Is Trump Right About Mexico?

London Telegraph ^ | July 23rd, 2015 | reasonmclucus

[kathsua]

Is Mexico adopting an old British practice from the colonial era? Is Donald Trump correct when he says Mexico is sending some of its criminals into the United States mixed in with otherwise law abiding immigrants?

During the colonial period Britain cut the cost of operating jails by sentencing some of its criminals to “penal transportation to” the North American colonies. After the American Revolution “transportation” meant being sent to Australia or New Zealand. The practice was particularly common with Irish and Scottish criminals and is mentioned in some Irish folk songs

[xzins]

Of course they’re sending us criminals.

And that’s discounting the drug cartel members who are being sent...who do murder and mayhem throughout Mexico, so why would anyone be even a bit surprised to see the same tactics here?