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Politics : Immigration and its Reform -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (154)	5/6/2013 10:17:58 PM
From: DallasKevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 270

I'd also like to know why the CIA, under both Democratic and Republican Presidents, would want to destabilize Mexico. This one is the easiest question you have asked so far...and is the root of the whole tomato. Not sure if you will actually read this, or follow what I am saying here, but here goes. Even if you don't understand it, maybe others will.... Mexico has the 14th largest GDP in the world, and the 11th largest by purchasing power and has overall one of the world's largest economies and is considered to be a regional power as well. Does the United States stand to gain or loose by having a competitor on its border which has this economic power that is stable and can actively compete for jobs and money on the world market? Remember the labor rates are lower in Mexico and absent the current strife in the country, foreign companies would be more likely to invest money and factories there than in the United States, where high labor costs coupled with massive regulations hamper the ability to manufacture products. Case in point: See Suzuki USA and the reasons given for pulling their automotive division from US markets. Only the US markets...they still operate everywhere else in the world. Add to this the fact that Toluca, Mexico is their equivalent of our Detroit, except they actually produce more vehicle for more countries there than Detroit does. Toluca alone has Chrysler, Mercedes, BMW, and Nissan, Subaru, Ford, GM, and each company has many plants located there. Look up Toluca and the industrialized zone. This is just one city. And the investments were made during times of strife. Imagine if the country were stable how many more jobs would go over to Mexico? With all of this going for them, if the US actually honored NAFTA AND did not see that something destabilized the country, within a few decades Mexico would rival the US in manufacturing capacity, as well as GDP. They are on our border, and with no customs restrictions (NAFTA again) would become the place where everything used in the US would be manufactured, since it can be done cheaper there and shipped across the border much the same as shipping from Indiana to Ohio. All of this is also why Mexico has had the US in the world courts now for well over a decade. The US wants Mexico to honor the treaty obligations under NAFTA which benefit the US, while ignoring the obligations on the part of the US that benefit Mexico. cit.uscourts.gov mpepil.com; If the US were to honor these obligations, as well as promote harmony within Mexico instead of strife, Mexico would take millions of World Market jobs from the United States.