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Excerpt from Hearing Before the Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations House Representatives: One Hundred Third Congress First Session; October 28, 1993
Mexican immigration to the United States went up by 800 per cent during the late 1980's. Now, the price supports for basic grains, including com and beans, will be phased out over 2 years. These are Mexico's largest crops and form its basic food supply; 2 million farmers grow those crops, and almost every economist agrees that these producers cannot compete with cheaper u.s. Corn and beans. For example, corn is selling for per bushel in the United States; its price in Mexico is in excess of $6. I was surprised to learn, when I was down there, that a senator from my State had this idea, what he called decoupling, which was very unpopular and was rejected by the House and Senate and the agricultural community in the United States, but it has been adopted in Mexico. I am sure that former Senator Boschwitz is proud of the handiwork that he has accomplished in Mexico. The Salinas government has indicated that it wants to remove two-thirds of Mexico's rural residents, or 15 million people, from the land in their modernization process. There is really little or no help to make the transition. There are no special loan programs to help farmers who can survive to get the credit that they need to survive. With 30 percent interest rates and this situation, there is just no way that this works out for these people to be able to buy their lands and to get into business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
