Posted on 09/12/2014 9:59:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's deployment of National Guard troops on the U.S.-Mexican border is "reprehensible" and puts neighborly relations at risk, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said in an interview published on Friday.
"Not only is it displeasing, but I think it's reprehensible," Pena Nieto told Mexican daily El Universal in an interview published on Friday. "It is an attack on good relations and neighborliness."
Pena Nieto said Perry's decision contrasts starkly with other U.S. states, like California, which have embraced more immigrant-friendly policies.
"The policy is completely unacceptable and it does not embody the spirit of cordiality and friendship between two nations," he added.
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What’s at stake?
Receipts from illegals in the US power a large part of the Mexican economy. Massive amounts of cash flowing over the border.
Our people are not doing what they have said they are there to do and it sounds as if El Presidente is waxing wroth at our efforts to control the border. Must be doing some good things.
Assisting drug and human traffickers and bogus “refugees” from other hellholes to get into OUR country isn’t very neighborly either-f*** you and the horse you rode in on, Nieto...
Boycott Mexico !The Narco-terrorist State
I care- It’s evidence of success! You know your actions are effective.
“And strangely enough, so do the Mexicans until they come this side of the border. And then Mexico is the love of their life. Go figure!”
There’s a couple of things in play; the population of Mexico is about 100M or there abouts. There’s about 10M ~ 15M Mexican illegals here in the US. So, about 10% ~ 15% of Mexican citizens living illegally here in the US. Who are these people? They’re the young, restless and ambitious for the most part. So, what would these people be doing if they were not in the US? They would be rioting, and revolting against the current Mexican government and it’s power elite. Now, the Mexican privileged and powerful are scared $h!tless that such a revolution may occur. So, they want desperately for the US border remain an outlet for these people. Keep’em focused outward toward the US instead of inward toward their own corrupt government and elites. Pretty neat, huh? Oh, almost forgot; Mexican illegals here in the US send lots of money back to Mexico to support their families remaining behind. In fact, it’s about 10% of Mexican GDP. Hence, this keeps those who remained in Mexico placated. And, the Mexican government is relieved from having to fund welfare for them. Heck of a double bump. Meanwhile, American citizens are getting screwed front, back, any way you name it.
Well Pena, if you feel bad enough about what Rick Perry has done, may I suggest that you take your army and invade Texas and put Mr. Perry in his place.
BTW, how did that work out the last time you guys tried that?
Thought so...
Everything I needed to know about the ultimate cultural effects of unlimited immigration I learned from the American Indians.
Pena Nieto can gnosh on my pena and then ESAD.
Yep, that’s one of my reasons for those people staying put in Mexico. It would have to improve the nation at some point. They wouldn’t tolerate it forever.
I’ve mentioned this on the forum before.
You have to be careful with terms like ‘best and brightest’ or the inference of such. The average education of the people that come up here is 4 to 8 years. Many of them have no formal education at all.
Did you know that Mexico has about a 4% per year growth rate. They could send 4 million illegals over the border each and every year, and the population in Mexico would remain roughly the same or actually grow a little.
That would be 40 million illegals in ten years, and Mexico would still have the same population it started with.
To prove their sincerity, they will open their border to central america and hand out residence visas to everyone wading the river.
Enrique can sit on it and spin.
“You have to be careful with terms like ‘best and brightest’ or the inference of such.”
Thanks, think we are pretty much on the same page. My comment “best and brightest” was in reference to the Mexican population and those who are complacent and satisfied with the status quo. Maybe someday we will get a robust fence built and will be able to force some change in Mexico. When you look at their resources, population, land mass, etc, Mexico has all the critical components to be a first world country.
“It is an attack on good relations and neighborliness.”
So is sending people over to our country to steal our jobs.
Hypocrite needs to look at his own southern border policies before critiquing us.
I don’t know. Our military is being morphed and we have a lot more pansies now then we had back then.
I agree. Heck, look at Los Angeles. If the population wasn’t there, it would look a lot like Mexico. Go out to Palmdale and look around. It’s basically the same thing.
If Mexico put in a few nuclear power stations down there on the coasts, they could desalinize water and provide power to an expanse of acreage that could turn the area into a rich agricultural enterprise, plus an oasis for the populace to boot.
It’s a shame what the Mexican government has been allowed to get away with. Our national leadership is mirroring it too.
We should have been putting heat on it’s government. Instead our leaders adopted the Banana Republic methods.
Reminds me of a pig farmer who bordered my farm when we lived in KY. We had friendly and cordial relations if I might be redundant in expression. Friendly until he let his pigs invade my farm. After much diplomatic negotiations, he totally blew me off. I shot a bunch of his hog on my side of the fence and he got the message. My headache was finally over.
“the arrogance of Mexico”
Look at what they get away with: they flood our country with narcotics poisons, they break our laws with impunity—in fact, Mexico educates its citizens on how to break our laws and `milk’ our welfare system.
Mexico’s leadership has a feeling of entitlement to perqs and rewards of American citizenship, as demonstrated by this presidente. And Mexican nationals begin making demands for this-and-that from Americans as soon as they find a hole to hide in north of the river.
I don’t understand why we aren’t in a state of war with them.
Instead we train and arm them: Los Zetas, the narco-terrorists who control the eastern part of the Mexican coast, by way of which floods of “immigrants”—now from central America—invade our country, and these criminals were trained and armed by Uncle Sam.
The problem may be that our government is busy warring with its own middle class.
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