Posted on 02/02/2025 4:24:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?
Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.
Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security Secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely?
After four years of Biden's appeasement, Mexico seems to assume that it has a sovereign right to encourage the flight of millions of its own impoverished citizens illegally into the U.S. and further assumes that it can fast-track millions of Latin Americans through its territory and across our border.
Mexico either cannot or will not address the billions of dollars of raw fentanyl products shipped in -- mostly from China -- and then processed for export to the U.S. by its cartels across a nonexistent border.
Mexico seems to have little concern that some 75,000 Americans on average die from mostly Mexican-imported fentanyl each year -- more deaths in just the last decade than all the Americans killed in action during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. Who then is our friend, and who is our enemy?
This appalling death toll is in part due to the deliberate efforts of the cartels to mask fentanyl as less deadly narcotics or camouflage the poison by lacing it into counterfeit prescription drugs.
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The lawless Biden Regime is over. Mexico is doing FAFO.
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Who knows, once the U.S. is respected again and not considered an easy mark, Mexico could once again become a fine and reciprocal friend to the United States.
Rather than worry about who is sending remittances, why not politely place a 20 percent tax (about $12 billion) on all cash sent from the U.S. to Mexico?
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Mexico has a history of being all three at different times.
During WW 1 they were friendly with Germany.
For 70 years during the rule of the PRI party, they were buds with the Soviet Union.
Either way, they are not to be trusted even when they are acting friendly to us.
Mexico is like America’s ex-wife.
Had to look up “FAFO”. A gen Z phrase. You’re pretty hip
“Who knows, once the U.S. is respected again and not considered an easy mark, Mexico could once again become a fine and reciprocal friend to the United States.”
Never happen.
“Had to look up “FAFO”. A gen Z phrase. You’re pretty hip”
We used that down South back in the 60s.
History shows that weaker nations adjacent to strong nations are just lying in wait for the strong neighbor to show weakness.
It’s human nature.
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I vote for ‘something else’, they are a corrupt country and only care about how much lucre their citizens can pry out of the American taxpayer and send home. If you want to see Mexico become a good neighbor, put a 50% tariff on all remittances from their citizens in the US. I guarantee they will straighten up when their bottom line is affected.
Mexico's in bed with the cartels and the children they traffic and drugs they push.
In NJ there’s the expression “You wanna play f around, we’ll play f around’’.
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