Clinton knew it wouldn't work. He knew Salinas was bullshit at Davos, and he knew it was blackmail re immigration that would not work.
But here was what Clinton said at the time: NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.
Shortly after that, China took the trade and industry envisioned under NAFTA from Mexico.
The big difference: the Mexicans kept on pouring North immediately, while the southern freed negroes took about 75 years to finally invade the North, rendered obsolete by farm machinery, so that by about 1960 there was a huge sudden outcry in the North.
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