Trump and Mexico
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Came across this article which is quite useful in shedding light on what lies behind Trump’s attempts to militarise the border with Mexico and criminalise the migrants who cross over it
It is not just a case of Trump, ever the opportunist, posing as the friend of blue collar workers in America’s rustbelt and vowing to bring back “American jobs” that have long outsourced abroad; it is also a case of Trump working to promote the interests of American capitalists who have invested in the “Maquiladora belt” of assembly plants on the Mexico side of the border by ironically helping to create “Mexican jobs” instead . These plants which are vertically integrated into the process of producing finished consumer goods mainly for the American market depend upon low wages.
There are currently 50.000 vacancies in the Maquiladora belt and the migrant crisis which has witnessed thousands of migrants from all over Central America coming into Mexico is being used to meet the labour needs of these assembly plants as well as exert a depressing effect on wages
https://nacla.org/news/2019/10/03/maquiladores-exploitation-migrants-border
Maquiladoras has existed in Mexico since 1965 after the creation of the Braceros program when the USA corporation had scouts to look for workers in Mexico and the border was completely open to the Mexican workers, and then in 1968 the term illegal immigration was created before that the Mexicans were not considered illegal immigrants but deportable aliens.
Maquiladoras have existed in different parts of Latin America including Puerto Rico when there were industries in different parts of the Islands, and the US corporation had more than 25 years tax exemptions, and then others Maquiladoras were created in El Salvador, and Nicaragua and most works were performed by women, and most men were forced to emigrate to the USA
The first free zone was created on the island of Saint Thomas, Santa Cruz and the Dominican Republic and most jobs were transferred to China and Vietnam, the first ones in the Dominican Republic were installed by the Gulf and Western in 1969, and most workers were women getting low pay job
The so-called slogan of Making America Great Again and stopping illegal immigration it is all bullshits due to the fact that the new treaty signed with Mexico, they only changed the name of the treaty but it gives more opportunities to produce profits to the US corporation, and more jobs were created in Mexico with the new treaty and the USA government wants those news jobs to be filled by Mexican or peoples from Central America, that is the reason why they are being sent back
It is laughable when the USA government says that Mexico and other countries of Latin America are taking advantages from the USA, and many peoples believe that without double-checking the real history when in reality the US corporations are the ones taking advantages with the low pay job of most Latin American nations supported by puppet politicians
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1139&context=yhrdlj. However wants to understand the history of the immigration of the USA and all the tricks and manoeuvres made by the US ruling class, must read this book written by Aviva Chomsky who is the daughter of Noam Chomsky
Declaring the Mexicans drug traffickers as terrorists it is a bigger excuse to send more troops to the border and to send troops to Mexico
SOYMB has a post on Mexican unions and the emergence of the “20/32 Movement” https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/12/mexicos-2032-movement.html
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