Trump tried to remove protections that were offered under DACA and was blocked by a judge. NAFTA is being renegotiated. Last I heard was that the USA and Mexico were in talks and Trudeau was mad because the USA was not talking to Canada. It appears the USA is going to go for two separate agreements rather than a tri country agreement.

 

Looks like Trump believes he has a separate deal with Mexico, should be interesting to see the details. Curious who he negociated with since the government is changing hands. https://nbcnews.trib.al/DRoijHm

 

Trump secured pay of auto workers in Mexico at a minimum of $16.00 per hour, CNN probably breezed past that, not that it helps as the Asian auto makers bring in their own people to do the work. DACA was a joke to begin with, an overreach of presidential powers which he was not authorized to do, presidents don't write immigration law, and the action was "deferred" or put off, not ended. As usual he made a mess of everything that he touched and left someone else the problem.

 

Here's your NAFTA..

Misery in the Maquiladoras | Harvard International Review

 

Great article, Zorro, and thanks for sharing it. Did you read it? The case in point was a worker in the LG maquiladora in Juárez whose hands had to be amputated after being crushed in a machine. She was offered $3,800 USD in compensation.
If you're advocating stronger worker protection and organized labor unions, you're at odds with the Trump administration which is busy gutting OSHA and packing the SC with anti-labor folks. Their idea of making America more competitive is rolling back worksite regulation and worker safety to those examined in The Jungle. Perhaps you should read that too.

 

For the umpteenth time. I didn't vote for Trump, I supported Cruz but I knew he would win. NAFTA does not help Mexican workers it exploits them.

 

Whatever he is doing the economy is booming. It helps when you roll back regulations that are strangling the workforce. The economy is so good Obama is trying to take credit for it which is hilarious.

 

I presume you haven't followed the GNP since 2014 when the Obama administration saved the economy. Trump's administration is simply riding on Obama's coat tails fraudulently omitting facts and lying about it. Disinformation at it's finest. Here you are disinforming us. 😁 :tongue:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/economy/chart-book-the-legacy-of-the-great-recession

 

Somehow, it's only about how well business is doing with one iota of concern regarding damage to the environment resulting from rolling back regulations that were designed to protect it.

The bill on that WILL come due and our descendants will be paying it in terms of sick people, deformed babies and many, many more negative outcomes. It that's what people want; immediate gratification with no concern for their offspring's future....they are guilty of simple, selfish greed.

 

" I know good will win."

I would like to think so, but in many countries that wound up under a dictatorship, evil won.

I wasn't a fan of Hillary, but if the Dems had won, we wouldn't have two new SCOTUS judges of the far right persuasion; we wouldn't have given that tax break to the already rich and put the country further in debt. The environmental regs. wouldn't have been gutted and so on. The economy wasn't "saved" by Trump: it was moving along at normal rate.

Let's say that Hillary was not a paragon of political virtue, but if she were occupying the POTUS position, we wouldn't have the disaster we have today. However, we have a system from a long ago time that ignored the will of at least 3 million citizens, so we got Trump and all the baggage he brought with him. Until that system is changed, this kind of thing will continue, but when will we have a Congress willing to tackle that one?

I'd like to be more optimistic, but things don't look promising. We know what happens to protestors under a dictatorship.