Fox says U.S. will need Mexican labor by 2010

“ABOARD THE PRESIDENTE JUAREZ — Flying high above the Yucatán peninsula, Mexican President Vicente Fox leaned forward and pointed a finger to make this point: In a few years, he said, the United States may be begging Mexico for the very workers it’s now proposing to keep out by building a wall along the border.

With the looming retirement from the work force of the U.S. baby-boom generation, and with Mexico’s population growth-rate declining, immigration from Mexico will slow just as demand for workers in the United States will be growing, he told Knight Ridder in an interview aboard his presidential jet.”

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