A view of how our policies may have affected the influx of illegal's from Mexico. An economic view. he paperâs underlying hypothesis is that American corn subsidies, which led to the flooding of Mexican markets with American corn following the signing of NAFTA, is the primary factor responsible for the post-1994 internal displacement of rural farmers in Mexico. The trade agreement effectively eliminated all trade barriers and placed Mexicoâs domestically produced corn in direct competition with highly subsidized corn imported from the United States. Consequently, Mexican corn farmers, who comprise the majority of the countryâs agricultural sector, experienced drastic declines in the domestic price of their product and thus faced increasing difficulties to attain a sustainable living. Hence, we observe high levels of migration into Mexicoâs cities in the latter half of the 1990âs, and the beginning of the 21st century, as these displaced farmers abandoned their previous livelihood in search of employment. The rest of the article. http://prospectjournal.ucsd.edu/ind...ing-the-displacement-of-mexicos-corn-farmers/