re: What can be done about the border crisis?

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I'd rather Hondurans and El Salvadorians do the lower level manufacturing that China is currently doing.

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I posed this question to an executive in supply chain management at a large US company that does most of its manufacturing in China. He was going on about shipping issues from China. I asked, why not move your manufacturing to Central America?

Central America doesn't have the technical expertise to build and maintain the capital infrastructure to support the required manufacturing level, but most importantly, those countries are all horribly corrupt.

You'd have to have some colonization situation and a couple of decades of massive investment to pull it off, and that's not happening as long as China exists. If you pumped billions into their economy for economic development, you'd just be making a small group of people wealthy with nothing to show for it.