The nation in which the Population Conference is being held. Mexico. has since 1977 managed to bring its population increase rate down to 2.4 per thousand. But that nation still faces incredible population pressures from the children already born who need education and health care. from the young people who look in vain for employment. and from the rural migrants who are crowding into the slums of Mexico City faster than they can ever be absorbed. Our own Nation faces an immigration problem on our southern border that is a direct outgrowth of the clash between population growth and economic development. In the face of such a reality. it is shortsighted to urge that simple government deregulation of the economy can somehow accommodate the needs of the millions of children being born every year in countries which do not even have adequate drinking water systems for the existing population. It is important to note what this debate is not about.
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