The purpose of NAFTA-- fyi. You can also search out "mode 4" or "mode four" in GATS and the WTO website. The "free movement of persons" was decided a long time ago, before Clinton ever signed the bill that created the WTO.
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At a continental level, the N.A.F.T.A. is ultimately aimed at allowing the free movement of labour and its products across national boundaries. Ongoing restriction of this movement is supposed to allow the public and private sectors to adjust to a continental market, before starting the free movement of workers across borders. While this seems like a logical process, it can equally be argued that these restrictions, once again, benefit only the largest corporate interests within all three nations, while dooming smaller companies and individual workers to a type of regional labour bondage, which in turn legislates an ever deepening pit of poverty for the vast majority, and a non-competitive profiteering environment for the elite minority. At times it seems the true objective of the N.A.F.T.A.'s implementation schedule, is to make sure huge corporations get all the cream out of the free trade environment, before smaller entrepreneurs can get a look-in.
Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers
Sheila Greckol, Jeffrey Sack, Claude Melançon
http://www.naalc.org/english/review_annex5_can.shtml
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CAFTA will increase illegal immigration. The services clause in CAFTA is an implementation of the GATS Mode-1 of the WTO. Mode-1 is the cross border supply of services, including business process outsourcing.
There are at least 4 Modes in GATS. Mode-4 is the free movement of natural persons also known as Foreigners employed by host entities.
Because CAFTA, NAFTA and the FTAA are all negotiated under the auspices of the GATS and the WTO, you can bet that mode-4 will be implemented as part of a "free trade" agreement.
Here are the modes:
mode one, cross-border trade;
mode two, consumption abroad;
mode three, commercial presence;
mode four, presence of natural persons