Would education be a long-term Mexican immigration solution?

In the long run, wouldn't education improve Mexico's standard of living? Mexico has immense oil and natural resource reserves, nearly as much farmable area as the United States, and infinite source of artistic, crafty, hard-working people. They have so much, and yet, without education and training opportunities, many have no escape from poverty. Our government seems to offer expensive, short-term solutions to the immigration dilemma, such as building billion dollar fences. Wouldn't it make more sense to do something long term? Spend a billion dollars improving education in Mexico, and in ten or twenty years, Mexico will have to build a fence to keep poverty-stricken American's out.