[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes machines increase productivity --- but instead of inventing machines we're importing tons of cheap labor --- going the other direction. Millions of Mexican farmers went bankrupt after NAFTA was signed --- which is one reason for the millions coming over the border.

I'm all for closing the borders right now.

[FITZ]

I think what would have benefitted Mexico --- and us too because then we wouldn't have millions of indigent uneducated desperate people flooding over the borders ----- would have been if instead of losing their farms to competition from the USA, that they would have little by little begun to import tractors and other farm machinery from the USA ---- at least before NAFTA, they weren't rich but were self-reliant, at least making ends meet. Now they have lost their farms and have no jobs so head to the USA to either get on welfare programs and/or take menial jobs.