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The oro years 
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Boomers can retire cheaper in Mexico and could help reduce illegal immigration.

By Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author, most recently, of "Power, Terror, Peace and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk."

September 18 2005

AS DEBATES OVER Social Security and Medicare heat up, Americans might feel like doing what the old urban myth says the Inuit do: Ship the old folks out on the ice floes. It's cheap, simple and good for the polar bears. 

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