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... Scott says NAFTA has eliminated some 766,000 job opportunities in the U.S. alone, and the U.S. Labor Department reports that only 90,000 U.S. workers from them are qualified for a retraining program for workers displaced by NAFTA. As Rose Perot wrote in his book SAVE YOUR JOB, SAVE OUR COUNTRY, "NAFTA will pit American and Mexican workers in a race to the bottom. In this race, millions of Americans will lose their jobs". Environmentalists claim that air and water pollution has increased significantly along the Mexico/U.S. border after NAFTA started being carried out. It is said that thin shacks have sprung up in the area, inhabited by the poor who migrated to the region from other parts of Mexico, desperate for jobs in the Maquiladoras. Although there are so many critics over NAFTA, I still insist that we should say YES to NAFTA. There is an old saying in China ...
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