American entrepreneur Donald Trump has landed in Mexico in a high-profile visit to the country whose relatively low-wage workers make clothing products that he is able to cheaply import into the United States thanks to the NAFTA free trade agreement.
Trump began his business career as a real estate developer, but his efforts in that field have been marred by a number of bankruptcies. He has found more success as a TV personality who sells personally branded lifestyle products that are manufactured inexpensively in countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Mexico. He also operates several businesses in the United States that rely on cheap immigrant labor.
He is visiting Mexico in connection with a political campaign premised on the idea that foreign manufacturing, free trade agreements, and immigrant labor are causing the destruction of the United States.
