Originally Posted by Ardy
The policies that you mention as damaging Mexico have been implemented by Mexico itself. If those policies did cause a flood of emigrants, it is not primarily a matter of US foreign policy.

First of all, The problem with this statement is that it makes it sound as if these agreements are democratic and allow public input.

Secondly, the "corporate elite" who engineer these free trade agreements in secret do not represent the Mexican people or the American people. They represent the same corporate interests.

Neoliberal policies which allow first world corporations to flood third world economies with cheap, subsidized products such as foodstuffs that drive local producers out of production are another reason for the desperate poverty in the third world. Because of the ‘race to the bottom’ brought about by the transition to neoliberalism in the world economy which allows corporations to move effortlessly from one country to another in search of lower and lower wages, forcing third world countries to lift laws offering any protection to labor or the environment in an attempt to entice employers, wages in many countries do not meet subsistence levels for the laborer.

So when you say that Mexico implemented these agreements, you are advocating a very incomplete analysis at best, and a dishonest analysis at worst.