November 21, 2007 (LPAC)--There is a "tsunami" underway of Mexicans being deported from the United States, which we believe will reach one million in 2007 alone, by the end of the year, members of the Advisory Council of the Mexican Government's Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), warned in a November 16 press conference.

Council members made that stunning projection after a two-day closed-door meeting on the immigrant crisis, held at the Foreign Relations Ministry. IME Advisory Council members are leading Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and Mexican-Canadians.

Around 170 anti-immigrant laws have been passed in the U.S. in the last few months alone, whipping up "hatred" against Mexicans, whether they are legal or undocumented, council member Hugo Loyo said. Members warned that the increasing anti-immigrant raids of workplaces and homes across the United States are creating a "truly critical" situation for Mexico, which must find jobs, housing, food, education, and health care for hundreds of thousands of people being dumped just over the border by U.S. officials, without financial resources or belongings, often far from any family which could offer support.

Over 10 per cent of the Mexican population has migrated to the United States--some 13 million Mexicans--at an accelerating rate since the 1994 North American Free Trade Accord (NAFTA) crushed Mexico's own industry and agriculture. Come January 2008, another 2.2 million Mexican farmers will be thrown into bankruptcy, when all protection on corn and bean imports ends, under the next phase of NAFTA. Any fool can see, that a vast explosion is brewing south of the border, if the United States and Mexico do not cooperate to rebuild their economies.

Cooperation on building an integrated water and rail system for all North America, connecting regional water management projects, like the giant North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) to Mexico's North West Water Plan (PLHINO), is the way to go, Lyndon LaRouche emphasized again on November 19. How many good jobs would be created inside Mexico by the PLHINO/NAWAPA program? How can the agricultural situation in Mexico be transformed by this project? End the flooding in the south, and the drought in the north, and create the conditions for flourishing agriculture in Mexico. Create jobs for the next ten years, building these integrated water plans, which have already been designed. Link these projects to the Russian-U.S.-Canadian Bering Strait tunnel project, with its railways and development corridors, and there will be plenty of work for people in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.