effect of exchange rates has had a major impact on immigration. Many other countries are pleading with America not to band them from migrating and exchanging goods. A recent article by The Dallas Morning News reported that “ Mexico’s president Vincente Fox is hoping he can use his friendship with Mr. Bush to persuade the United States not to abandon Mexico after having earlier applauded its democratic transition and economic policies. Already, talk of easing immigration rules has been put on a back burner as the United States has turned its attention to the war on terrorism and its own increasing economic problems. Layoffs, recession, budget cuts and tighter borders are hardly what Mr. Fox expected in the first year of his administration.” Immigration laws probably are not subject to change but the effects of war can put a limitation of the exchanging and sell of goods.. Dallas Morning News reports “ In Guadalajara, foreign-owned factories have thrived for years by pumping out gadgets from laptops to personal digital assistants for US consumers. But those plants initiated layoffs even before the September 11 attacks because of the slowing US economy. Their future seems even darker now.” This year, as many as 500,000 people have lost their jobs nationwide. The economy has slimmed for almost three quarters in a row, with no recovery basically in sight. The Scottish Executive, a internet article on the global insurance markets, reported that “ There have also been impacts via the insurance sector: firstly, the direct impacts on individual insurance companies which will suffer losses as a result of the attacks; secondly, the concern that falling equity prices might trigger automatic sale by insurance companies of their stockholdings in order to meet the FSA solvency rules; and, thirdly, the possibility that UK air carriers would not have adequate third party war risks insurance to allow them to...
