Posted on 03/25/2017 5:51:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Denise Dresser is a Mexican political analyst, columnist and academic. She is a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Today, Canada is standing tall. Its citizens are patting themselves on the back, proud to hail from one of the bastions of liberalism, of tolerance, of acceptance, of compassion. While the United States is closing doors, Canada is opening them. While U.S. President Donald Trump is slouching toward authoritarianism, Canada is safeguarding democracy. Canadians have much to be proud of and much to teach the world about compassion. Except for that one troubling spot of not-so-benign neglect that is Canada’s relationship with Mexico. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to embrace suffering Syrians, his government seems ready to throw embattled Mexicans under the bus just to appease Mr. Trump. Where Mexico is concerned, far-flung conflicts seem to matter more than a raging fire in the neighbourhood
This selective interest is not new, but has become more painful and more obvious. For the 22 years that the North American free-trade agreement has been in place, Mexico has never fully been viewed as a partner with equal standing.
At worst, it has been a footnote; at best, a tourist destination. Although more than 2,600 Canadian companies have offices and operations in Mexico, including major firms such as Bombardier, Goldcorp and Linamar, Mexico has never been part of Canadians’ mental map. It remained a distant, unknown, uninteresting place, rarely covered by the media, rarely part of the conversation. Mexico’s fitful efforts at democratization, its human-rights crisis, its U.S.-sponsored war against drugs that produced more than 150,000 deaths and more than 28,000 disappearances in the past decade left Canadians cold. During the years my twin sons spent at Upper Canada College, their Mexican-Canadian roots were not viewed as a true sign of North
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Most nations of the world are failed nations and naught less than that. The vast majority of their citizens are victims and that is tragic. If we welcome all of these victims into our nation our nation will also become a failed nation and we will fail economically and culturally.
If we welcome economic victims from Muslim nations we are welcoming a class of victims that are by religious edict totally opposed to our way of life and law. The highly educated Muslims are different. Most of them only want what you and I want. However, their is a subgroup of the highly educated that are religious fanatics and dangerous to the extreme.
Their are good Muslims and bad Muslims and same be said for Christians, and Buddhist and atheists.
We should not close our borders to Mexico nor Central America, nor South America nor Europe, nor Africa nor Asia nor Australia. We should welcome those that will make our great country even greater. We must use extreme vetting to make damn sure whom we let in will be an asset and gift to our great nation.
ps
My wife is a Mexican National now US citizen the legal way. Also a computer engineer with several degrees from Texas Universities. My best man at my wedding was a Palestinian and like a brother to me.
Our nation needs good people to immigrate. It must only be good people.
Well this is a new term “displaced Mexicans”
LOL
undocumented workers, undocumented immigrants, anything but what they are...
ILLEGAL ALIENS...
She’s a “white privilege” racist against the indigenous brown/red natives who live like they did 500 years ago without the human sacrifices unless you count all the drug-war killings and political killings as their modern substitute.
I wonder how many Aztec-descendants work for her as maids and gardeners?
And why did her kids go to a Canadian university and not a Mexican one?
Note to this biotch....no one likes mexicans..not even mexicans lol
Eh, most of them still don’t think of themselves of Americans, even after several generations. The rates of military service are often appalling (see the four liberal justices on the court as an example).
You are right.
I took an economics class last spring. And the professor pointed out why places like the United States and Canada have prospered while Mexico has not. And it’s because Spain insisted on having all the riches sent back to them, while England let people flourish in the New World.
Mexico does have a sort of caste system.
“Throwing them at the US is easy”
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Yes. It’s like our southern border is a giant pressure cooker valve.
SO sorry for the triple post! It kept telling me the site wasn’t responding so I kept pushing “send”!
When I have similar problems, I open FR in a new tab to see if my comment has posted.
I also report abuse on myself if I post more than once. The moderator usually removes the duplicate posts within a few minutes.
Excellent idea! Thanks! I will do that. :)
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