A View from Mexico, by Fred Reed

It’s not up to Mexico to “do something” about the border with the U.S. From Fred Reed at fredoneverything.org:

We south of the border hear considerable rumbling and grumbling about things we frijjoleros, genuine and only sort of, do that set poorly in the north. Well, yes and no. A few reflections.

In 1965 the United States, not Mexico, changed the immigration laws, apparently to encourage immigration from the south. What other reason could there have been?  Why else would you change laws that successfully prevented the influx to laws that encouraged such? Having thus asked for a mass ingress, it seems odd for America to complain that it got one.

Odd. In America there is much anger at the ingress that America invited and its government protects. Why doesn’t Mexico do something about it? A Mexican might ask why it is Mexico’s duty to protect America’s borders when America purposely won’t. Open borders are an American, not a Mexican, policy.

Yes, most Americans want to end the flood. Yet the federal government–that is, America–as a matter of national policy, maintains the frontier open. For example, as I write Washington forbids Texas to use barbed wire to stop the influx. This is official policy. From a Mexican point of view, America’s refusal to protect its borders is a major problem as it draws immigrants from all of Latin America, no favor, and then Mexico has to put up with America’s anger at Mexico’s failure to do what America should do for itself.

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One response to “A View from Mexico, by Fred Reed

  1. Don’t they have a wall up along Guatemala?

    Some debate in the search results but it says Barry Obama gave them $75 million in 2016 to build one.

    NMP (not my problem) is right and why would they interfere as the FUSA self-immolates.

    Pappy escaped to South East Asia because he felt more at home there and warned that it won’t be ending well here.

    101st Airborne Ranger training he has and made it work there, I can’t bail out on family during the Fundamental Transformation.

    Early AM walk featured rowdy party at local clubhouse and there was no English music or language with trash strewn everywhere.

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