WHY ARE SO MANY IMMIGRANTS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES?
*Working people in Mexico and other poor countries have been devastated by the practices of U.S.-based and other international corporations. Free trade pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are imposed with conditions that prevent poor countries from meeting their peoples needs. *After NAFTA came into force, followed by the harshly conditioned 1995 loan package to Mexico, more than 1.3 million Mexican farmers were driven out of business, as U.S. agribusiness, subsidized by our tax dollars, sold corn in Mexico at lower prices than farmers there could produce. Undocumented Mexican immigration to the US rose 60%. *Big corporations in the United States have been glad to take advantage of the cheap labor, and have sent labor recruiters into economically depressed areas of Mexico, Central America and elsewhere.
