The Fourth Member of Nafta
The U.S.-Mexico Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9747728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy C Brown (0000-0003-3990-291X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 550 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-121 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716297550001009 |
| OpenAlex | W2101165010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 1 |
The North American Free Trade Agreement has a fourth member, the U.S.-Mexico border, with 22 million inhabitants, $300 billion in gross domestic product, $100 billion in trade, and a unique history and culture. In 1995, it witnessed some 225 million legal frontier crossings each way, mostly Mexican shoppers, who spent $22 billion in the United States, paid $ 1.7 billion in taxes, and generated 400,000 jobs but received no services. Balanced against the costs of Mexican illegals, American taxpayers made a 600 percent profit. This made Mexico the United States' second- (not third-) largest trading partner. Paso del Norte (Juárez-El Paso) is the border's capital, a binational metropolis of 2 million. Problems abound, from water, immigration, and drug trafficking to public safety, health, welfare, the environment, and infrastructure. But they are not being effectively addressed because they run east-west (from San Diego to Corpus Christi), while government authority and interests run north-south, to and from Washington, Mexico City, and nine state capitals. A binational bankable Border Authority is urgently needed
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Free trade · Free trade agreement · Frontier · Geography · Government (linguistics · Immigration · International trade · Political science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Gender, Violence, Rights in Latin America · International Relations in Latin America · Law
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Delivering Subjects
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2015 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |