A Devastating Truth

                                     When Will It End??

It is true that with each passing year more and more immigrants seek for a second chance here in the land of milk and honey. 

Their treacherous journey to arrive in the safe haven of America is often overlooked by the circumstances that it takes to place foot on this promised land. But the brutality faced in the desert, the cold frightful nights, and the endless stomach growling's are merely the beginning of this bittersweet dream.

There is no question about the horrors that are experienced while trying to cross the Unite States border. However, that difficult journey they have embarked on to reach a safe haven is only the beginning. The underlying sentiment that many immigrants crossing the border are here to take someone else's wages and jobs is undeniable.

 But where does the problem begin? And more so, why are there more and more people trying to come into the U.S. risking their lives and willing to leave there homes,  family, and friends. Clearly, one does not wake up one day and leave their native land just because they feel like it, usually there is  an unhappiness, a struggle, or a hardship going on. 

Nearly a decade later, The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passed on January 1 1994 links 450 million people that produced $17 trillion dollars in output. NAFTA promised not only to aid U.S Citizens but also those abroad. To be precise, according to citizens.org it promised it "would create tens of thousands of good jobs here in the U.S. and that  farmers would export their way to wealth. In addition, "NAFTA would bring Mexico’s standard of living up, providing new economic opportunities there that would reduce immigration to the United States".

So who could lose? Well with over a $181 billion dollar deficit as of 2012,the elimination of five million manufacturing jobs, a 20 percent decrease in salaries,  the closure of  60,000 manufacturing facilities, inefficiency of properly check food supply, NAFTA had left many Americans without hope. 

Yet an even bigger impact was felt by  the Mexican population. Starting with the dislocation of many Mexicans in the countryside, a 66 percent decrease in wages for Mexican farm workers causing the inability to pay for their lands. Leaving half of the Mexican population earning less than the minimum wage needed for basic food necessities. Over 700,000 people with out  jobs, Mexico's economy is slowly dissolving. 
Little change has been seen in this past decade except trillions of dollars made, unemployment rate on the rise, migration into the United States inevitable.