Foreign plants in Mexico give workers skills and rising expectations which. combined with extremely low wages. give Mexicans powerful new incentives to head northward illegally in search of higher wages. Visitors to southern California are keenly aware of the pressures pushing Mexicans northward out of the maquiladora zone. Ninety percent of illegal Mexican immigrants to the United States cross the border just south of San Diego. The highways south of San Diego are marked with yellow signs warning motorists to watch out for illegal immigrants crossing the road. Here in the east we have deer crossing signs. In the Midwest they have cow crossing signs. In southern California they have yellow signs with black silhouettes of immigrant families on the run. This. too. is the future of the United States if NAFTA becomes law. Mr.
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