Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There

In the last 15 years, Mexico's longstanding system of sustaining its huge population of poor citizens (including small self-sufficient farms, jobs in state-owned industries and subsidies for such essentials as tortillas) has been scuttled at the insistence of U.S. banks, corporations, government officials and "free market" ideologues. In the name of "modernizing" the Mexican economy, such giants as Citigroup, Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and GE -- in cahoots with ... Full Story »

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by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008

Insightful analysis of how NAFTA actually increases illegal immigration. A very thorough and refreshing critique of rightist received opinion on this matter.

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