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Endnotes
‡ Bread for the World uses the term ‘unauthorized’ and ‘illegal’ inter-
changably to refer to immigrants without legal authorization to be in
the United States.
1 Passel,
Jeffrey and Cohn D’Vera. September 2010. “U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade.” Pew
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4 Rosenblum, Marc. June 2010. “Testimony Before the National
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5 Cornelius, Wayne. Interview with 60 Minutes broadcast January
2020. http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2010/01/wayne-cornelius-featured-on-60minutes/.
6Gullette, Gregory S. Winter 2007. “Development Economics,
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8 Klugman, Joni. 2009. “Human Development Report 2009—Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development.” United Nations
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9 Burstein, John. April 2007. “U.S. Mexico Agricultural Trade and
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World Bank. 2007. World Bank Report 2008: Agriculture for Development.
10 Weintraub, Sidney and Duncan Wood. August 2010. “Cooperative
Mexican-U.S. Antinarcotics Efforts.” Center for Strategic and International Studies. http://csis.org/files/publication/100812_Weintraub_
MexicanUSAntinarc_Web.pdf.
Brands, Hal. May 2009. “Mexico’s Narco-Insurgency and U.S.
Counterdrug Policy.” Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War
College. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.
cfm?pubid=918.
11 Newland, Kathleen, and Hiroyuki Tanaka. October 2010. “Mobilizing Diaspora Entrepreneurship for Development.” Migration Policy
Institute. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/diasporas-entrepreneurship.pdf.
12 Schwartz, Eric. November 2010. “Respecting the Dignity and Human Rights of People on the Move: International Migration Policy for
the 21st Century.” U.S. Department of State. http://www.state.gov/g/
prm/rls/rmks/2010/150557.htm.
13 U.S. Embassy. January 2010. “Mexico: Poverty at a Glance.” http://
www.usembassy-mexico.gov/pdf/2010_Poverty_Fact_Sheet.pdf.
14 Government Accountability Office. July 2010. “Merida Initiative:
The U.S. Has Provided Counternarcotics and Anti-Crime Support
But Needs Better Performance Measures.” http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_
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15 Veillette, Connie, et. al. December 2007.
16 Seelke, Clare, et. al. June 2010. “Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for
Congress. Congressional Research Service. http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/145101.pdf.
17 Jiménez, Maria. October 2009. “Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant
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18 Seelke, Clare, et. al. June 2010.
19 For example, the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) which supports
grassroots development in Latin America, allocated $1.8 million to
Mexico in fiscal year 2009 and has allocated $56 million to Mexico
since 1972. Some IAF funding has been directed toward job creation
and poverty reduction programs. Durbin, Paula. “Inter-American
Foundation: 2009 in Review.” Inter-American Foundation.
20 Uphaus, Charles. June 2008. “Ending Hunger: The Role of A