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To: 1rudeboy
Every single person who posts that we're losing our high-paying jobs to Mexico. Don't even start down that road.

What are you talking about? High paying, liveable textile and electronic jobs in the US are moving to Mexico where they can pay the workers barely anything. That's why illegals continue to pour in in the US. This is undeniable fact of life since NAFTA was enacted.

66 posted on 12/28/2002 11:34:29 AM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
European Union countries or Anerica Union countries ?
68 posted on 12/28/2002 11:46:09 AM PST by FreeSpeechZone
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Don't lose sight of my point. In order to claim that high-paying jobs are being lost to Mexico, one must acknowledge that higher-paying jobs are being created in Mexico.

No one can argue with a straight face that a Mexican working a Ford assembly-line south of our border is making the same amount of money that he would polishing hubcaps in Mexico City. In other words, a higher-paying job (in respect to the local wage-rate) has been created.

My point is that one cannot argue that we are losing these high-paying jobs to Mexico because of NAFTA, and simultaneously claim that illegal immigration to the U.S. is increasing because NAFTA is reducing Mexican wages, or otherwise adversely affecting Mexican employment.

70 posted on 12/28/2002 11:52:47 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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