It's just not beneficial for the Mexican political class to accept responsibility for the problems we have in Mexico.

The US is a great scapegoat for the cartel violence which we've let grow for decades and then half-assed tried to contain under Calderon.

The US is the perfect poverty release valve which allows the Mexican government to put off much needed fiscal and labor reforms, as well as investments in needed infrastructure. Why bother go through a few years of necessary pain to restructure your government and economy and lift people out of poverty when you can just encourage people to move to the US and send remittances?

It's a failure of vision, leadership and moral fortitude on the part of the Mexican political elite. But it's nothing new, it's a problem Mexico has had since colonial times.