Mexico Is Not Really an American Friend
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
1/20/2023 11:47:26 AM
Left-wing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently praised a visiting Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States—40 million who were born here in Mexico, [or] who are the children of people who were born in Mexico!”
Why wouldn’t Obrador be delighted? Since Biden took office in January 2021, America has allowed some 5-6 million illegal entries across its southern border.
Obrador further congratulated the malleable Biden whom he apparently sees as a kindred but complacent left-wing spirit: “You are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built even one meter
Reply 1 - Posted by:
rytwng 1/20/2023 11:52:02 AM (No. 1383251)
Really? Cut off all aid to Meheeco.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
msjena 1/20/2023 12:10:03 PM (No. 1383279)
Mexico knows that its citizens who immigrate here, legally or not, send a lot of money back to Mexico. It saves them the trouble of having to improve their own economy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
msjena 1/20/2023 12:13:12 PM (No. 1383287)
^^ Also, the government recoups a lot of that money through its value added tax.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/20/2023 12:16:19 PM (No. 1383291)
Years ago I made several trips to Mexico to different resorts in Puerto Vallarta and Playa del Carmen. That ended about 15 years ago. I won’t spend any more money there, and it’s too dangerous to go back.
Mexico has all the resources it needs to become a wonderful place. But, absent the rule of law, private property rights and a smaller government, it will never happen.
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#2 - And we make it easy. The taxpayer-supported US Postal Service has a program called Dinero Seguro that allows low-cost wire transfers to banks in about a dozen Latin American countries.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jasmine 1/20/2023 1:57:27 PM (No. 1383373)
Mexico isn't alone in exploiting the United States to achieve a globalist agenda. Look at our own politicians on the left. The redistribution of American wealth to imported, impoverished illegal alien arrivals from around the world is a quick and dirty way to impose the globalist will on the United States. As we all know, the world has a wondrous, self-appointed "select group of human beings" intent on "saving the planet" while decreasing the "wealth gap" in which other, less select folks (middle class Americans) will be forced to participate. Not through any kind of legislation or democratic process, mind you. Instead, it was Joe Biden's unlikely election that led directly to his leaving our borders open to the world on his first day in office. The voice of citizens has been systematically drowned out, with the help of social media's speech police, the MSM, and preposterous but endless false narratives amplified by corrupted agencies inside our own government.
Donald Trump used his power as president to put the American people and their interests first. After two years of the Biden administration, the difference in their priorities is painfully clear. Donald Trump stands with Americans. Biden stands with globalists and non-citizens willing to exploit our nation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/20/2023 2:10:31 PM (No. 1383383)
In the offshore oil industry I once had to get a work permit for Mexico. It took over 3 weeks. Then I had to get an entry on arrival. There was nobody at the border entry and I had to track down somebody who could give me an "entry" stamp. The catch is going out. You want to leave, you have an entry stamp or pay a fine.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 1/20/2023 2:18:56 PM (No. 1383390)
Mexico loves America, a significant proportion of their economy is dependent on illegal immigration. Not the billions of dollars the cartels rake in for drug smuggling and human trafficking, but the hundreds of billions of dollars illegal workers in the US send back to Mexico each year. If the US put a 15% tax on Western Union money transfers to Mexico we could balance our budget . If the flow of US illegals US dollar transfers to Mexico were interrupted Mexico's economy would be in free fall.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/20/2023 2:34:27 PM (No. 1383400)
The solution is so obvious, I'm amazed nobody has mentioned it. We should counter-invade Mexico and annex them, taxing them to death, just like our government taxes us to death. Once they get a taste of Democrat-cy, they'll never try crossing that border again. As a bonus, we'll get cheap labor, oil, and awesome salsa. They'll get a lesson they'll never forget.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/20/2023 2:36:53 PM (No. 1383402)
Knew that when one of their Presidents said the Mexican border should extend all the way up to Colorado. Work with Mexico, but don't trust them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/20/2023 4:28:54 PM (No. 1383455)
Someday the USA will awaken and find that there are more people of Mexican origin, who were either born in Mexico, or who were born to Mexican people residing in parts of what is now the Southwestern USA, and that because the Mexican origin population there outnumbers every other demographic group there, Mexico will be in the United Nations demanding that part of the Southwestern USA must be returned to Mexican sovereignty. History will call that a silent invasion.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Speedy2 1/20/2023 5:25:52 PM (No. 1383484)
Mexico is our enemy. Mexico profits from the drug trade.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/20/2023 8:49:14 PM (No. 1383600)
It amazes me why American and Canadian tourists flock to Mexico for a VaCay.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/20/2023 11:33:08 PM (No. 1383671)
I never thought that they were.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 1/21/2023 5:19:32 AM (No. 1383697)
"President Biden, thank you for being a spineless wimp who refuses to enforce America' immigration laws. Due to your cowardice, I can ship millions of unemployed Mexicans to your country and then reap the benefit of all the money they send back to Mexico. Additionally, you keep the cartels happy by making them rich through drugs and human trafficking, so I don't have to deal with them. Keep up the good work, amigo."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 1/21/2023 5:46:35 AM (No. 1383711)
Wow! What a revelation. I grew up 4.5 miles from the San Diego-Tijuana border in the 60's and early 70's and knew that then. Staunch the money flow to Mexico and you'll see how fast they'll slow the illegals. Worked for Trump.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/21/2023 6:26:57 AM (No. 1383725)
I trust you're surprised by that revelation...Mexico has NEVER been a friend of the US only a parasitic neighbor!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/21/2023 7:08:43 AM (No. 1383746)
NO ONE is America’s friend. Not even those who have usurped our Government and rule us.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/21/2023 8:37:03 AM (No. 1383807)
Never has been, never will be. Finish the wall, line it with troops and start the mass deportation process. We can make our own Corona.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/21/2023 8:40:17 AM (No. 1383812)
Countries don't have friends - only interests. Charles DeGaulle
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/21/2023 9:50:26 AM (No. 1383895)
Nikita Khrushchev was a better neighbor to the USA than Obrador has been. But from Khrushchev we expected ill treatment and nothing good, EVER.
I miss President Trump.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/21/2023 11:24:32 AM (No. 1384039)
Never visited Mexico...nor do I ever plan to...they are corrupt and the cartel is running everything....the only one who scared the crap out of them...was President Trump...MAGA!!
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Who the hell EVER thought that Mexico was an ally ? They have been an enemy at worst, neutral at best and eternally a country that dumps its worst people into this country
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
NotaBene 1/21/2023 12:30:18 PM (No. 1384089)
We should not blame Mexico for the ruination of the USA by our Marxist Democrat Party.
There is a saying down there: Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.
Here in Los Angeles only Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, work with their hands. Nothing would get done without them, so there’s that.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 1/21/2023 9:18:35 PM (No. 1384330)
Never were our friends the Alamo, Mexican American War, Pancho Villa 1916, Drugs , Illegal immigrants, open border. When will we wake up!
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