The Institute of International Economics has examined this agreement and predicts a net gain of 170.000 jobs by 1995. with an increase of $16.7 billion in United States exports to Mexico. The U.S. International Trade Commission concludes that NAFTA will boost employment by 1 percent and the total gross domestic product of the United States by 5 percent. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicts 150.000 new jobs in the United States and that Mexican immigration to the United States will decrease as a result of expanded trade under NAFTA. These are highly respected institutes and their predictions are not to be scoffed at. How can we turn a deaf ear to projections like these?
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