Re:California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when facto...
by Spooky23 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @11:29AM
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It's a complex issue.
NAFTA fucked rural Mexico as a tidal wave of cheap corn flooded the economy and killed the smaller scale agriculture, just as it did in the US. You also have periods where economic crisis and monetary devaluation in Mexico wipes out a lot of middle class type people. A lot of laborers and construction guys came because of this.
You also have an insurgency in many parts of Mexico where the cartels have taken over and often little functional government exists. People there bug out if they can.
Many of the "peasant" immigrants are from Central America and pass through Mexico.
As far as economic impact, it's a complicated issue there too. The big land interests in Western States generally control the senate delegations pretty tightly. A lot of people are making a lot of money off of illegals, so if there were some major change, you'd see some sort of guest worker visa or change to labor laws (especially minimum wage, workers compensation and overtime) to keep the farms picked and slaughterhouses running.
NAFTA fucked rural Mexico as a tidal wave of cheap corn flooded the economy and killed the smaller scale agriculture, just as it did in the US. You also have periods where economic crisis and monetary devaluation in Mexico wipes out a lot of middle class type people. A lot of laborers and construction guys came because of this.
You also have an insurgency in many parts of Mexico where the cartels have taken over and often little functional government exists. People there bug out if they can.
Many of the "peasant" immigrants are from Central America and pass through Mexico.
As far as economic impact, it's a complicated issue there too. The big land interests in Western States generally control the senate delegations pretty tightly. A lot of people are making a lot of money off of illegals, so if there were some major change, you'd see some sort of guest worker visa or change to labor laws (especially minimum wage, workers compensation and overtime) to keep the farms picked and slaughterhouses running.