CONSEQUENCES

Unintended consequences; they jump up and bite you all the time.

President Clinton signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) into law in 1994.  Basically, it is an agreement with Mexico and Canada that each could sell their goods in the other's country unencumbered by tariffs. 

Here is one scenario that occurred.  The number one food staple in Mexico is corn.  They use it to make tacos and the like.  Tacos are the equivalent of our bread.  Many Mexicans have small family farms on which they grow corn.  After NAFTA, American mega-farms which produce corn and which are subsidized by our government began selling corn very cheaply in Mexico and drove the price way down.  Tacos became cheaper but thousands of small Mexican farmers could no longer survive growing corn.  Many of those farmers chose to leave their families and enter the US illegally to work on our farms so they could send money back to their families.  Try to figure out who gained and who lost in this scenario. 
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