maybe there having trouble finding cheap labor ...... why pick tomatoes when you can cross the boarder and get it all ... a job picking tomatoes, free education for the kiddies, free health care for the whole clan .... and .... if you work it out just right ... gov. subsidies out the yang.
ya , I bet those mexican farmers WILL have a hard time competing.
That's exactly what's happening. You hit the nail squarely on the head.
Many believe that illegal immigrations from Latin America are increasing and will continue to increase because of the ripple effects of free trade policies that are causing economic woes and displacement for indigenous people and peasants in Latin America. Immigrants' rights groups note that they are serving increasing numbers of migrants from southern Mexico, particularly Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero, who they weren't seeing several years ago. Many of these indigenous immigrants don't even speak Spanish, making their prospects in the U.S. even more difficult.
"Migration is always a reflection of other social developments taking place," said Arnoldo Garcia. "Right now farmworkers are being displaced in Mexico, people are losing their jobs and land because of NAFTA."