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The effort in restricting illegal migration from Mexico to U.S.A. and Canada has been one major gain for the United States through NAFTA. Comment. (200 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 15 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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NAFTA was sold partly as migration policy. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari argued that Mexico wished to export goods rather than people, and trade theory from Robert Mundell (1957) onward treats trade and factor movement as substitutes: if goods made by Mexican labour can enter the US freely, Mexican workers need not. The statement claims…

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