Daily Inspiration Quote by Vicente Fox

Fox’s line is the sound of a politician trying to sell restriction as inevitability, then laundering that inevitability through technocracy. “At the very end” pushes the uncomfortable part - “immigration will be reduced considerably” - into a distant, almost naturalized future, as if migration were a dial that history itself is turning down. The question that follows (“And how can we get to that stage?”) is a rhetorical feint: he frames enforcement not as a blunt political choice but as a process problem with a managerial solution.

The key phrase, “agreements on sectors,” is where the subtext lives. It signals a preference for controlled, negotiated labor flows: agriculture, construction, services - the categories that let economies keep what they want from migration (workers) while limiting what they fear (permanent settlement, political claims, cultural anxiety). “Sectors” reduces human movement to spreadsheets and quotas, converting a moral and social conflict into an economic coordination exercise. It also functions as code for binational bargaining, especially in the Mexico-U.S. orbit: migration becomes something governments and industries can “manage” together, rather than something driven by wage gaps, violence, and family networks.

Context matters: Fox governed during a period when Mexico was pitching itself as a modernizing democracy while the U.S. debate hardened after 9/11. His intent is to make cross-border mobility legible to skeptical audiences: not open borders, not mass expulsions, but a controlled pipeline. The irony is that “sector agreements” promise order while admitting the system’s real engine is demand - and demand rarely stays neatly inside policy boxes.