Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
Actually, if fighting illegal immigration is important to you, CAFTA isn't a winner for us. CAFTA has increased illegal immigration into the United States. Our small surplus (we've had deficit years too) in trade under the Central America Free Trade Agreement does not cancel out its negatives.

CAFTA is an overall loser for us.
It's a very small trade agreement but it's good for American Workers, it's good for our businesses and manufacturers, too. Yes, out of the 14 years of CAFTA, there were 3 years that ran small deficits, the first year 2005 under Bush, then 2012 and 2013 under Obama. Under Trump, our sales to CAFTA-DR have soared!!

So, there's no reason to waste resources on CAFTA trade deal at this point, because it benefits the US as things stand now. When Trump gets the things he needs from Congress to fix the illegal immigration problem, that will also fix the illegal migration from Central America.

But if you want to oppose it that's fine. I opposed it at the beginning, but it's worked out for the US after all, so it was a better constructed deal than NAFTA and actually benefits the US which is why Trump never talks about it. GW and Congress had apparently learned from the many mistakes of NAFTA.