Many of the respondents echoed a common theme: Fear of the looming threat of automation, and of losing jobs to China. I would have never been able to finish college if there weren’t those kinds of jobs in a maquiladora. _____‘We’re competing against everybody just like you’Raquel Gerardo, 22, grew up in Tijuana in a family that depended on the maquiladora industry for its livelihood. He rose through the ranks, becoming a technician, an engineer and finally a plant manager at an electronics factory in Tijuana. A dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, Mr. Naudin always felt drawn to the Mexican side of the border.

Source: New York Times December 27, 2017 06:56 UTC