Pollution at Border
Re “Borderline Efforts on Pollution,” June 30: Since NAFTA started, the work force in the low-wage maquiladora manufacturing belt in northern Mexico has expanded by 50%. That directly contradicts the promise that NAFTA would disperse, not further concentrate, the unregulated and highly polluting border industry.
The border is already one of the most polluted regions on the globe. Good trade agreements need tough rules to protect the environment and public health. Unless NAFTA is fixed, NAFTA’s environmental crisis will worsen along the border and far beyond.
RON LIPSHULTZ
North Hollywood
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