Mexico entered serious industrialization 30 years ago with NAFTA, causing its birth rate to halve as people moved to urban industrial jobs, eliminating the source of Mexican migration to the US, and the Central American wave currently being experienced will end in a few more years when similar development occurs there.

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Peter Zeihan

Evidence Quote

Mexico started industrializing... 30 years ago... NAFTA... birth rate halved... no longer a volume of Mexicans to come north... Central American wave... has a few more years to run before that is gone

Source

Peter Zeihan: Mapping the Collapse of GlobalizationCommonwealth Club World Affairs of California
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:34:46 PM

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