FORD’S PLAN TO shift the production of small cars from Michigan to Mexico dismayed those people worried about the demise of American manufacturing. Donald Trump—who has called the factory Ford already operates south of the border a “disgrace“—took to Fox News last week to make the bogus assertion that the automaker “plans to fire all its employees in the United States.”
Of the 11 new car factories built in North America since 2011, nine are in Mexico. But that does not equate to cutting jobs in the US. In fact, Ford building small cars in Mexico allows the automaker to ramp up production of trucks and SUVs in the states, which is good news locally and more widely.
