“Yes. Create some decent jobs in Mexico and maybe they won’t flood in here.”
Where’ve you been. People have been using that line for at least twenty-five years. That’s what the maquilidora plants were supposed to accomplish a couple of decades ago. Then that was one of the reasons NAFTA just had to be passed in 1993 (?). Both those fantasies only made the illegal immigration problem worse (as opponents predicted), even after about three million US manufacturing jobs went south of the border.
Some are definitely into the trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result stage.
Until there’s drastic reform in Mexico, nothing will work, but I haven’t heard W say a word about what needs to change there.
“Where’ve you been. People have been using that line for at least twenty-five years. That’s what the maquilidora plants were supposed to accomplish a couple of decades ago. Then that was one of the reasons NAFTA just had to be passed in 1993 (?). Both those fantasies only made the illegal immigration problem worse (as opponents predicted), even after about three million US manufacturing jobs went south of the border.
Some are definitely into the trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result stage.
Until there’s drastic reform in Mexico, nothing will work, but I haven’t heard W say a word about what needs to change there.”
EXACTLY ! NAFTA was sold to us on that basis. WE got SCREWED.
MEXICO needs to fix its own problems but it won’t. WHy should they? Their corrupt system works just FINE as long as the USA is a CO_DEPENDENT/ enabler in the scheme.
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When did those 3 million jobs move south of the border? Maybe you're confused? Maybe it was before NAFTA?
