They provide for much needed jobs and tax money to the Mexican government; these plants however have some detrimental effects such as exploitation of their workers and often don't comply with any proper waste disposal of their operation by-products.
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Many of them were small towns before maquiladoras arrived. Once NAFTA was put in place and started operating in 1994, many of these cities became boomtowns with sudden population and economic growth. However, most of them couldn't cope with such growth and have become ugly, industrial towns with low quality of life, high crime rates. The best example of such problems is the city of Juarez, bordering El Paso, Texas. See related links for some photos.
All of them are set-up with foreign capitalMost are located on border cities in northern MexicoAll of them are assembly plants with the intent of exporting the manufactured goods produced in them
On the Mexican Central Plateau.
They are called maquiladoras.
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The Central Mexican Plateau or Mexican Altiplano.
Most border cities such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros have maquiladoras. There are also some of them in northern cities a bit more south of the border, such as Mexicali, Chihuahua, Hermosillo or Monterrey.
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They are known as maquiladoras.
The Central Mexican Plateau or Mexican Altiplano.