Virtually all the output of these factories will be shipped northward back across the border. It is the height of selfdelusion to suppose that exporting our productive capacity to a low wage manufacturing area is evidence of a potentially golden market for U.S. goods. With the immigration issue having reached crisis proportions in some parts of the United States. it is claimed that NAFTA will slow Mexican immigration to the United States. If so. it would be the first time in recorded history that expanded commerce reduced the flow of people between the participating states. NAFTA will produce winners and losers not just in the United States. but in Mexico as well.
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