In both cases, the crisis appears to be over, but the fury remains. In the United States, the pattern is somewhat similar. In fact, from 2007 to 2016, the number of undocumented Mexicans living in the United States fell by 1.5 million. When Trump was on the campaign trail he suggested that the actual unemployment rate in the United States might have been as high as 42 percent. Whenever crises flare up in liberal, democratic, capitalist societies, there is a tendency to blame the political and economic systems.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 30, 2019 22:30 UTC