{"id":1954,"date":"2010-04-28T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2010-04-28T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:29:52","slug":"a-game-changer-in-the-immigration-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/28\/a-game-changer-in-the-immigration-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"A game changer in the immigration debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a new scandal or a piece of legislation or a bigger, higher fence.  It&#8217;s demographics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/americas\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15959332&amp;source=hptextfeature\">The Economist<\/a> is reporting on a remarkable shift in Mexican culture, with families there having far, far fewer children.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1960s Mexican mothers had nearly seven children each (whereas  women in India then had fewer than six). The average now is just over  two\u2014almost the same as in the United States. The UN reckons that from  2040 the birth rate in Mexico will be the lower of the two.  The fall follows a government u-turn nearly 40 years ago, when a  contraception campaign replaced the previous nation-building policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the kind of change that will produce overnight shift in the border tension.\u00a0 Mexico&#8217;s population isn&#8217;t expected to peak until 2043.<\/p>\n<p>But long-term it could bring North American societies into far closer balance, with the US, Canada and Mexico all moving toward more stable, older populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a new scandal or a piece of legislation or a bigger, higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}