Mexico enforcement—should be done, convenient for us given our governmental paralysis, but we shouldn’t have to depend on them nor should we have to club them economically.
Hmmm, national guard stopping illegal alien invaders at the border. What a concept. Perhaps we could learn something from Mexico.
Mexico’s President understands one simple truth: if the US border ever gets shut down, even for a day or two, the Mexican economy is hooped.
Why? Mexico exports a lot of produce, that depends on rapid delivery. If it’s held, it spoils and everything is ruined - making it unsellable. Similarly, a lot of Mexico’s manufacturing facilities - especially cars - depend on just-in-time deliveries to keep operating. If the J-I-T flow is interrupted, the whole manufacturing process is totally hooped, and for a lot longer than just a few days.
So considering all that, it would be idiotic NOT to do what the US wants. Big Media & Mexican politicians can whine all they want about crackdowns, there’s much bigger forces at work here