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Surely you do not believe that NAFTA caused all the migration of Mexicans north do you?

It certainly led to the sharp increase in Mexicans heading to the border --- but you must have remember Salinas even saying they needed to get rid of 25 million campesinos because after NAFTA they wouldn't be needed. In the late 1980s there were only several hundred thousand Mexicans living in the USA --- remember amnesty? After NAFTA --- 20 million. These million and more people coming over the border each year once had homes in jobs in Mexico --- when 20 million people move en masse to another country, it is because conditions in their country have deteriorated so much they no longer have hope in their homeland.

1,061 posted on 08/26/2003 9:26:44 PM PDT by FITZ

To: FITZ; Mad Dawgg

20,000,000 vs. several hundred thousand?

Did you pull those numbers out of the Millenial Year Application System Server?

1,062 posted on 08/26/2003 9:28:10 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)

"After NAFTA --- 20 million. These million and more people coming over the border each year once had homes in jobs in Mexico"

I see so NAFTA is Bad for the USA cause we ship all our Jobs to Mexico and NAFTA is bad for MEXICO because there are now no Jobs in Mexico.

Have I got it now?

1,064 posted on 08/26/2003 9:31:37 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)

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