So, if I understand correctly, your answer is to only trade with people who have comparable standards of living. OK, I don't agree with that.
We are not talking about free trade here; you are parroting the "corporate" line that this is all part of "free trade." This goes beyond that.
I'm parroting nothing. I stated that if you allow free trade, you will be in competition with people who will accept less monetary reward for their effort. I suppose other people including Corps. do say that, as it is clearly true.
We are talking about companies moving operations from the United States to an overseas location to allow them to pay its foreign employees less money than they were paying its American employees. This goes on with the tacit approval of the United States government.
Again, unless you seal the border, those plants will go out of business in the U.S. vice moving. You seem to think that they don't have to compete if they stay here. I'm not sure which world you are living in. As for "tacit approval of the United States Government", its none of the governments damned business one way or another what private individuals or corporations do with their money.
Your only possible, reasonable argument here is to argue to put in place a very complex and ever changing tariff structure designed solely to prevent poorer countries from selling their products here (not exactly a boon to American Consumers). I'd be happy to make an answer to that argument, but I'd first like to have you clearly make it.