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The Town NAFTA Forgot
This article tells the story of a town, Nogales, split between Arizona and Mexico. The Mexican portion is flourishing while the Arizona town suffers. Both towns are defined by their location and their foreign half.
Tags: maquiladora; North American Free Trade Agreement; border
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Bordering on Exploitation
Factory workers on the U.S. Mexican border flock from all over Mexico for the chance to earn $1 an hour in American owned factories called maquiladoras. The post-NAFTA factory boom is giving many Mexicans the opportunity to earn more money and better wages, but by American standards, it looks like exploitation, especially the living conditions.
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Bordering on exploitation
New Times examines the maquiladora industry's explosive growth in the Arizona/Mexico border region. The stories found that as the peso continues to shed value, these low-wage American-owned, export-manufacturing plants have become a primary force behind the massive rural-to-urban migration of young Mexicans from the Sonoran and Sinaloan interior.