NAFTA and immigration: a quicky

I started out to write from a sort of away from the planet perspective about the global trends affecting migration and became completely absorbed in the subject so it'll be a little longer. I'm ALMOST ready to give a bit of historic perspective on the subject which I found eye-opening.

So....blowing off steam about NAFTA briefly
obvious concerns:latest round of NAFTA breaks gives the US considerably more room to dump large quantites of maiz, sugar, milk and rice here in Mexico -- to sell at such low rates that Mexicans on their small farms cannot possibly compete. So this leads of course to emigration.

BUT FURTHERMORE, US crops, produced by agribusiness, agri-industries, etc. are heavily subsidized. Mexico can't possibly subsidize equivalently.

Consequences besides migration:
Food grown in an environmentally destructive manner, with arguably less nutritional value, sometimes using genetic engineering, is dumped here to provide less nutritrion to Mexicans. It's kind of the Wal-Mart syndrome: you do people out of a living by closing down their shops so they have to work in your store part-time for low wages and until recently no health insuranceand then they can't afford to buy stuff anywhere else.

More later