The Immigration Policy Center makes the case that the process of North American economic integration, and development within Mexico itself, create structural conditions that encourage Mexican migration to the United States. However, multilateral agreements such as the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) do not adequately deal with the issue of labor migration. Real security and prosperity for all three NAFTA partners requires incorporating an agreement on labor migration into the project of North American economic integration.
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