Posted on 07/09/2018 6:09:08 AM PDT by Liberty7732
This is not a shot at Mexicans. They are humans in the exact same way as Americans, Nigerians, Italians, Indonesians and every other people group. In the Christian view, they are made in the image of God. In the American Founders’ view, they like all men are created with inalienable rights granted by God.
But this is a shot at the Mexican government and, to a degree, the Mexican culture. And despite virtually every media story out there fretting and warning about America being a bad neighbor because of Trump’s policies, the actual evidence that Mexico is the bad actor in the relationship is pretty compelling.
We are treated to liberals and Democrats lecturing Americans on being bad neighbors for Mexico, and apologizing to Mexico and the world for being bad neighbors. If you google ‘Mexico is a bad neighbor’ all you get are endless stories about the U.S. being a bad neighbor. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is hogwash.
If these critics really cared about Mexico’s well-being — and the well-being of Mexicans — they would be more critical of the corruption and culture that has left a fertile land with a great climate, access to two oceans and next door to the greatest economic power in history, in impoverished misery. They would be calling on Mexicans’ better angels, calling them to change and actually become more like the United States with individual liberties and market economics and accountable government.
Trashing America is nothing more than political expediency and opponent demonization that causes yet more division.
So let’s look at Mexico and the United States as neighbors. Who is the better neighbor and worse neighbor?
• Would a good neighbor send their problems next door? Mexico has an undeniably de facto policy of illegally exporting their poorest citizens, and those of neighboring countries. The 11 to 20 million illegal aliens in the United States today almost universally came here poor, uneducated and untrained. The poorest in a country are always a burden, so Mexico encourages them to head north and does nothing — nothing — to stop them at the border. When we see the trains of migrants from Guatemala or Honduras or other Central American countries, that is being done with the active participation of Mexican authorities. They don’t want those poor people in their country — they have too many of their own — so they usher them on to America. How is that being a good neighbor? Canada doesn’t do any of this.
• Would a good neighbor criticize you for locking your doors at night so they couldn’t break in? Well, Mexico does. President Trump ran on securing our border with Mexico (because the Northern Border does not require this level of security) and he won election as most Americans understand a sovereign nation needs borders and the ability to determine who comes in and out. Yet Mexican leaders were openly hostile, criticizing Trump, with Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said the U.S. was returning to the “era of the ugly American” and repeatedly called a “useless wall”? Why useless? Because Mexican authorities will continue to find ways to ship the poorest, uneducated residents to their neighbor? They don’t want a wall because they don’t want those residents in Mexico, they want them in the United States sending $28 billion in remittances back to Mexico from America. How is that being a good neighbor? Canada doesn’t do any of this.
• Would a good neighbor take your generous donations to help them with such ingratitude? The U.S. gives Mexico $320 million in aid annually. Yet is there gratefulness for this generosity? Nothing apparent. They take the money and spend it.
• Would a good neighbor who has received so many benefits by living next to a generous neighbor openly criticize that neighbor? Absurd, yet that is exactly what Mexican authorities do regularly. Whether it is beefing up our Southern Border security, to increasing citizen IDs or deporting those we find to be here illegally, Mexican authorities criticize the U.S. No gratefulness for unburdening them from their poorest citizens. Just criticism.
No. The case is very strong that the Mexican government is the bad actor in this relationship.
Here’s what America has been doing to be a good neighbor — oftentimes to our own detriment:
➞ Accepting some of Mexico’s poorest, providing them with healthcare, schooling and opportunities that they had no chance of getting in their home country. We even teach the children of families that break into our country — in their own language. Now that’s being an awfully good neighbor.
➞ Providing $320 million annually in direct financial aid to Mexico. The largest chunk goes to security issues and drug cartel fighting, but also to education and infrastructure. Obviously, a portion of it goes to the graft that is undeniably rampant in the Mexican government.
➞ Allowing people who sneak into America to transfer back to Mexico a whopping $28 billion out of our economy and into Mexico’s. We don’t tax it or take a portion of it. We just allow it to exit our country and economy and help the nation on our Southern Border. Of course remittances flow everywhere, but from the United States to Mexico is by far the biggest.
➞ Of course, Mexico does not really need to spend much money on a large military because they are an ally and because of their geographic location next to the United States. We essentially act as a deterrent for anyone who would be aggressive against Mexico.
If you look at the relationship, and who benefits the most by far and who gives the most by far, there can be no doubt that the United States is the far better neighbor than Mexico. So maybe American politicians and those supporting them should step back and try to appreciate their own country more, and not paint some romantic and unrealistic picture of Mexico.
Allowing/encouraging illegals/invaders to enter our country (USA) from/through their country (Mexico) should be treated as an act of war, an invasion if you will. We need to get tough with our neighbor to the south.
AMEN!!! Crack House and Halfway House!!!!!!
As I tell anyone who thinks about doing drugs. If you use or deal- you are a murderer. Many innocent humans die daily so your drugs can move from the field to you. SO sad.
THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO CONSIDERS MEXICANS ON US SOIL
TO BE MEXICAN CITIZENS SUBJECT TO THE GOVT OF MEXICO
A sworn affidavit by Mexico’s Consul General to a Texas court asserts that Mexico’s official govt policy is to
encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access our generous welfare system.
The Mexican consul’s sworn testimony to the court asserts: “My responsibilities in this position include protecting the rights and promoting the interests of my fellow Mexican nationals, and, that the main responsibility of consulates is to provide services, assistance, and protection to Mexican nationals abroad.”
A sworn affidavit by Mexico’s Consul General to a Texas court asserts that Mexico’s official govt policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access our generous welfare system The Mexican consul’s sworn testimony asserts: “My responsibilities in this position include protecting the rights and promoting the interests of my fellow Mexican nationals, and, that the main responsibility of consulates is to provide services, assistance, and protection to Mexican nationals abroad.” A footnote states that Mexican nationality is granted to children born abroad of a Mexican born parent. IOW, anchor babies born in the US retain parents Mexican nationality. Ergo, illegals have two governments looking after their interests.....our govt subsidizing them, and the Mexican govt making sure they collect. Its time the US govt look after the interests of American citizens.
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Mexico also encourages some 100 countries to gather at their border (for a fee?).Trains teeming w/ economic
migrants from Central American countries do so w/ active participation of Mexican authorities.
There is also the terrifying possibility that all these destitute migrants have been coached by Mexican
authorities WRT getting their hands on US gravy train handouts.
Which is, in turn, owned by InBev (a Belgian/Brazilian company). Joao Castro Neves has been President/CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev (which is the North American component) since 2014.
Good fences makes good neighbors.
When was the last time you heard of a mexican tourist being put in jail for no reason, mistreated, and shaken down for money?
Mexican believe they have the right to ignore ALL of our laws.
PREACH IT!!!!
BOTH parties have been inviting them here for 30 years thanks to their bipartisan policy of non-enforcement.
The Bush Plan for North Mexico is still supported by a majority of GOP Senators and Congressmen.
We MUST remove the Bush League Republicans from office while we still have a country.
I had a client from Bolivia who decided to drive home through Mexico. He figured that being Hispanic, there would not be a problem. Wrong! He returned after the police in Mexico stole the wheels from his car and offered to “get them back” for a bribe. It was the final straw in an endless series of humiliations south of the border.
I’ve known many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans that I think very highly of. Many others seem to be normal people trying to make a living. There are millions of native-born US Americans, I would be thrilled to exchange for Mexicans.
But let’s not be coy — the current situation transcends “bad neighbor”. As a national entity, Mexico is an enemy of the United States. We all know the litany of crimes and misconduct and needn’t rehearse it. The “government” of Mexico is merely the head of a hyper-corrupt anaconda that exists to milk its populace and the US.
If North Korea or Iran invaded our country in the millions, committed hundreds of thousands of crimes, clogged up our courts and jails, overwhelmed our schools, distorted our domestic politics, and sucked $350 billion out of our economy annually, everyone would demand immediate action. Because “we” need cheap labor to drive wages down so that “globalization” can make enrich a wealthy elite at the expense of American workers, as well as enrich US drug traffickers, we tolerate Mexico as a “failed state” right on our border. The only idea on the table is to spend billions building a wall (which will be worthless unless we also wall off the coasts, air, and borders of our southwestern and Pacific states). Mexico is ahead of us in the race to total corruption, but the US is catching up.
The problem is Mexico, not Mexicans in general.
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The reason Mexico is the way it is, is because it’s full of Mexicans.
Mexican culture comes from Mexicans.
Mexico isn’t a Neighbor it’s a parasite.
Chicago on steroids, writ national.
I do not drink so I did not know.
Hmmm.....more destruction from within USA?
Made by a brewery owned by Anheuser Busch
The operating system of that country is European oligarchs, and Catholicism blanched in socialism. Both are serious retrograde forces in a society.
Mexico isn’t particularly good to Americans. I was acquainted with someone who adopted a Mexican child. Instead of being appreciative that this child would have a good future, the government had so many requirements, obstacles, fees, and the process was so drawn out, that the couple ended up renting a house down there because of the frequent trips they had to make to meet with the lawyers, social workers, birth mother, etc.
I suppose the above can be excused as protecting the child. But really bad things happen like Americans getting injured but not getting treatment until the hospital is paid upfront. Or Americans being victimized by crimes, tainted alcohol, faulty equipment, which sometimes result in death, and which are covered up.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/mexico-blackouts/2018/04/11/travel-companies-fail-warn-tourists-risks-mexico/495145002/
http://mexicovacationawareness.com/
I wish I could visit Mexico as I have done in my youth. It used to be nice to be able to visit a foreign country so nearby, enjoy the food, music, scenery, etc. But I think it’s way too risky now.
#Mexicoisash*thole
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This isn’t new or limited to Sweden. It's happening globally by economic migrants eager to cash in. Sweden, once among the safest of nations, is changing with the recent decades’ massive influx of Third World Muslim migrants ... even left-leaning Politico had to admit in April that Sweden is “increasingly associated with a rising number of Islamic State recruits, bombings and hand grenade attacks.” ... “no-go zones,” Muslim-dominated areas in which Sharia law has .. supplanted civil law and where authorities may be reluctant to tread.
Earlier this year when the mother of Europe’s mass Muslim migration herself, German Chancellor Angela (let em all in) Merkel, admitted that no-go zones exist. (Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
I find Desertrino’s post #36 very interesting. Just look at Mexican tv here in the US. All the beautiful girls are blonde.
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