When your neighors are having problems YOU WILL TOO.
Works the same way whether we're talking about ourselves as individuals, or about nations themselves.
There's no free lunch in human economics, folks.
Much of the recent pressure leading to illegal immigation is caused by NAFTA.
While, yes it put some Mexicans to work it ALSO put millions of Mexican family farmers out of work.
Why?
Because NAFTA also meant that small Mexican family farms have to compete with large US agricultural corporations, that's why.
And since that same economic reality that has driven small US family farms out of business, that economic fact is NOW driving small Mexican farming families out of business.
Like I say, no free lunch in economics.
Incorrectly push on the economy in one way, and it unhappily bulges out in another.
Works the same way whether we're talking about ourselves as individuals, or about nations themselves.
There's no free lunch in human economics, folks.
Much of the recent pressure leading to illegal immigation is caused by NAFTA.
While, yes it put some Mexicans to work it ALSO put millions of Mexican family farmers out of work.
Why?
Because NAFTA also meant that small Mexican family farms have to compete with large US agricultural corporations, that's why.
And since that same economic reality that has driven small US family farms out of business, that economic fact is NOW driving small Mexican farming families out of business.
Like I say, no free lunch in economics.
Incorrectly push on the economy in one way, and it unhappily bulges out in another.
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