“the drug cartel boys and coyotes will have to go back to shucking agave plants”
I think that a (the) major driver of the NAFTA replacement (USMCA) was to rip a lot of business out of China, and split it between (low wage) Mexico and (high skill) USA.
With more jobs in Mexico, there is less pressure for them to migrate here.
Similarly, there is a war of sorts brewing, to break the Mexican cartels, to address another structural pressure driving migration from Mexico to the USA - poor security.
Even stronger than the push to migration from cartel crime rates, is the pull to migration from the cartel’s human trafficking operations.
Those cartels need to be broken to secure the border, otherwise they will have (and use) the money for sophisticated methods of penetrating even the strongest border fortifications.
Thx for adding detail. Mexico became more cooperative a year ago with asylum, end of catch and release , ...
USMCA future plans were spelled out to them and they stopped being resistant and now helping us to break the back of China.
i must admit i was exaggerating to try to make a point. my initial vision was that they would all be on an assembly line, working on flat panel displays. (however, that vision is not as poetic as working on an agave farm, so...)