“Leading exactly to Schlafly’s fallacy: the “oversupply of foreigners willing to work for lower wages” is a result of illegal immigration, not NAFTA”
Schlafly is right of course, and rudeboy is predictably more concerned with trying to defend a flawed trade bill rather than the border.
NAFTA is directly connected to the huge increase in illegal immigration that followed its passage. One of the earliest effects of NAFTA was the opening of Mexican markets to cheaper American wheat and corn.
This put thousands of small Mexican farms out of business and the newly jobless Mexicans headed north across the US border. INS surveyed the illegals they picked up and the cause of the post-NAFTA surge was well studied.
Since none of the enforcement provisions of the 1986 Amnesty beloved by rudeboy were implemented the flood of NAFTA illegals was free to enter the US. And now the treason lobby wants even more.
Strawman #2.
And the notion that illegal immigration would not be a problem in the absence of NAFTA is delusional. So those low-skilled, low-income farm workers would be coming despite what Ralph Nader and his fellow-travelers claim.
His charts showing increases in the number of jobs and wage rates since 1994 were clearly flawed thinking. If someone doesn’t think we lost jobs because of NAFTA, they weren’t paying close attention.