… leaving behind the bad Mexicans to run their own government in Mexico.
“Trump Got His Wish. Mexico Is Now the Wall.” (New York Times, February 7):
Dozens of Mexican National Guard troops equipped with helmets, batons and transparent shields coalesced on the highway connecting the Mexican cities of Ciudad Hidalgo and Tapachula to stop a caravan of migrants heading to the United States from Central America.
Mexico has effectively turned into an extension of Mr. Trump’s immigration police beyond American territory. And this is the case on multiple fronts: On the southern border with Guatemala, they prevent Central American migrants from coming into Mexico
That’s why I am surprised by the indifference shown by so many Mexicans over the abuses of the National Guard and the vicious attacks on social media aimed at Central Americans. Those xenophobic comments remind me of those I have been hearing for decades here in the United States
Ordinarily, the NYT likes to portray “brown people” as virtuous, especially if they’re living in U.S. taxpayer-funded public housing, soaking up the Medicaid dollars, and voting for the favored candidates of the coastal elite. But when the “brown people” vote and run their own government to suit themselves, the NYT is ready to scold. (But this cannot be whitesplaining?)
[Separately, let’s look at how much the two countries spend to control the border. Mexico spends roughly $6 billion per year on its entire military (Trading Economics), including jet airplanes, Navy ships, etc. The U.S. spends $21 billion per year, more than triple, to run Customs and Border Protection.]
If the NYT informs us that Mexicans in the U.S. are good while Mexicans collectively in Mexico are bad, isn’t the only logical explanation that most or all of the righteous Mexicans migrated to the U.S. prior to the Dark Age of Trump (TM)?
“ Mexico has effectively turned into an extension of Mr. Trump’s immigration police beyond American territory. ”
Wait why isn’t the NYT celebrating the US’s foreign policy victory over Mexico?
This discussion has some interesting accounts of receiving migrants, from the point of view of Mexicans. (Other host countries feature also.)
The experiences usually seem not to have been positive. But perhaps it’s clever misinformation by Russia to trick other countries into missing out on the benefits of taking in migrants?
> If the NYT informs us that Mexicans in the U.S. are good while Mexicans collectively in Mexico are bad, isn’t the only logical explanation that most or all of the righteous Mexicans migrated to the U.S. prior to the Dark Age of Trump (TM)?
Partially, but whether they’re good or bad mostly depends on their geographic location, and Mexico could convert all of its “bad” Mexicans to “good” Mexicans if they all moved to the United States so they could vote Democrat. Bernie is going to start making Good Mexicans again on Day One.
“We’re going to end the demonization of the undocumented people. On day one, it’s going to be a very busy day,” he said. “We’re going to sign an executive order that restores the legal status of the 1.8 million young people and their parents eligible for DACA,” he said to cheers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/17/bernie-sanders-colorado-rally-draws-crowd-of-11400/
Annexing Mexico makes sense in many ways. The people in both countries want mexicans to come to US, but all the land suitable for living in US is full. US needs more land & money from Mexican exports. The southwest expansion was an incremental annexation which stopped when it obviously should have continued. The land in Baja could become the most valuable in the world, under an even slightly less dysfunctional government.
US conquered Mexico several times every time we gave it back, wasn’t worth keeping. Annexing Mexico wouldn’t turn Mexico into America it would turn America into Mexico(faster.) Culture is downstream of genetics.
Related: El Salvador’s population is 5.7M, and there are at least 1.1M immigrants from El Salvador living in the US. That’s at least 1/6th of everyone born in El Salvador. If these immigrants represent their most ambitious, then who is left to work in El Salvador?
“We are desperate — desperate — for more people,” Mulvaney said. “We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we’ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants.”
The Trump administration wants those immigrants to come in a “legal fashion,” Mulvaney said, according to the recording.
Mulvaney’s remarks appear in contrast to the public position of several top figures in Trump’s White House — especially that of senior policy adviser Stephen Miller — who have been working to slash both legal and illegal immigration via a slew of policies that aim to close off the U.S. border to foreigners. They have insisted that the steady arrival of newcomers depresses wages for the blue-collar U.S. workers whose votes helped lift Trump to the presidency in 2016.