Posted on 02/16/2024 8:32:29 AM PST by River Hawk
Mexico is our next-door neighbor but it seems many Americans are not well-informed about it.
Wrong and outdated impressions of Mexico affect our policymakers as well. This is particularly true regarding border and immigration policy.
Americans think of Mexico as a poor country. And it is, compared to the United States.
But Mexico is wealthier and has a higher standard of living than most countries in Latin America and Africa.
There are, of course, many poor Mexicans. But doesn’t Mexico itself, with all its wealth, have a responsibility to help its own poor people?
In the U.S., any meddling perpetrated by the Russians is dwarfed by the widespread interference carried on by the Mexican government and its agents in the United States.
Mexico operates 52 consulates on U.S. soil. It’s the biggest consular network in the world. Yet you hardly hear of it.
It’s as if Americans don’t see Mexico as a country with its own interests, which can be opposed to those of the United States.
Americans see immigration to our country as a great honor. Look at what a great country we are, everybody in the world wants to come here and become an American.
But not everybody in the world sees it that way.
When I resided in Mexico, I came to understand that Mexicans see immigration differently than Americans do. Mexicans sometimes told me they wanted to emigrate to the United States. Not one of them, however, told me he wanted to go the U.S. for freedom or to become an American. They come here for the money, for the benefits.
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Also, Mexico is wild, lawless, beautiful, and free.
Much, much freer than the USA, on the whole, with some exceptions, for instance “gun laws.”
Mexicans, on the whole, are smart, aware, beautiful people.
I’d rather live ANYWHERE in Mexico than in Dearborn, Michigan, or the South side of Chicago, or any other number of holes brought to you by Democrats.
Visit. Don’t dress like a tourist. Look around. It’s amazing.
I spent a year on Short Term Missions in Mexico. The Bible students ripped me off Constantly. WHY? Stealing is culturally acceptable. They do not view it Wrong like we do here.
Buckle your seat belt and lock down everything you have!
YOU have been warned!!
Mexicans sometimes told me they wanted to emigrate to the United States. Not one of them, however, told me he wanted to go the U.S. for freedom or to become an American.
Mexican Carlos Slim, one of the richest people in the world, (tracphone) bailed out the failing NYTimes twice.
Not from my experience.
You think we are better off with octogenarians leasing the country ehhh?
But please let me hear about your expertise.
Leading…not leasing. My eyes are not a sharp as they used to be.
The only important thing to know is that 50% of its economy is based on the transfer-theft of untaxed $10-billion each year sent to mexiland by the MIVs...
The problem is that the wealth is almost all with the drug cartels and corrupt politicians.
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