and increasing tariffs on imported goods. We might get to find out the truth.

a trade deal to motivate their quest for cheap labor.

be WW3 and we will lose.

solve our problems. But, NAFTA had nothing to do with corporate America's thirst for cheap labor.

Industrialized countries has an aging population, and cannot sustain on purely domestic consumption.
Robotics is the future in manufacturing and will replace repetitive manual labor, killing trade agreements will NOT get the jobs back and put food on the table.

Like the USCoC is frowned upon (and they might have a sizable dog in this fight), here's more balanced view of NAFTA

http://connectusfund.org/list-of-13-main-pros-and-cons-of-nafta

Consumers and manufactures alike want cheap, inexpensive products and goods. You cannot blame a trade agreement for creating social diversity that is historically, socially and culturally inherited.

That the current cultural stratification (and by that I include the degree of the same) in Latin America, particularly Mexico is unrelated to NAFTA?

Obviously cultural stratification in countries like Mexico is centuries old and grounded as much in racial discrimination as it is economic oppression. However, the exacerbation of this stratification after NAFTA is beyond question.

For example: In countries like Mexico, the maquiladoras, which were once inhabited by multiple thousands of people making (admittedly, just) enough to live on, were turned into places where the relatively few number of factory workers did indeed multiply their annual incomes many times OVER (and yet no where near American wages and without American health and safety protections), but EVERYONE ELSE in these towns faced a radically inflated cost of living that left them no longer able to survive living their traditional way of life (but yet not reaping the wage rewards which had inured to the factory workers). Accordingly when looking across the whole of Latin America, MILLIONS of people were no longer able to survive but only a few thousand had new manufacturing jobs. Not only did thousands die of starvation etc., thousands more died at the hands of corporately-controlled Latin American governments when they tried to rise up against starvation AND thousands more died as a consequence of the "replacement economies" (criminal enterprises, including drug trafficking) which provided the only alternative to starvation in communities where their indigenous economies had been destroyed. This phenomena was repeated on a smaller scale in the farming communities where the thousands upon thousands of subsistence farmers were unable to compete with global agri-business which, because of the latter's logistical superiority (i.e., ability to get goods to distant markets) and the economies of scale were able to offer greater reliability and lower prices. They lost everything . . . their land, their families, and after the brutal crackdowns by their governments, their lives.

Yes, this disparity of wealth and power has always existed, but the DEGREE of oppression following NAFTA is unrivaled since the days when Spanish enslaved the indigenous populations.

that Texas businessmen were secretly trying to negotiate the NAFTA deal because of the money that will be lost....but since the republikkan was running on it--they did it silently.