"It's very beneficial to Mexico that these workers [come to the U. S.]. It relieves a lot of social tension. It empties out the countryside of the poor and the needy. It stops revolution from happening. And it's sending back a tidal wave of money. The remittance money from the United States is the second or third largest source of income in Mexico now. I guess you could argue that we have an extremely generous foreign policy…"
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On how migrant workers benefit Mexico in some way in “INTERVIEWS: Luis Alberto Urrea” in BookPage (April 2004)
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