That is true, and not NAFTA’s fault, either.
NAFTA cost us jobs.
All one has to do is consider the textile industry. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost.
All you have to do is go across the border into Mexico and see all the USA companies manufacturing down there — automotive, appliances, etc. The list is long.
Caterpillar has multiple facilities just south of the border. I believe it’s 18. Wasn’t too many years ago that they closed 5 facilities in Mississippi and moved all those jobs to Mexico.
They are paying very low wages for these jobs in Mexico. USA workers have to compete against it. It should be very easy to see that we lost jobs in this deal.
Bill Clinton told us that the low paid 50 year old woman in the textile mill would be retrained with a tech job making more money. That never happened and the jobs weren’t there. This was not too long before the tech crash on Wall Street.
So unless you aspire to have your kids working in a garment-sewing factory, or wish to do it yourself . . . .