THEIR WALL DIDN'T WORK EITHER?:

China's Immigration Problem: Illegal aliens are streaming across a porous border for low-paying (Gady Epstein, 07.01.10, Forbes Magazine)

Employers have vacancies to fill, the minimum wage is going up, workers are demanding more and the legal burdens of hiring are mounting. So bosses are looking across the border for much cheaper, illegal labor, from a pool of people willing to work for a lot less than the natives.

Arizona? Texas? Try Guangxi and Guangdong. Tens of thousands of illegal aliens from Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations are crossing into southern China each year to climb the economic ladder, as Chinese and Vietnamese officials grapple with a growing trafficking business across the porous border between the two nations.

Chinese factories certainly aren't discouraging the trend.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 1, 2010 6:22 PM