NAFTA and the Border Crisis
What does the UN NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) have to do with the crisis on the border today? The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, was the door through which American workers were shoved into the neoliberal global labor market according to Jeff Faux. By establishing the principle that U.S. corporations could relocate production elsewhere and sell their products back into the United States, NAFTA undercut the bargaining power of American workers, which had driven the expansion … Continue reading →