Reply #32: Start with the maquiladoras (even though it goes back far longer).

[TahitiNut]

Over one million Mexicans work in about 3,000 maquiladora plants along Mexico's northern border. Global corporations opened factories along the US-Mexican border in the 1960s and attracted workers from all over Mexico. Low pay (better than nothing or much of Mexico) and no benefits. Over the years, many companies relocated operations to Asia, leaving many thousands unemployed. The maquiladoras have, by hire/fire expansion and contraction created a large number of unemployed in border towns (and shantytowns without water or electricity) where the cost of living is 25-40% higher than most of Mexico. More than 500 of these plants have closed since the Bushoilini regime took office.

Where do we think the workers went? :eyes: