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EVIDENCES

EVIDENCES . Employment levels. Unemployment benefit in California ends after 6 months and people have to depend on basic food and clothing welfare handouts .

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EVIDENCES

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  1. EVIDENCES

  2. Employmentlevels • Unemploymentbenefit in Californiaendsafter 6 months and people have to depend on basic food and clothingwelfarehandouts. • As the city grew taxes wereraised to pay for a new freeway system, for a new water supplies,schools,policing and hospitals. • Electronic and clothing industries are labour intensive and need labour for assembly and machining.Wages for the same job canbe five or more times higher in the USA than in Mexico.

  3. Incomelevels • Toni Borini has been offered a payrise to work in a branchfactory in Tijuana, Mexico. Mexico is a LEDC, where taxes, land, labour and othermanufacturingcosts are muchlowerthan in the USA. The value of the American Peso(currency) recentlydroppedmaking all fanufacturingcostsverymuchcheaper in Mexico.Thecost of living ishight in thr USA, forcing Eduardo Sierra and Julio Gomez to work long hours to make a living.

  4. Industrial change • Toni Borini has been offered a payrise to work in a branchfactory in Tijuana, Mexico. • As the city grew taxes wereraised to pay for a new freeway system, for a new water supplies,schools,policing and hospitals. • San Diego grewrapidly in the 1970s as new industries locatedhere to takeadvantage of low taxes and cheap land and labour. In recentyears, manyfactories have movedtheirfactoriesacross the border into Mexico. Derelict factories are becoming a commonsight in San Diego.

  5. Migration • Immigrants willwork for lesspaythanAmericans. Ilegal immigrants from Mexico(wetbacks), swimmacross the Rio Grande. It is a commonway to try to getinto the USA. Night and day, border patrols catch and return illegal immigrants. Eduardo Sierra is an Illegal immigrant whoworks for a number of diffemployerswithout an official contract. About half of the city’sMexicans have permits to worklegally. Immigrants willpay for help in crossing the border, avoidingdetection and getting jobs.

  6. Quality of life • San Diego has modern schools and hospitals. • As the city grew taxes wereraised to pay for a new freeway system, for a new water supplies,schools,policing and hospitals. Electronic and clothing industries are labour intensive and need labour for assembly and machining. Mexico has a rapidlygrowing population. Manycan’tafford basic needssuch as electricity,freshwater,education and medical care.

  7. General infos(usefull) • Toni Borini has been offered a payrise to work in a branchfactory in Tijuana, Mexico. Electronic and clothing industries are labour intensive and need labour for assembly and machining. • Techno-cal, the largestelectronicscompany in the city, has recentlysigned a contract to buy computer parts fromTaipeitron of Taiwan. Techno cal recentlyannouncedthatitwould close it’s San Diego Factory.

  8. General infos(not usefull) • As the city grew taxes wereraised to pay for a new freeway system, for a new water supplies,schools,policing and hospitals. Northern Mexico and SouthernCalifornia are areas of desert. Electronics and clothingcanbeimportedcheaplyfromSouth-EastAsia.

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