Mexican immigrants, good gang members, lately crossed the border and shot and wounded an American traveler. Did people assume Joe Biden was still in office and that this would leave Americans with a real open winter without consequences?
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Mexico also just objected to allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, bringing back its own citizens who had been detained as illegal aliens.
Was it assumed that Alejandro Mayorkas was still the Homeland Security Secretary and that he was working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens may remain in the country continuously?
After four years of easing with Biden, Mexico appears to believe it has a right to encourage the illegal entry of millions of its own underprivileged people into the United States and that it can quickly expedite the passage of millions of Latin Americans across our borders.
Mexico either cannot or will not target the billions of dollars in natural fentanyl products that are imported from China, which are then routed through its cartel across a subterranean border for processing for export to the United States.
Mexico seems unconcerned that on average 75, 000 American pass away from largely Mexican-imported morphine each year, more deaths than all Americans did during World Wars I, World Wars II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. In addition, Mexico seems to be concerned that about 75, 000 of these deaths occur annually. Who then is our friend, and who is our army?
This astronomical death toll is attributable in large part to organizations ‘ willful efforts to disguise fentanyl as less dangerous narcotics or conceal it by turning it into fake prescription medications.
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Mexico encourages its illegal alien expatriates to return$ 63 billion in remittances annually. That great total constitutes one of Mexico’s largest sources of international trade, surpassing yet its holiday and oil revenues.
These trillions are usually subsidized by U. S. citizens. America’s native, state, and federal governments provide billions of dollars in meals, accommodation, and health care rights that allow Mexico’s people, illegally residing inside the U. S., to open up the cash to be sent house.
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.
That astronomical figure does not include the multi-billion dollar profits generated by the cartels ‘ illicit drug sales in the United States or the$ 63 billion in remittances that were sent to the United States.
Although one would never hear it from the language of Latino politicians, the whole Mexican economy, both legitimate and unlawful, hinges on America accepting a worsening irregular relationship.
However, the United States has a lot of leverage with Mexico to prevent it from maintaining a lasting, large trade deficit with the United States, blinds itself to large fentanyl shipments that cause the deaths of thousands of Americans, encourages its own citizens to enter their friend’s nation illegally, and relies on large cash transfers from the United States.
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Loud language, dangers, and threats do no work.
Often, they earn Mexico’s angry replies about Yanqui colonialism and old sorrow about a lost Aztlan.
Former Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hailed the thousands of illegal immigrants who were residing in the country. He also advised foreigners to vote against Republicans, who he believed might eventually near the borders.
Trump only speculated as to why millions of people in his own nation were fleeing their own country because it was a “beautiful” thing they did.
Obrador criticized President Donald Trump more for trying to stop the illegal immigration than Joe Biden for embarrassing him by welcoming millions of people into the United States.
But, what should be the U. S. reaction to Mexico’s passive-aggressive plans?
Mexico glamorizes and lauds us as our most important trading partner before slowly letting them know that illegal aliens are headed for the frontier.
Once there, they could be given a good treatment item, taken through a frontier entrance, and left on the Mexican area where they had already walked, and then proceed to the caravans house in the same manner as they did when they arrived.
To maintain cordial relations and politely gain Mexico’s attention, we need a radical change in tone and action beyond just ending catch-and-release, finishing the wall, and making refugee status requests possible only in the home country of the applicant.
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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?
We might also be able to applaud our mutual friendship before reluctantly imposing tariffs on imported assembled goods until the two-way trade is roughly balanced.
Who knows that Mexico might once more become a good, reciprocal friend of the United States once the country is once again revered and not treated like a burden.
