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- Subject: NAFTA COULD DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FARM WORKERS
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- "You're going to have vast out-migration from the Mexican
- countryside, but not enough to absorb all the workers," said Raoul
- Hinojosa-Ojeda," a UCLA urban planner.
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- 148 TRADE.NEWS 8-21-92 kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations
- 11:55 am Aug 21, 1992
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- TRADE NEWS BULLETIN
- Friday, August 21, 1992
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- NAFTA News Summary
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- NAFTA COULD DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FARM
- WORKERS
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- Supporters of NAFTA often argue the treaty would decrease
- Mexican immigration to the United States, but a group of experts
- said immigration will grow in the next few years. NAFTA,
- combined with Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's
- agricultural reforms, could put thousands of Mexican farm
- workers out of work, forcing them to look elsewhere for jobs and
- increase the pressure on border states. "You're going to have
- vast out-migration from the Mexican countryside, but not
- enough to absorb all the workers," said Raoul Hinojosa-Ojeda," a
- UCLA urban planner.
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- Salinas' reforms, which include abolishing the state monopoly on
- corn production and increasing agriculture imports from the U.S.,
- could displace Mexican farmers.
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- "If anything we'll see an upward spiral, not a downward one, in
- immigration over the next few years," said Roberto Martinez,
- director of the U.S.-Mexico border program for the American
- Friends Service Committee in San Diego.
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- Source: Michael Zielenziger, "Free-Trade Agreement Could Uproot
- Thousands of Mexican Farm Workers," JOURNAL OF COMMERCE,
- August 18, 1992, p. 5A.
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- Resources:
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- 1. U.S. apparel and textile workers have been vocal in their
- opposition to international free trade agreements. In its March
- 1992 issue of JUSTICE, the International Ladies' Garment
- Workers' Union argues that GATT and NAFTA will benefit
- corporations at the expense of workers. An article states that
- GATT's plan to end all apparel and textile quotas by the year
- 2002 would mean job losses totaling 1-1.4 million of the 1.8
- million apparel and textile jobs in the U.S. Ten issues of JUSTICE
- are produced a year. For a subscription, send $2 to JUSTICE,
- 1710 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, USA.
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- Produced by:
- Kai Mander
- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
- 1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303
- Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA
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- Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982
- E-Mail:kmander@igc.org
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