Mexican workers are far less productive on average than ours.
But it is the Mexican worker who has in effect paid the price for the pact's strategy.
But that will be of little help to Mexican workers.
The reason given is typical: equally skilled Mexican workers will do the same work for a lot less pay.
Many of the Mexican workers would cross the border to do their daily shopping.
Some 400,000 Mexican workers have been laid off this year.
But now, he said, the contributions of Mexican workers could be more important than ever.
However, he became increasingly involved in causes such as the problems of local Mexican migrant workers.
The buying power of the average Mexican worker today is less than it was in 1980.
He stood sweating in a tomato field beside Mexican workers.