PS may know family, but I must say respectfully she does not know economics or trade. This is the kind of thinking that gave us Smoot-Hawley, the Crash of '29 and the Great Depression. Competition is the way the world works, and building walls of chain link or taxes will not change that fact. I am an originalist on matters of the Constitution and our national interests, and I look out for the interests of ordinary working people. The more we can integrate Central and South America into productive roles in our culture, the better for all of us.
The more we integrate with those cultures, the more we lose our sovereignty. Do you really want us to follow in the path of the Europeans?
You seem to be utterly clueless to the fact that since NAFTA and GATT our trade deficits and budget deficits have soared, same with illegal immigration (which includes numerous thugs committing all sorts of mayhem on Americans), debt at all levels (fed, personal, corporate) has increased tremendously, property taxes in areas servicing illegals rise unabated to deliver them all their "services" and benefits, etc. so try as I might fail to see how this all works in the interest of working people.
Phyllis Schafley knows perfectly well that it is non-college educated Americans who are bearing the brunt of free trade as they must compete with cheap illegal and offshore labor, a competition which can only result in them being reduced to a third world standard of living. And that is why Joe Sixpack is dead against CAFTA and NAFTA and free trade in general because he is getting the shaft.