American Jobs Are Headed to Mexico Once Again

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Twitter blasts can’t reverse the pull of global competition
‘It still makes sense to go forward with their business plans’

After Donald Trump’s election, the flow of manufacturers setting up shop south of the border dwindled to a trickle. Ford Motor Co. and Carrier Corp., caught in Trump’s Twitter crosshairs, scrapped plans to move jobs to Mexico in two very public examples of the slowdown.

But now the pace is picking back up. Illinois Tool Works Inc. will close an auto-parts plant in Mazon, Illinois, this month and head to Ciudad Juarez. Triumph Group Inc. is reducing the Spokane, Washington, workforce that makes fiber-composite parts for Boeing Co. aircraft and moving production to Zacatecas and Baja California. TE Connectivity Ltd. is shuttering a pressure-sensor plant in Pennsauken, New Jersey, in favor of a facility in Hermosillo.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-31/jobs-departing-u-s-for-mexico-again-as-trump-s-threats-ignored

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1. the falling peso, thanks largely to donnie's trade threats, makes mexican labor cheaper.

he's literally talking employers into shipping jobs to mexico.

[Xipe Totec]

2. If you don't let labor go to where the jobs are, the jobs will go where labor is. nt