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As Mexican President Vicente Fox tours the U.S. and meets with President Bush, it is not surprising that union members in Rust Belt cities continue to oppose free trade initiatives that eliminate high paid manufacturing jobs in the auto industry. However, opposition to free trade is growing in a more unusual quarter-Mexican Americans and Mexican migrant workers. Having come to the U.S. in search of better paying jobs, migrant farm workers are finding that their wages are being undercut as companies and agribusiness find it cheaper to relocate farming and processing operations to Mexico, than it is to pay Mexican migrants working in the U.S.