It is Mexico's leading growth industry. We've also seen Mexico's chief export of illegal drugs overwhelm our border agents like an avalanche, with Mexico taking its place as the leading exporter of heroin and cocaine to the United States. And we've seen the utter failure of the agricultural inspection system along the border. An unprecedented threat to the safety of our food supply. Please do not parrot the delusion of U.S. exports to Mexico.
Trade agreements have a human face.
The faces of families in Texas and California who are threatened on the highways by unsafe trucks that are streaming across our borders from Mexico, that are completely overwhelming our inspection system at all border checkpoints and that are sometimes carrying contraband, including illegal drugs. Finally, we should look at the faces of thousands of workers whose bosses threaten to move to Mexico unless they accept lower wages and benefits. That figure comes from a study that will be formally released next week by the Economic Policy Institute. But that number grossly understates the dimension of the job problem. More than 1,000 Guess workers in southern California lost their jobs in the fall of 1996 alone.