Posted on 01/30/2025 4:00:19 AM PST by texas booster
After years of U.S. appeasement, Mexico exploits open borders, drug trade, and remittances—it's time for America to enforce real consequences and reclaim control.
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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These billions are often subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. America’s local, state, and federal governments provide billions of dollars in food, housing, and health care entitlements that allow Mexico’s citizens, illegally residing inside the U.S., to free up the cash to be sent home.
According to U.S. census data, almost every year, the trade deficit with Mexico has increased from about $50 billion twenty years ago to $160 billion today.
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?
Lots of good ideas from the article from Prof Hanson.
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If you’re proud of a failed criminal country, then you’re proud of Mehico.
irrelavent?
Mexico is like America’s Ex-wife.
yep
clearly Mexico is our enemy. Trump should treat it as such.
Mexico has a lot of border factories that all depend on an open border.
They all use just-in-time delivery systems, so all Pres. Trump has to do is shut the border for just 1 day.
That will totally mess up the JIT system, and get Mexico’s full attention ... GA-RON-TEED!
“If you’re proud of a failed criminal country, then you’re proud of Mehico.”
It’s where a lot of motor vehicle parts are made.
Mexico could easily shut down the Big Three.
The Big Three have about 150,000 UAW members altogether.
About one million Mexicans work in Mexico in the motor vehicle industry.
It would also get Congress’ “full attention ... GA-RON-TEED!”
Mexico is a parasite state full of bandidos. Without the United States, Mexico would be a third world dump. They would have no economy and no money. PERIOD!
“Se estima que anualmente hay alrededor de 3 millones de entradas ilegales en los Estados Unidos: la mayoría de los migrantes entran clandestinamente en camiones que pasan la frontera, si bien se han observado casos en que los viajes se han hecho a pie, por ferrocarril o incluso por túneles especiales.”
https://www.unodc.org/toc/es/crimes/migrant-smuggling.html
The UN estimated about three million a year were (and still might be) coming across, mainly in trucks.
She’s a high-maintenance biatch. The U.S. keeps that country going.
Mexico has always been an ally in name only.
For 70 years, the PRI party ran the country.
The PRI was closely tied to the soviet union.
The kgb’s second largest spy base was in Mexico City disquised as the soviet embassy.
Countries don’t have friends or enemies, they only have interests. And currently Mexico’s interests and our own don’t line up. Which should cause a reassessment of the relationship.
CC
Mexico is a pathetic, failed, narco-state due to its corruption. It should be one of the wealthiest countries on Earth, yet our politicians try to convince us we can’t live without their slave labor. Worthless parasites.
Actually, Mexico is, believe or not, a quite rich country. Average Mexican still lives above the average citizen of the Earth. It is just that US is soo well off, that the contract is so big.
They have problems - socialist policies of PRI since “Mexican revolution” turned the country into corrupt, dirty dump. But lately, they have improved. So, most recent US immigrants are NOT Mexicans, by majority.
Actually, they have been also flooded by illegal aliens and they have trying to stop the flow. Mexican immigration is quite rough and they actively patrol their southern Border.
The cartels have been fought for years, there were regular battles over there.
Well, there is demand in the US for drugs and cheap labor with causes. IF US cannot control it’s border, do not expect Mexico to do it all!
We need to engage Mexico, kind of like good cop, bad cop - help where help is needed - control our border and control the Narco flow, and force them to do more.
I think Trump is doing the right thing - control our border AND encourage Mexico to do more on their side. Their politicians need some “encouragement” and excuse to put their effort where needed.
I would not say Mexico is enemy, probably not too much a friend either. Strong, but balanced approach is what is needed. Just calling them names as I see here, is not right, try to see the other side of the border too.
Mexico is by far our single biggest trading partner. An unbelievable number of products we produce rely on low tech subassemblies from Mexico.
If the country is s#!t, you must remit...............
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