Illegal Immigrants and CAFTA
How will the recent vote to proceed with CAFTA affect the illegal immigrant situation in America? To better understand these issues, let us first look at them as separate entities and later knit them.
Illegal immigrants come to America mostly from Central America, Mexico is the single largest contributor. They are almost all the time employed by Americans, most of who are not from Central America. Illegal immigrants are encouraged by lack of immigration measures from both sides of the border. Illegal immigrants are here because legal Americans employ them, if American’s stop employing non-legal workers, there would be no influx from south of the border.
CAFTA essentially lowers the cost of doing business with countries in Central America. CAFTA is sold to the Hispanic communities in America as a step forward in free trade across the border, and to others as an alternative measure to reduce illegal immigration, by creating value added jobs in their respective countries, which might encourage potential immigrants to stay back. Some might even call it a bone for CAFTA countries participating in the war on terrorism.
Now for the reality check, trade has never stopped illegal immigration, NAFTA, which is the precursor to CAFTA did not keep the Mexicans from migrating to America. Trade and terrorism are not related in any means or form, if trade with a certain country helps create a sense of camaraderie, then we would not have Arabic pilots flying plans into our buildings, we have a multi-billion dollar trade with them, oil. CAFTA surely does one thing, reduce the cost of already cheap merchandize and encourage industries in Central America to produce more crap for less.
For more info. Visit http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index_e.aspx
and http://ita.doc.gov/cafta/
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