Migration and borders - Present and future challenges

The principal issues regarding international migration and borders facing the 2006 presidential campaigns include remittances, a guest-worker program, relations with the Mexican immigrant population in the United States, Mexico-United States relations, national security, human rights, and Central American immigration. These issues point to a larger debate concerning the course of social and economic development in Mexico and, more specifically, to the failure of more than 20 years of neoliberal economic policy.