Illegal Immigration has been the most heated debate in the United States during the last decade. An anti-Immigrant sentiment has been spreading throughout the United States in a country that was once built on immigrants.
What a lot of people do not know is that illegal immigration is such a big problem because the United States made it this big of a problem in Latin America. Before 1994 (the year NAFTA was passed) there was only 3.9 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Today there are over 12 million undocumented workers here in the United States, a tremendous increase of 300 percent. More than half of those illegal immigrants are from our neighbor south of the border: Mexico.
But Illegal immigration comes from every single corner of Latin America. Immigrants come from every single corner of Latin America, looking for the promises that were made to them when all their home companies were privatized in the name of progress. People in Latin were promised a better life now that all electricity, water, and meat companies were privatized, but the result became quite the opposite. Many of those things became an unaffordable luxury for people in Latin America. Creating a huge amount of unemployment because now Mexican butchers that had their own small business could not compete with the cheap prices created by the cheap pork being imported from the United States
The United States took the time to set up puppet democracies in Latin America to benefit them, not the people of the country. Those puppet democracies made the people believe that Nationalizing companies was a bad thing because it limited the competition in the country making it less efficient for the people of their country. The people who now owned all the land and companies knew nothing about their culture and did not care about the people what so ever, they only had one thing in their mind which was making money at any cost. This ended up creating inflation problems in countries all over Latin America. Wages kept going down, but the standard of living and unemployment were skyrocketing until the only solution became migrating to the United States.
Aside from the economic factors, many Latinos are here to escape the fake democracies that were set up throughout Latin America, they are here to escape those presidents that allow American imperialism in their home countries, and they are here to escape countries that have all the resources to feed their people dying of hunger but don’t do anything to help them, which is the result of privatizing all of their companies, meaning they export the majority of their goods only to buy them back at a ridiculous price, creating inflation.
This was the main effect that NAFTA had in Mexico. It displaced many workers that had a steady job in home companies into unemployment, forcing them to look elsewhere for jobs. Some were granted to come and work in the United States, thanks to NAFTA, by being granted a work visa. They were only being used as cheap labor and justified slavery.
Mexican Farmers were forced to leave their land, thanks to American companies that flooded the Mexican economy with cheap corn, causing the price to drop 70 percent. Corn producing was Mexico’s main product, but in the last decade over one million farmers have lost their jobs thanks to cheap corn. Another 142,00 cultivating jobs have also disappeared.
It is all not the United States's fault, but they are the main antagonist of this story. Countries like Mexico have a lot to do with all of this with their corrupt governments, but at the end of the day, the only reason that corrupt government is there is because the United States placed them there
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