I think it all goes back to NAFTA. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, was supposed to increase prosperity throughout the continent, instead brought economic insecurity to U.S. workers and a meltdown in Mexico. The low-wage, assembly line jobs never got to Mexico; they left the U.S. and went skipping over the ocean to Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, the dumping of U.S. agricultural products on the Mexican market, coupled with “agrarian reform” pushed millions of Mexicans off the land and over the border.

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