[Toddsterpatriot]

Millions of Mexicans lost their jobs and are now so desperate that a million move to the USA each year, hundreds willing to die to get here ---- post NAFTA of course. Immigration from Mexico before NAFTA was a trickle.

So, Americans lost their jobs because cheaper goods were bought from Mexican companies? And Mexicans (farmers?) lost jobs because cheaper American agricultural products were available?

And the money saved wasn't beneficial to both countries?

Millions of American farmers lost their jobs after mechanical reapers were invented. Do you miss the more expensive food too?

As far as the flood of Mexican immigration, build a wall. Make Mexico take care of their own.

[FITZ]

And Mexicans (farmers?) lost jobs because cheaper American agricultural products were available? And the money saved wasn't beneficial to both countries? Millions of American farmers lost their jobs after mechanical reapers were invented.

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 don't know if much money was saved and it's difficult to see the benefit --- here many people collected NAFTA-TAA for a few years and still don't have jobs. I doubt that government social spending on the combined welfare programs: TANF, Medicaid, food stamps, NAFTA-TAA, TAA, government housing, WIC and all the rest is down and recently states like California and Texas have great difficulty in balancing their budgets in spite of taxes at record rates.

We've never before seen the levels of desperation that we see now in Mexico --- hundreds willing to die trying to leave their homeland --- it was never so bad before NAFTA.