États-Unis-Mexique: option gagnante pour tout le monde à la frontière?

Donald Trump a fait de la sécurité à la frontière son principal cheval de bataille alors que le nouveau président mexicain se présente comme un ardent défenseur des plus démunis. Les deux leaders ont intérêt à collaborer et Reihan Salam propose ici une solution audacieuse. On favorise l'installation de retraités américains au Mexique où ils s'entoureront d'une main-d'oeuvre adéquate en raison d'améliorations apportées au programme Medicare.

 "Needless to say, such a proposal would be sure to meet with ferocious resistance from U.S. medical providers who fear the prospect of foreign competition, and their political allies would surely denounce it as part of a larger plot to export aging Americans en masse. But U.S. retirees are growing more diverse, and a large and growing number of them have origins in Mexico. Many of them would welcome the opportunity to reconnect with their ancestral homeland, provided they wouldn’t have to surrender the promise of high-quality medical care in their twilight years in the process.

The benefits for Mexico would be immeasurable. Though export-oriented manufacturing has helped the country climb to upper-middle-income status, the truth is that low-skill, labor-intensive manufacturing won’t be enough to propel Mexico into the ranks of the world’s most affluent market democracies, not least because automation and offshoring to lower-cost locales will likely limit wage and employment gains. Further developing labor-intensive services, however, holds great promise for closing the still-yawning gap separating living standards north and south of the U.S.-Mexico border, and also for incorporating the recent Central American influx."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/migration-proposal-help-both-us-and-mexico/576781/