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In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.