NAFTA stands for the North Atlantic Fair Trade Agreement, otherwise known as the death warrant to Mexican farmers. It was an agreement that was supposed to Mexico's failing economy around. It was supposed to establish a plethora of jobs, enough jobs to lower the immigration rates from Mexico to the U.S. It has created competition between American farmers and Mexican farmers, especially in the corn production, which ultimately forced the Mexican farmer to result to newer ways of income. Approximately two million Mexicans have had to drop their farms and mainly risk their lives to crossing the border. Not only have the prices of corn increased traumatically and farmers have lossed their jobs, but major corporations, such as Wal-mart, have been allowed to come in and eradicate as much as twenty-eight million small and medium sized owned businesses due to NAFTA. And due to the high demand of jobs, wages have decreased significantly to an average of sixty cents to a dollar in major sweatshops. What else do I not know about NAFTA?
Source: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0425-30.htm
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What about other schools of thought? What side of the argument does NAFTA fall? Are there two primary sides? Make sure you describe the ethos of the argument.
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