Sounds horrible.
I absolutely have no issues with people that do it the right way as your wife did.
Without their leeching off us, Mexico would be considered a failed state. We don’t need their problems and we don’t need to take care of all their problems.
They don’t even have to pay for a military. They know we’ll protect them. They have no excuses for generations of failure. Their leadership is the problem.
You should see the pictures of Mexico, it is really pretty, but the issue has IMO been the corrupt politicians and cartels obviously.
They achieved this breakdown of their nation IMO through a lack of guns (second amendment).
I have heard stories from that side of the family about how guns are owned, Federalies come through, confiscate the guns and then drug cartels with guns come in and dominate areas.
BAD BAD and BAD