And of course if you read down into this, it is all America’s fault — those mean, nasty, greedy capitalist gringitos. The nerve of them, employing Mexicans. People from all over Mexico have swarmed into Cd. Juarez and other border cities to work at the maquiladoras because they provide good, steady jobs that are unavailable elsewhere. If they are unable to live on the wages, why are they all still there, and why is there such competition for those jobs? Why haven’t they all starved to death? (Perhaps the cost of living is lower in Mexico? Just a guess....) This naive little writer seems surprised and disgusted that they aren’t paid the American minimum wage. If they were, these poor people wouldn’t have jobs, their jobs would be here. Unfortunately for the Mexicans, those jobs that this writer so scorns are moving to China and other places in East Asia where the wages are even lower. This author has no sense of proportion or perspective. Meanwhile, Japan is all over Mexico setting up tech businesses and providing jobs for those with a little education.
That is ridiculous. How can you be so blind? We are all being victimized!
Can’t you understand that these exported jobs were once our middle class jobs that paid a living wage? Look what has happened to our middle class manufacturing jobs for heavens sake!
Do you actually believe that exporting those jobs to foreign workers who are paid starvation wages benefits the U.S. or Mexico?
If the cost of living in Mexico were as cheap as you allude then they wouldn’t be racing over here.
Sorry, but you don’t know what you are talking about!