In my opinion Mexico like several other foreign nations has been waging economic warfare on the United States for decades. And they all have been very successful at it especially since our politicians and top bureaucrats all seem to be quite happy with the way things have been going.
The interesting thing about this sort of economic warfare is that Mexico, to pick on them only, is in the precarious position that they NEED the United States to not change our ways vis a vis with our policies towards Mexico. If we do and it’s in a negative way towards them then they are... to put it mildly... Screwed.
They can’t reabsorb all of the millions that have left Mexico and come here to earn a living or in most cases a ‘welfare check’. Their economy as well as their nation would collapse under the strain of the returning ‘immigrants’.
So who really is in the driver’s seat of the immigration situation. In my opinion it is NOT Mexico.
“When America unites there isn't anything that America can't do”....Donald J. Trump Dec 1, 2016 Cincinnati Thank You Rally....
They’ve been sucking out all our factories, too. They’ve been playing around quite a bit.
But what about the Mexican people? Family Values doesn’t stop at the Rio Grande. /s
Sounds like Mexico best start planning on how to handle the resurge back to Mexico.
“Their economy as well as their nation would collapse under the strain of the returning ‘immigrants’.”
So, are you ready so impoverish your descendants to the tenth generation to protect them from that?
Good points. They really are a third world country that ‘emerged’ to a second world country only because of the policies put in place by their northern first world neighbor.
But those same policies that have lifted Mexico up have also brought America down. That’s the point.
The more America declines, the more Mexico benefits to the point they are wishing America disintegrates which is exactly what is seen now.
Those that are close to upper crust Mexicans and their families know exactly what I am talking about. They comment frequently how ‘old’ and aging Americans are, how they are declining and don’t want to work. They make these comments with a thin smile as if they are optimistic about the benefits to be received as America dies.
And they also refuse to acknowledge America is America in the sense that they also consider themselves as ‘Americans’. Their intent is to change the language, culture, terms, and definitions so that they are their own masters which although laudable is based on taking over another culture, and that business model is destined to fail similarly to a parasite devouring its host. So they can never be their own masters because their whole MO is on finding other masters to absorb.
They care not for the magnanimity that Americans have shown them for the last many decades. They want to take the means of production from Americans and become decision makers about the fruits of that production. Their opportunity is about ‘taking over’, not about creating prosperity de novo.
Everything of quality in Mexico is an offshoot of American standards. The idea was to ‘raise them up’ as a first world partner but as you pointed out, they are unable to sustain themselves in that rank. Culturally, they can’t ever reach first world status because they do not have marketing power.
Here’s a takeaway from my knowledge and experience about what may happen to Mexican industry as they start to lose the jobs that they’ve taken from Americans: Japan will ramp up production as well as Middle Eastern partners and China. But this will go slow and sputter because these partners have other third world populations to consider including some large ones in their own backyards.
Going forward years into a Trump presidency, Americans will have prosperity they haven’t seen in a decade or more. This prosperity will be American born and be possibly larger than at any other period of its history. The export of this prosperity will be to trade partners who have products to export in return. Cheap labor will not be a returnable trade and at root, that’s all that Mexico has to offer.