The Politics of Immigration — in Mexico

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López's campaign has helped prompt a public debate over how to keep workers from fleeing to the U.S. Even among Mexico's élite, there is a growing discomfort--if not shame--caused by the extent to which the country's economy is being propped up by the $20 billion its migrants send home each year. But don't count on the flow stopping anytime soon. Wearing a frayed baseball cap, Iram Espinoza, 19, an unemployed electrician, came to hear López last week in Puebla. Six of his family members, including a father he rarely sees, work illegally in the U.S. "If López doesn't win," he says, "I'm going there too."