A North American Union of Canada, Mexico, and the United States has been proposed by President Fox, with a complete opening of borders to the goods and peoples of the three countries. The idea enraptures the Wall Street Journal.14 But Mexico’s per capita GDP of five thousand dollars is only a fraction of America’s, and the income gap between us is the largest on earth between two large neighbor countries.15 Since NAFTA passed in 1993, real wages in Mexico have fallen 15 percent. Half of all Mexicans now live in poverty, and eighteen million subsist on less than two dollars a day, while the
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