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capsaicinintheeyes t1_jdi0yp7 wrote

I thought I remembered a bunch of sound and fury followed by the passing of a bill that was 99% pre-Trump NAFTA...but that's not to say there was nothing new in there that may have helped our trade I vaguely remember for the Mexican side something about insisting on minimum wages being higher for manufacturing cars that would be sold in the US, so either Mexican workers get a raise, US workers become more competitive, or both...which all seems win-win-win to me.

How does the data on OP's graph compare to the years before Trump's revisions passed, tho? I wouldn't know where to begin

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Temporary-Alarm-744 t1_jdhzovx wrote

He's not wrong. In 2019 there was a mass shootings targeting Mexicans in El Paso after abbot sent off campaign emails talking about Mexicans are invading. His response was the equivalent of"and? Get back to work you fucking Mexicans". I wouldn't call the relationship partners. More like nation state indentured servitude. Hell if Abbot ever became president I wouldn't be surprised if he coup'd Mexico just for the lulz

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