The Global Economy

The global economy is on the front pages as Wall Street is shaken up. As political cartoonist Mike Luckovich from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has shown, Congress is now getting ready for a carefully planned bailout.

As far as immigration goes, we can expect the usual suspects to spew the same fear-mongering rhetoric about the reconquista and those illegals taking jobs that are designed to be exclusively American, i.e. blogger.
But what are the experts saying? Some say that the now derided masses are bound to become a desired commodity for the world's largest economies.

"In the future, the United States, Europe and Japan will compete for immigrants."

Those were the words of Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, a researcher with the Harvard Immigration Project, when presenting to an audience that was not necessarily the hot spot for open borders advocates: Western Connecticut State University.
Suarez-Orozco adds that men and women all over the world are changing societies one border-crossing, legal or not, at at time:

"Every second, Suarez-Orozco said, 20 human beings are crossing national boundaries somewhere in the world."

But what does that mean for the Underground Undergrads? In the coming weeks and months, we will not only be calling for a comprehensive and humane immigration reform, but also analyzing what the future brings to us in the post-globalized world.

Have a happy Sunday!