Regarding: "Latin American and other immigrants come for many of the same reasons today."
- The influx of refugees / legal immigrants / transitional labour / undocumented permanent residences from Latin America is at least in some way the result of global economics, and the various international trade agreements.
- In as much as there is, more or less, a free flow of goods and resources it makes sense that the most valuable, the most numerous resource, labour, should also be free flowing.
- Sadly, when USA initiates or becomes part of a trade agreement / consortia it focuses only on things or the various bits that go into things without regarding labour.
- So as the flow of goods, a river actually that makes its own bed, ignores boundaries, so to should labour ignore boundaries.
- Trump with his singular approach to trade is trying to push the USA to the past ideal period when it saw itself as self-sufficient in inputs and outputs. Of course, as world trade shows this is a mirage.