It is expected that by 2025, most changes in diplomatic policy between the United States and Latin America will be driven by domestic policy in the United States. There are more and more immigrants from Mexico and its bordering countries. At some point, there will have to be immigration reform. President Obama has reinforced this in his terms, allowing legal residency for more people than ever. When living here and working here, it is expected that they will slowly get more rights in education and have a clearer path to citizenship. Texas and Arizona are slowly becoming less red with the voter registration of these Latin American immigrants, and in a few decades they might become swing states in the presidential elections.
This is the expectation of our nation in a decade. This has come very far from the United States policies in the past, what with building a wall between the United States and Mexico at the border with the Rio Grande. If George Bush had been a more recent president, there would be a very different outlook showing. The fact that Obama was elected when he was shows very positively on the outlook for Latin American immigrants in the United States. Of course, if there is a Republican elected in 2016, this projected future in 2025 could all change very drastically.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-m-leogrande/the-united-states-and-latin-america-2025_b_7156206.html
Especially living in Texas, we can see the prominent role that the Latino/Mexican/Hispanic community plays throughout the state. The incredible population of immigrants supports the economy and society of not only Texas, which thus supports the United States as a whole, and less restrictions on immigration and limited access/support could ultimately benefit the country quite a bit.
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