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The Geopolitics of Immigration
January 15, 2004 2245 GMT
The United States is a nation of immigrants. That is the ultimate cliché and the absolute truth. The debate under way in the United States over Mexican immigration probably reflects the oldest American debate: Are new immigrants a blessing or a catastrophe? But the Mexican border situation is unique, and controlling the movement of an indigenous population in a borderland whose frontiers do not cohere to social or economic reality is impossible.

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