Here is an odd thing.
Figure this. If we hate Mexicans up here so darned much why do Americans drop money to go relax in Mexico?
The truth is we like the Mexican people, we just hate them when they are desperate and nasty,and they get that way BECAUSE of the plight the Mexican Government puts them in.
I love Mexico as a country/area, but their Govt is absolutely the problem. I told this story a while back on a thread, but it applies here as well.
When I did the motorsports thing back in the late 90s / early 200s, I had the chance to run part of the Baja 1000 course with a good friend of mine from Mex in a high end prerunner/race truck. We came across a bunch of shacks put together from collected wood and tin that were homes to several people out in the middle of nowhere and a looooong way from any town or village on the map.
We come roaring in there in this truck that cost more than any dozen of those people would ever see in their lifetime and shut it down. Out of a shack comes one of, if not the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on with a little boy clinging to her leg. She offered us water and something to eat with a big smile on her face and not a care in the world.
This woman had not a pot to whizz in, nor literally a window to throw it out of. We could have raped and killed her on the spot, and no one would have ever known. But this woman, was willing to offer us what little she had...total strangers who obviously had all the money in the world by comparison. I will go to my grave remembering that simple act of kindness.
The Mexican people, by and large are some of the best people on the planet. But just as you say, their govt. is the problem. I live in an area filled with Americans of Mexican decent. We all get along just fine. I don’t know anyone who “hates Mexicans.” It’s just another propaganda scam that we do the Dems and LaRaza types exploit for power.
As for the illegals themselves, I think a lot of the “hatred” the Dems jin up is propaganda there as well. It’s not hate. We want them to come legally or not at all. Sure some people ‘hate’ them, but there are always that type and they are a miniscule minority.
That’s what pols on the right need to drive home and until they do, the Dems/libs will keep winning the propaganda war.