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No, that’s not true. I’m actually surprised at how good Mexicans are - they show up for work, they do a good job and they would actually like to be part of this country.

The problem is the Mexican government, which is hand in glove with Mexican criminal organizations, mostly through their connections with Mexican civil service unions (think SEIU). Of course, the civil servants actually don’t provide any services: there is no potable water in most Mexican cities, crime is unpunished if you’re the right kind of criminal, and government jobs, including teaching, are sold to the highest bidder.

When it feels threatened, the teachers’ union goes out and burns tires and throws stones in Oaxaca, a southern state where Acapulco is located, a formerly nice place, and in fact the civil service unions are the big leaders in all the violence in Mexico and protect and are protected by the drug gangs, which smuggle drugs and people from Central America. Of course, Mexico won’t take accept the Central Americans as immigrants, and as for the drugs, they obviously just wave them on by.

More than 100 Mexican politicians (reformers) were killed last year by the drug gangs.

One thing we shouldn’t forget is that Mexico is technically, according to its constitution, a Socialist country. And therein lies the problem.

Basically, yes. Cortez recruited Maya allies to conquer the Aztecs. The church then converted the Maya to Catholicism, utterly destroying all flammable vestiges of their culture and killing anyone who didn't want to become Catholic. The conquistadores, newly minted hidalgos and escuderos then enslaved the Indians, including their former Maya allies. In 1821 Mexico rebelled against Spain. The Indians were promised freedom if they supported the revolution. After independence they got it, on a similar basis to the freedom enjoyed by African Americans in the century following the American Civil War. The country was essentially an apartheid state - Spaniards (criollos) at the top, mixed race (mestizo) people on a lower level, just above the Indians. The Hidalgo class took over the government.

In 1836 Texas rebelled. This ultimately resulted in the Mexican American war of 1846. The Mexican upper classes refused to fight and Winfield Scott took Mexico City with a force a fraction of the size of the Mexican army and 2000 miles from his base of supply. After the defeat, Mexico lost half their territory under the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Mexicans have never been sanguine about this. While this was going on Queen Victoria's minions in British Honduras (Belize) were making a killing, selling obsolete Brown Bess flintlock muskets to the Maya (See North Dakota in 1876 for a similar practice).

Following the war Mexico was bankrupt. They borrowed a lot of money from the French that they couldn't pay back and in 1862 Napoleon III essentially repo'ed the country. This set off a 5 year revolutionary struggle which the Mexicans ultimately won (it was the French, you know...) Benito Juarez took over the country and eliminated racial preference. People were encouraged to inter-marry and most did, except for the richest (Spanish or criollos) and the poorest, the Indians. The country floundered along until about 1910.

Back in 1846, the Maya, using their British muskets, rebelled. This touched off a civil war, the Caste War, sputtered on from 1846 to 1910 when the Mexican army introduced the Maya to the tactical advantages of the Maxim gun. And peace came to southern Mexico, just in time for the next civil war...

About the time the Caste War ended the Mexican Revolution took place. This resulted in a Marxist constitution, suppression of foreign trade and investment, nationalization of key infrastructure and resources, suppression of religion, a one party state and a kind of weird radical interracialism combined with extreme xenophobia. This floundered along until the 1980s, by which time it had become apparent that the whole socialism thing just was not working out. The result was El Comercio Libre, AKA NAFTA. NAFTA worked great for the rich and the working class but totally screwed the Mexican middle class. If you were a small businessman in Mexico you found yourself competing with gigantic American companies who could come in, build a factory and manufacture your product for a fraction of the price that you could make it for. Along with NAFTA the Bush administration, followed by Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama, drastically weakened border enforcement drawing a flood of uneducated Mexican peasants to the US, where they could be hired for cheap and where they couldn't complain about wages or working conditions for fear of deportation. And of course the people who really made out from weaker border enforcement were the drug and human traffickers, who make their fortunes tax free and use their wealth to further corrupt the Mexican political process while spreading carnage to innocent Mexicans who just want to make a decent living in their own country.

So yes, the problem is... Mexicans.