Illegal Immigration and NAFTA?

Question

Do we seriously need to reconsider our Trade Agreements to FIX the illegal immigration problems?
http://www.votehillary.org/CMS/node/1425

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/19/pf-4273694.html

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_51/b3863008.htm

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I'm not endorsing Hillary...Just pointing out how she now says it's a bad thing.It's used as an example is ALL.

If you read the links you will see they ARE NOT 2 separate things.They go hand in hand.

Answer 1

Yes

I am not a fan of Hilary but NAFTA should be boot kicked out of North America. Pick any reason you want, I am with you. The middle class in both countries would be better served without it.

Answer 2

About NAFTA, most economists agree that it lessened the severity of several unrelated economic downturns, and, overall, improved the economic conditions in Mexico. A recent Investor's Business Daily editorial said that, post-NAFTA, "Mexicans find they have legitimate, legal jobs to do in Mexico . . . with the average Mexican income now at $7,000 — the highest in Latin America — average workers can earn nearly as much there as here."

Answer 3

Since it was her husband that signed NAFTA and CAFTA, and since she supports a NAU I have serious doubts that she will do anything to "fix" NAFTA, or to stem the problem with illegals. We had the problem long before NAFTA and CAFTA, and it will be a continuing problem as there are no candidates willing to seriously take it on.

Answer 4

I seriously think those nations which are exporting their criminals, undesirables, destitute, indigent, needy and greedy into the USA illegally (like Mexico- the biggest offender), need to get the act together, stand on their own two feet, stop being begger nations, use their natural resources to create jobs, spread the wealth down from their ruling elite (like Mexico Slim who gives nothing to the people of Mexico, and does nothing for the people of Mexico), and need to instill a comprehensive national birth control agenda, to stop overproducing poor citizens which they have no intention of taking care of, all in the name of greed, as they encourage the citizens of their nations to enter the USA illegally (like Mexico has and does) in violation of US laws, in total disrespect for the sovereignty of the United States.

When is enough enough?
The USA is not Mexicos baby-daddy.

Cut off all remittances sent from the USA into Mexico, and tell Mexico to make it on their own steam or surrender.

Answer 5

Remember that NAFTA includes the country to the north, as well as the one to the south.

Deciding to pull out of NAFTA would immediately:
- drive up the price of petrochemical fuels (specifically natural gas and oil), since there would now be huge tariffs on the materials southbound from Canada.
- drive those prices up further, since there would be a significant charge for development of Alaska-Lower 48 pipelines ... if Canadians would allow them to cross their sovereign soil in the first place.
- drive up prices for other raw materials, including lumber, iron, coal, and other metals now mined in the Canadian shield.
- turn most of the Midwest into a dustbowl, as Canada stops the flow of water and the draining of the Great Lakes.
- in a few years, turn most of California into either a desert or the most forward-thinking location on the planet in terms of being "green" (again, because of the water issue).
- put some more slouch into the American economy as the Canadian dollar is allowed to drift downward and Canadian manufactured products become cheaper than American ones (instead of the other way around).
- make brownouts and blackouts a far more common occurrence, particularly in the northeast, when Canada decides to stop selling the extra power it's generating (approximately 30 percent of the electricity used in the northeast is generated in either Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick). Energy conservation, here we come! ... It would have the added benefit of allowing the Canadians to shut down more of their oil- and coal-fired plants, making them greener still in terms of emissions.
- with the shutdown of their oil and coal plants, Canadian would then come down hard on the US in terms of acid rain and its impact. (Can you see a nation-sized Superfund project, paid for by the US taxpayer?)

What the US is seeing now in terms of Mexican labor impact on the cost of doing business happened to Canada back when the only two NAFTA partners were US and Canada. The Canadians managed to climb out of it ... so can the US, without closing its borders. All it takes is ingenuity, stick-to-it-iveness, and a desire to be better.

Answer 6

They are two separate issues. Illegal immigration can be stopped, now, if we can get the President and Congress to do it. It seems to me that they don't want to stop illegal immigration.

Answer 7

YES We need a candidate to FIX these agreements of goodbye America as we know it.

Answer 8

NAFTA was a calculated step towards the NAU. It's coming....does anyone care?

Answer 9

Clinton is a waffling pinhead who will say anything to get elected.

Answer 10

Yes. However, I am not sure Clinton is the person to change it, since she seems to assiduously avoid saying exactly what she would change.