[crpatino]

I have seen the responses to this, and all seem very reasonable. We have our fair share of problems down of the border.

However, economy triumps everything. Down here, you can hire talented, English-speaking recent graduates for USD$15k or less. Many companies are already doing this and the main reason they do not do it faster is that the talent pool is constrained. That, too, is changing, due to the growing pool of would be mentors.

Indian companies, such as Tata, are doing this too. Their main motivation is to have multiple locations around the sun to implement their "follow the sun" support system, but a huge side effect is reduced cost. They hire plenty of local talent too, but bring lots of immigrants from their mainland. In the last 10 years, all the posh neighbourhoods in the south side of my town are seeing the arrival of Asian populations, formerly unheard off.