[rmnunez]

Migration from Mexico has more to do with the fact one is paid 8 to 10 times more for the same job in the US than anything else.

Though the Mexican government could certainly do more to promote conditions fostering employment, governments in general don't control their economies which tend to improve and generate jobs or not based on market trends and business cycles.

Governments try to control their economies using tax incentives, interest rates, trade barriers and through infrastructural improvements. But the Mexican government inadequately taxes and lacks the resources, it has been ridden with corruption for eons and unaccustomed to accounting for much. Right now the hot topic in Mexican politics is the proposed national reforms which would include constitutional amendments and a much more effective tax system. Naturally this worries a lot of people who tend to adopt the traditional political postures. Maneuvering fiscal incentives, trade barriers and infrastructural upgrades to promote economic development is hard enough when done by a fully-developed superpower with a huge population and a tremendous economy, when this is attempted by an inexperienced and much poorer government in a lesser-developed country, success is more uncertain.