Illegal immigration was a significant problem long before NAFTA and the conditions which encourage it have nothing to do with NAFTA - there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that NAFTA accelerated, let alone created the immigration crisis and there is evidence to suggest that NAFTA mildly alleviated it.
Were you paying attention when he stated that NAFTA would NOT "create jobs"--but rather, reduce US factory employment AND impoverish the Mexicans?
America has more jobs today and a lower unemployment rate than it did pre-NAFTA. NAFTA was not a factor in the "loss" of the precious factory jobs you love so much (although I'll guess that you do not work in a factory yourself), they were decreasing rapidly pre-NAFTA.
and most of the factory work went to nations other than Mexico, like China and Indonesia.
The tariff penalty pre-NAFTA on manufacturing abroad was already offset by Mexico's labor costs. Plenty of American manufacturers relocated to Mexico before NAFTA and most of the factory work went to nations other than Mexico, like China and Indonesia after NAFTA - not to Mexico.
Mexicans have not been impoverished by NAFTA but have seen their GDP increase.
So PJB was wrong about everything so far.
Were you paying attention when he identified the "Culture War" as the next great problem facing the US--and pointed out that this "culture war" was both internal AND related to the US' asinine immigration policies, where non-Judaeo-Christian-culture (read: Muslims) were effectively creating non-US-culture islands in the USA (not to mention Hollywood/MSM/Professorial-class bozos?
Besides the fact that this is not an economic prediction as I specified, PJB's speech did not mention Islam.
It focused on the gay rights movement and the increasing culture of criminality on the rise in the US as exemplified by the LA riots.
If you are saying that PJB predicted Al-Qaeda in his convention speech you are now in the realm of fantasy.
I was old enough to listen to the speech, remember what he actually said and recognize the flawed economic analysis in it.
"America has more jobs today and a lower unemployment rate than it did pre-NAFTA."
The unemployment rate figures are tallied very differently now, as opposed to pre-NAFTA times. Remember, by GWB's decree, once you have used up your 26 week allotment of unemployment insurance, you're "persona-non-grata" and simply vanish off the rolls of unemployed persons.
"fuzzy math, at work"