IMO, a lot of free traders are reaping what they sewed.
We didn't have this mess of illegal immigration until NAFTA. NAFTA was supposed to stop the flow of illegal immigration but instead increased the flow. Now, if I read you correctly, you want us to beg or call the WTO. LOL!!!!
Mexico will remain corrupt. Orbrador, the front runner in the presidential election, is supported by Carlos Slim.
Mexico developed health care breakthroughs during the 1970's when petroleum prices were so high globally, so that's when their baby-boomer generation emerged. They're now old enough to need work and have flocked to the USA. Can you imagine how much worse things would be if it wasn't for NAFTA and the democracy that it helped empower reformers in Mexico to finally obtain for our neighboring #2 trading partner?
Incidentally Lopez Obrador is NOW in a statistical deadheat with the right-leaning Felipe Calderon (of the PAN party). The more we put pressure on Mexico, immigration-wise and pro-entrepreneurially, the less chance Lopez Obrador has of winning.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aggr.QF9O7bk&refer=latin_america
Mexico's Calderon Leads GEA-ISA Presidential Poll With 36%
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Felipe Calderon of Mexican President Vicente Fox's National Action Party led in a presidential poll for the first time, according to a survey by Grupo de Economistas Asociados-ISA.
Calderon had 36 percent support from likely voters, up from 32 percent in February, Mexico City-based consulting company GEA said today. Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has led polls in the past, placed second to 34 percent, down from 41 percent in the previous GEA poll.
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Felipe Calderon's PAN party is the closest, ideologically, to Ronald Reagan's style of the Republican Party. How is it that Leftie Lopez Obrador led the polls without uninterruption for yearS only to suddenly lose that lead for the first time last week? My view is that the immigration debate's having reached its recent feverish pitch made more Mexicans realize that they had better learn to swim on their own, rather than sink into liberalism like Venezuela has done behind Chavez. Presidential elections (and Congressional ones, and there's NO incumbency down there) transpire this July 2nd.