Trade with Mexico:  From 1999 to 2005, U.S. farm and food exports to Mexico climbed by $3.7 billion to $9.4 billion -- the highest level ever and the fourth record in 5 years under NAFTA.  U.S. exports of soybean meal, red meats, dairy products, and poultry meat all set new records in 2005.

In the years immediately prior to NAFTA, U.S. agricultural products lost market share in Mexico as competition for the Mexican market increased.  NAFTA reversed this trend.  The United States supplied more than 71 percent of Mexico's total agricultural imports in 2005, due in part to the price advantage and preferential access that U.S. products now enjoy.  For example, Mexico's imports of U.S. red meat and poultry have grown rapidly, exceeding pre-NAFTA levels and reaching the highest level ever in 2005.

NAFTA kept Mexican markets open to U.S. farm and food products in 1995 during the worst economic crisis in Mexico's modern history.  In the wake of the peso devaluation and its aftermath, U.S. agricultural exports dropped by 23 percent that year, but have since surged back setting new annual records.  NAFTA cushioned the downturn and helped speed the recovery because of preferential access for U.S. products.  In fact, rather than raising import barriers in response to its economic problems, Mexico adhered to NAFTA commitments and continued to reduce tariffs.

Jan. 1, 2005, marked the 12th round of tariff cuts under NAFTA, further opening the market to U.S. products.  U.S. commodities now eligible for duty-free access under Mexico's NAFTA TRQ's include corn, dried beans, poultry, animal fats, barley, eggs, and potatoes.  All tariffs are to be eliminated by 2008.
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My point is that these figures document a systematic destruction of a whole economy, a whole society, which will continue to have repurcussions for the foreseeable future. The silly drivers licence controversy is the least of it.