Mexican governors call on AMLO to do more to close border with U.S.

CIUDAD JUAREZ - Faced with the threat of the increased spread of coronavirus across their borders, three northern Mexicans states are calling on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to do more to stop people entering Mexico from the U.S.

The three states – Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon – border Texas, which has more than 2,500 confirmed cases of the virus as of Sunday, based on more than 25,000 tests. Combined, the three Mexican states have over 90 cases, though the number of tests is not clear.

The urgent call comes just days before the April 5th - 12th Holy Week vacation period begins, a time when cross-border traffic traditionally spikes. Traditionally Mexicans head north to shop and Americans with ties to Mexico head south to visit families. Many of them use Interstate 35.

Mexican consul generals in the U.S, including at the Dallas consulate, are urging their paisanos, countrymen, to stay put during Holy Week.

Mexican consul generals in the U.S, including at the Dallas consulate, are urging their paisanos, countrymen, to stay put during Holy Week.

A blatant admission, yet below the radar, that Mexico knows exactly how many "paisanos" (legal residents and illegal aliens) are in America.

JMO, YMMV

I think you missed something important before you asked your questions...

The border should have been sealed tight in the 1960’s, if not earlier!

I love obviously rhetorical questions.
Deportation vs. the Cost of Letting Illegal Immigrants Stay August 3, 2017

If we assume there are 11.43 million illegal immigrants in the country, then the total fiscal costs they create during their lifetimes using the net present value concept is $746.3 billion.25 In short, the savings associated with removing or causing even a modest fraction of the 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants in the country to return home would be significant. 1960 to 2017...what has the cost been during that time frame? (rhetorical question...asked simply for effect, like your questions)

If American citizens had access to the money for these extra costs ("costs" are taxes) over decades would they then have more money to hire Americans instead of the illegal aliens you posit doing certain jobs? (another rhetorical question)
And, secondly, if there were no illegal aliens to hire people would have no choice but to hire their fellow Americans.

Where would all the pot heads and druggies get their daily fixes?
This particular rhetorical question was the most amusing.

The same place they've been getting them since the Federal government stepped into drug prohibition...the black market.
Nobody says it has to be a Mexican/Central America black market.

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