The automation argument is lame. The same robots on the GM assembly line in Detroit are being put on the assembly line in Mexico. The only reason the factory is in Mexico is because people down there make $2.50/h, while people in Detroit make $25/h.
Again, I don't have much sympathy for a country that is part of a free trade agreement with two of the most progressive and regulated economies in the world, but thinks they can get away with lax regulations and terrible wages.
Has Mexico even made an attempt to pay their workers better? How about a $5/h minimum wage law?
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