“doubt that the management of Deere wanted to pack up and leave for Mexico to set up shop there - it’s not exactly the best place for Americans to raise children.”
They won’t live there. They will have luxury corporate villas and fly in and out in Gulfstreams for a few days. They will all have 19 year old Mexican “maids”. “No honey, it’s not near the beach. It’s a kinda rough industrial area, you and the kids might as well stay here. I’ll just be a few days.”
Add in cheap foreign labor bumping the stock price and their bonuses.
Disneyland for executive dads.
“leave for Mexico”
My Democratic neighbors used to live in El Paso and knew many US managers supervising Mexican operations.