Mexico will also benefit from NAFTA. finding large new markets in the United States for those products which it can efficiently and effectively produce and export. As Mexicans benefit. both as producers and consumers. they will successfully demand political and environmental reforms impossible to impose upon a poverty stricken country. At the same time. more of them will decide that they can succeed by staying at home in a culture in which they have grown and prospered. and the pressures of illegal immigration into the United States will at least be lessened. It should be obvious to everyone. though ignored by many of NAFTAs opponents. that Mexico will continue to be our southern neighbor. and that a growing and prosperous Mexico is a far better neighbor than would be an embittered and poverty stricken one. As important as our trade relationship with Mexico is. it is dwarfed by our interest in a freer and more open worldwide trading regime.
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