Free Republic

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has passed the Senate 54-45 and now moves to the House. If passed, the implementation of CAFTA would expand NAFTA--the 1993 free trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico--to include Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Judging by the miserable failure of NAFTA to accomplish any of its stated goals, CAFTA can be expected to further increase the U.S. trade deficit, loss of American jobs, poverty in Central America, and the influx of poor illegal immigrants to the United States. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for...