Hey, I got this CRAZY idea, how about cutting off their number one buyer of illegal drugs? How about securing their preferred route to distributing drugs?
Eh, who am I kidding. A secure border wall just means that the Mexican cartels move all of their operations to here in the United States rather than just most of them as it has been for years.
I mean, honestly, if Mexico did pay for the wall, they’d have a much less corrupt government, far fewer illegal drug cartels, and a vastly lowered crime problem as hordes of transients on their way to the US border won’t be there.
Of course, take home money for most of Mexico’s politicians and police would also take a massive hit, probably why they squawk so loudly whenever the topic is brought up.
If we were smart, we'd make the corruption of the Mexican government an urgent foreign policy priority. We're in a much better position to clean up Mexico than we are the Middle East. Just reducing or eliminating the amount of aid we funnel to hopelessly corrupt officials is a YUGE start.
They might even begin thinking the time has come that they might just have to come up with some ideas to make it on their own.
We've been enabling these people way too long.