Free trade and free markets do not necessarily go hand in hand. Nations have borders. This “free movement of labor” business is based in leftism; I suggest rejecting it, especially since it undermines national security.
Which is precisely why the US should stop the pretend free trade and negotiate beneficial trade agreements (to the US) which do not allow far more access to our markets than we are allowed to foreign markets. Our first priority should be national defense and creating an economy that will provide more jobs for the unemployed, and also for many of the perpetual beneficiaries of our out-of-control poverty programs.
Until we move large numbers of working age Americans from our trillion per year poverty programs to productive work, we have no hope of getting our spending under control.
Our trade policies and trade deficits over the past thirty or forty years are a primary cause of our $16+ trillion dollar national debt.
Are they serious? I can’t even go to Niagara Falls or the Windsor Casino anymore without a friggin passport.