It never ceases to amaze me how many Freepers these days want to adopt the economic policy of import substition which was so popular in Latin America and much of Asia from the 1950s until the late 1980s. For all their ranting about "third world immigrants" (and, I must interject here, that I am for deporting ALL illegals myself), they certainly want to adopt the protectionist policies so popular in the Third World until relatively recently.
India and China were the biggest adherents to these policies, until gap between their economies and the economies of the West became too glaring to ignore. Both had convinced themselves that the West’s (relatively) open trade policies impoverished them, until they cut themselves off and discovered the meaning of real poverty.