On the border: The floating population

“Deployment of the Utah National Guard to support the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona was the signal for beginning what public policy analysts call “unintended consequences.” It means non-military “collateral damage.”

For example, some experts predict that these actions will only increase the massing of would-be crossers on the Mexican side. Towns such as Tijuana, Mexicali, Agua Prieta, Ciudad Juarez, Reynosa and Matamoros _ already teeming with people _ will explode with new population. Already about 30 percent of migrants reaching the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas remained as residents during the past decade, according Maricela Garza Wong, director of the state’s Council on Population, or COESPO. They are referred to as the country’s “floating population,” poblacion flotante.”

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