[Pilsner]

Why isn't rampant racism of this kind condemmed by the lamestream media?

This has very little to do with these folks being Americans, and very much to do with them being (I assume) of European origin. The peasants in that part of Mexico are direct and usually unmixed descendants of the various indigenous tribes that lived there before the Spanish arrived. They view Europeans and people of European origin as land stealing interlopers, and have for the past 484 years.

Any knowledgable wealthy Mexican would not to buy a rancho in Chiapas unless he also had the money to hire armed guards and the political clout to see that they had machine guns.

Lesson? Make sure you know what the h#&@ you are doing before you buy a bunch of "cheap" land in some foreign place and move there.

[theiamons]

So An American couple cant buy land and live in Mexico, But Mexicans can come over here illegaly and we can do nothing about it? Half the employees in the warehouse that I work for are illegal mexicans and they say I can do nothing...

[SauronOfMordor]

Any knowledgable wealthy Mexican would not to buy a rancho in Chiapas unless he also had the money to hire armed guards and the political clout to see that they had machine guns.

Lesson: You "own" property only to the extent that you have the right to defend it against anyone who might want to take it, or have a reliable entity who will defend it for you. If somebody can walk over and take it without consequence, you don't own it.

One of the reasons for the Second Amendment