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To: AH_LiveRight
Now you want to kill agriculture and trade between the US and Mexico?

Yeah, what would I do without a pack of tortillas? Oh yeah, what about all those American companies that went down to Mexico for their low wage peasant labor?

That's why I said, it's all about profits, big business keeping the border open.

I know as well as you do, they won't do anything to stop the human flood from Mexico into the U.S.

24 posted on 04/27/2009 2:26:13 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2
“The United States exported $7.9 billion in agricultural products to Mexico in 2003, a new record. Mexico
is the United States’ third largest agricultural market. Under NAFTA, Mexico has eliminated nearly all
import tariffs and tariff-rate quotas on agricultural products from the United States. As of January 1,
2003, the only U.S. agricultural exports subject to tariffs or tariff-rate quotas are corn, sugar, dry beans,
chicken leg quarters, and non-fat dry milk.”http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2004/2004_National_Trade_Estimate/2004_NTE_Report/asset_upload_file31_4781.pdf

That is more than a pack of tortillas. Mexico has substandard health care, and a corrupt government. Yet they are a major provider of oil to the USA, and we have a very large agricultural trade. They are a bad neighbor, but they are our neighbor. Sure they dump their Mestizo's and natives here. We oughta just put them on the reservations like we did with ours.

37 posted on 04/27/2009 4:03:13 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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