could Make the U.S. More Secure,” 5/13, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/05/how-reforms-in-mexico-could-make-the-us-more-secure] To remedy this situation, the Mexican government should open its oil, natural gas, and electricity generation and distribution sectors to private investment and participation. It should also break up private-sector monopolies and duopolies with more effective anti-trust legislation. The U.S. government should offer technical assistance to help Mexico liberalize and open up its economy. The resulting flood of new private investment would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs that would encourage many would-be economic migrants to remain at home in Mexico. 3) Economic reforms would make staying in Mexico more attractive to potential immigrants, solving border issues. ROBERTS AND ORTEGA, 08 [James, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth in the Center for International Trade and Economics; Israel, Senior Media Services Associate in the Media Services Department, at The Heritage Foundation; “How Reforms in Mexico Could Make the U.S. More Secure,” 5/13, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/05/how-reforms-in-mexico-could-make-the-us-more-secure] If the Mexican government were to make the many changes needed to reduce the "supply push," and if the U.S. were simultaneously to make necessary changes in its immigration laws to weaken the "demand pull," there would be several positive developments. In Mexico, the result would be the creation of new, sustainable private-sector jobs. More Mexicans would want to stay home to start businesses, and others would stay to work for them. Some Mexican migrants currently working in the United States would very likely return home, using their savings to start small businesses. On the U.S. side of the border, prospective employers of legal immigrants would be forced to pay the full, true cost of that labor, including taxes to offset the additional costs to the government that are generated by these new residents, thereby weakening the demand magnet. The result would be a lessening of migration pressures at the U.S. –Mexico border, a reduction in the U.S. unemployment rate, and improved U.S. national security. 2AC Solvency: A/t - #4 “Geography Prevents Cooperation” 321) The reverse is true - geography forces Mexico to listen to U.S. demands and make policies based on U.S. assistance. STARR, 11 [Pamela, Director, U.S.-Mexico Network, and Associate Professor (NTT) University Fellow, Center on Public Diplomacy at University of Southern California; “U.S.-Mexico Relations and Mexican Domestic Politics,” college.usc.edu/usmexnet/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Camp-Oxford-paper-final.doc] One of the most important sources of Mexico’s historic vulnerability to U.S. power is its geographic position on the southern (and previously western) border of the United States. In the years after Mexico’s 1821 independence, an insecure and expansionist United States facing the intrigues of European powers on its borders was an active player in Mexican domestic affairs to counter British influence in a country characterized by persistent political instability. Twenty-five years later, the United States initiated a war that deprived Mexico of half of its territory and transformed the United States into a continental power. For most of the remainder of the nineteenth century, U.S. intervention in Mexican affairs declined markedly owing to internal U.S. challenges (the Civil War and Reconstruction) and the rise of a stable, relatively pro-U.S. government in Mexico. During the early twentieth century, however, Mexican political instability again invited U.S. intervention in a failed attempt to steer the Mexican Revolution in a direction amenable to U.S. interests. Failing that, the United States repeatedly exploited its military and economic power to force Mexico to adopt policies more “acceptable” to the United States. 2) The government is already proposing reforms to strengthen the Mexican economy. ROBERTS AND ORTEGA, 08 [James, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth in the Center for International Trade and Economics; Israel, Senior Media Services Associate in the Media Services Department, at The Heritage Foundation; “How Reforms in Mexico Could Make the U.S. More Secure,” 5/13, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/05/how-reforms-in-mexico-could-make-the-us-more-secure] Calderón is acutely aware of the huge growth opportunities that Mexico is missing domestically, as well as Mexico's increasing vulnerability to competition from Asia, and has proposed an ambitious package of reforms to the Mexican Congress. Calderón's reputation as a pragmatist may help him strike a political deal with the lawmakers. The PRI's nearly 80-year hold on political power in the Congress through deeply entrenched, well-connected economic monopolies, however, is proving difficult for Calderón to unravel. In a hopeful sign, Calderón recently announced the creation of a $25 billion fund to build highways, bridges, and other infrastructure. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Calderón wants to avoid dependence "on the external motor of the U.S. economy" to keep Mexico growing. He also warned that Mexico must make "difficult decisions" to reverse the decline in Pemex's production and to raise funds from a source other than the government budget to "pay for exploration in the deeper waters of the Gulf of Mexico." The money, Calderón said, could come only from two sources: reducing government spending for public services or looking to the examples of China, Norway, and Brazil, where the state-owned oil companies benefit from private investment. 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