What a lot of people here consider squalor is just normal lower class living in Mexico-that is a different world-the 3d one...
My first husband and I went to Mexico a lot-the company he worked for had people there, and we had friends there who worked for other American companies. Since we both spoke Spanish and liked to explore off the beaten path, we ate and slept in plenty of places most people here would not consider. And no, we never got Montezuma’s revenge, because we’d been going there for so long and were used to the amoebas.
The people who live in that squalor are not always trash-maybe just poor-but the ones who come here as mojados are not, for the most part people who “just want to work”, blah, blah like the liberals say-I guess that may have been true in the past, but it wasn’t even when I was a kid, most of those people are leeches and narcos/drug traffickers, and that is why most of us native Texans of Hispanic ancestry dislike them more intensely than practically anyone else does...
When we lived in SA, the people who most disliked the illegals were the legal Mexicans. And they were pretty vocal about it, saying if they could do it legally and come here to work, so should the ones sneaking in at the border.
Of course - there are honest people who have pride and just have a lesser standard of living - but I’m glad to hear you think the same of most coming here, at least to our areas of Texas. Both SA and Houston have enough resources that draw those who just want something for free. The smaller towns or communites don’t have this flood of criminals in their areas so they don’t see it