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Agriculture and immigration.(Free Trade Agreement effecting farmers)

The New American

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For thousands of years corn has been grown as a staple crop in southern Mexico. Until the mid-1990s, small Mexican farmers tended the land, following the traditions of their ancestors, protected by trade barriers from competition from America's heavily subsidized and more efficient corn growers. NAFTA changed all that. In just over a decade, wrote St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Lambrecht in 2005, "An estimated 1 million farmers in rural Mexico have lost their livelihoods?'

Fanning jobs lost in Mexico have had a direct effect on the United States in the form of both immigration and drugs. "The idea was that bringing greater growth to Mexico, fewer Mexicans ...

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