The international company for whom I work has a production facility in Tijuana. Job turnover there is quite rapid as there are a lot of opportunities to work in Tijuana. Central American refugees are welcome to apply with only two requirements (a)the equivalent of an 8th grade education and (b)a willingness to work.
Almost none do so. Why do you suppose that is?
I've been watching this for thirty years now. I've worked in the home building industry as well as the health care field.
Mexicans were the first to figure out that they didn't need to work. They learned that if enough of them used multiple ids and crammed into a single house they could have at a minimum half a dozen welfare benefit accounts. The more enterprising among them would work off the books while their baby mamas got welfare all the while sucking the American taxpayer dry. Seems some people here have short memories. I don't. I know damn well what Mexico has been doing for the last three decades here. Flooding into our communities, waving their damned buzzard rag flag, demanding everything under the sun and having no shortage of Americans for a number of selfish interests willing to be their advocates. Now Mexico has been threatened by an American president with balls that if they don't stop these cockroaches from coming in here there will be a price to pay. Screw Mexico.
Trump is busting balls.
“Imagine Mexico doing this with ANY OTHER U.S. President in the oval office. I can’t.”
Only about 8% of the US GDP relies on trade. A huge percentage of that is trade with Mexico. Although the US could get along fine without Mexico, the reverse is not true. Trump knows when he has the winning hand and he’s not afraid to use it. (God! I LOVE that man!) On the other hand, he hasn’t beggared his opponents. He has made them a good deal and they know it.