Calderon, on U.S. Trip, Says Growth will Cut Mexican Emigration.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, on a tour of the U.S., said emigration will be reduced by creating jobs and fostering economic growth at home.

"It's possible to transform Mexico from a nation that loses its best people to migration into a nation capable of generating opportunity for Mexicans on their own soil," Calderon said yesterday at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [...]

"One can attribute Mexico's political stability to that escape valve," said Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, director of the Mexico Project for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Calderon has come to realize he can't afford for there to be a vacuum on the immigration debate."

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