> Mexico is not South America You're right of course, the N in NAFTA, what was I thinking. I mean to say South of the border I think. > basically linear incr

> Mexico is not South America You're right of course, the N in NAFTA, what was I thinking. I mean to say South of the border I think. > basically linear increase in Mexicans coming to the US started before NAFTA. One of the goals of NAFTA was to decrease it. With the idea that skilled jobs would be provided locally. But that didn't happen. I found this study http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1870355016300052 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1870355016... looking at 20 years after NAFTA. 10 years ago in 2007 there was this article which I had saved in my bookmarks: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/weekinreview/18uchitelle.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/weekinreview/18uchitelle.h... it also talks about the effects on jobs in Mexico and how many of the promises didn't materialize. So I think Chomsky was pretty good at predicting what would happen.