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Donald Trump has already forced Mexico to clean up its national image, underscoring how the country suffering from NAFTA could actually benefit from a Trump presidency.
Mexico is launching a massive PR campaign to improve perceptions of the country after Trump exposed many of its problems, but this is a good thing: sometimes it takes your worst critic to enforce needed change.
In fact, Trump’s proposed border wall, hatred of the North American Free Trade Agreement and nationalistic views could help America’s southern neighbor.
For one thing, a lot of people don’t realize NAFTA has fueled mass unemployment in Mexico, which has caused thousands of illegal immigrants to flood into the U.S. looking for jobs.
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And if Trump increases border security between the U.S. and Mexico, that would also force Mexico to curtail its own corruption and drug violence instead of exporting its problems to the U.S.
In contrast, President Obama’s current open borders policy encourages not only unsafe migration but also human trafficking in the U.S. – and right now there’s more people enslaved now than at any time in human history. ...
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