[yummyfajitas]

Foxconn could open a factory in Texas tomorrow and get enough Mexicans to staff it by the end of the week but our laws won’t allow them to pay the low wages they pay in China.

This is unlikely. Mexico is more than twice as rich (per capita) as China ($9k vs $4k gdp per capita). Why would people leave Mexico just to earn lower wages in Texas?

[TomOfTTB]

But Foxconn wouldn't have to pay all the fees and middle men involved with getting products from China to here. So they could afford to pay more because their product would need nothing more than a truck.

[yummyfajitas]

There are certainly niches where this might make sense. But the general trend has been for low wage jobs to leave Mexico and go to China. Mexico is a middle income country, closer to Greece or Poland than to China.

Don't get me wrong - I think there are great benefits to North American economic integration. It was only very recently that China supplanted Mexico as our #2 trading partner. I just don't think it's reasonable to expect Mexico to occupy the same niche as China.