Mass Mexican immigration made Mexico’s redefinition acceptable where Turkish immigration blocked Turkey’s.

Evidence

The crucial intercivilizational issue of immigration highlights this difference. The fear of massive Turkish immigration generated resistance from both European elites and publics to bringing Turkey into Europe. In contrast, the fact of massive Mexican immigration, legal and illegal, into the United States was part of Salinas’s argument for NAFTA: “Either you accept our goods or you accept our people.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 409

Categorization

• CANDY: Salinas’s line ‘Either you accept our goods or you accept our people’ is a compact, quotable summary of the migration-trade tradeoff that works in any conversation about borders.
• QUESTION: This frames immigration-as-release-valve; worth tracing how the goods-vs-people tradeoff has played out since NAFTA.