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There are some basic solutions
that can be implemented by the United States
to help Mexico curb down on the exodus of their population.
We have found, or anthropologist have found,
that there's approximately two million people
from the countryside who have been displaced.
So, if we tax the money from NAFTA,
this could be used for rural development.
And this would curb undocumented migration,
because if you help the farmers remain in their land,
they can subsist on that,
and they don't have to come to the United States.
But of course, I would say, you just don't give these taxes to Mexico.
You use these taxes as an incentive so that Mexico develops
a realistic rural policy that will keep the farmers at home.
The second plan would be to, once again,
tax the American corporations that are doing business in Mexico,
the maquiladoras, and place that money in part of the funds
to either to develop the countryside or to delevop
local economies where these plants are making money.
The U.S. owns 90 percent of all of the foreign companies in Mexico,
and I believe that these companies also need to raise their wages.
And lastly, I believe that if the U.S. government forgave
the interest that it collects from Mexico on its loans
and uses this interest, once again, for development,
it will help Mexico keep some of the people in their country.
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