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[It is a myth that] NAFTA will reduce illegal immigration. As manufacturing in northern Mexico expands, hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers will be drawn north. They will quickly find that wages in the Mexican maquiladora plants cannot compete with wages anywhere in the US. Out of economic necessity, many of these mobile workers will consider illegally immigrating into the US. In short, NAFTA has the potential to increase illegal immigration, not decrease it.

Source: Save Your Job, Save Our Country, by Ross Perot, p. 72 Jan 1, 1993

Anti-NAFTA experts mentioned that the trade pact would undermine Mexican agriculture to the point where Mexican peasants would look for jobs in the US. That wasn't Perot's main point, but it looks like he may have been right about the overall effect on immigration to the US. Perot stressed the effect of NAFTA on American jobs, but it wasn't the whole of the argument that he and others made against NAFTA.

[Age of Reason]

Of course NAFTA is the major cause of illegal immigration from Mexico.

Globalism has also made many American factory towns into near ghost towns, throwing Americans out of their livelihoods, homes, and neighborhoods.

Globalists remind me of those dictators--like Stalin--who forcibly uproot millions of people to make them live and work in ways the dictators consider more efficient.

Free trade ideology is doing the same thing: uprooting people and turning their lives upside down . . .

. . . but under the excuse that it's not the globalists, but the "free market" doing it.

Like Stalin and other perpetrators of mass economic migration failures . . .

. . . the instigators of free trade say all the suffering of their victims is for their own good and they should just suck it up . . .

. . . and let the globalists do what the globalists think is best for everybody.