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Source: http://www.hutchnews.com/news/region...can042406.html

America might want to stop illegal immigration, but most Mexicans accept it as a fact of life they can't imagine changing.

Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue - and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow.

President Vicente Fox is one of many Mexicans who considers the migrants "heroes," because they send money to their impoverished home villages, and in some cases risk death walking into America in pitiless desert sun.

"A lot of people who leave already have jobs lined up," said Daniel Escalona Garcia, who sells building materials - largely for homes being built for absent migrants.

Few in Mexico question the prevailing feeling that Mexicans have an inalienable right to go north, documented or not.

"The policy of not interfering with the flow of migrants has always been the easiest route.