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Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« on: June 26, 2018, 11:38:32 pm »
National Review
Victor Davis Hanson
June 26, 2018

Mexico gets a massive cash influx in remittances, American corporations get cheap labor, Democrats get voters . . .

Mexico in just a few days could elect one of its more anti-American figures in recent memory, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Obrador has often advanced the idea that a strangely aggrieved Mexico has the right to monitor the status of its citizens living illegally in the United States. Lately, he trumped that notion of entitlement by assuring fellow Mexicans that they have a “human right” to enter the United States as they please. For Obrador, this is an innate privilege that he promised “we will defend” — without offering any clarification on the meaning of “defend” other than to render meaningless the historic notion of borders and sovereignty.

Obrador went on to urge his fellow Mexicans to “leave their towns and find a life in the United States.” He has naturally developed such a mindset because he assumes as normal what has become, by any fair standard, a historically abnormal relationship.

More... https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/mexico-what-went-wrong-economy-based-on-exporting-poor-people/
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2018, 12:09:42 am »
And as they kick Central Americans out of their country en masse.

But the history of Mexico is a series of pre-Columbian empires that centered around human sacrifice and other creepy stuff, so there is something in the psyche.
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2018, 12:12:59 am »
The only thing wrong with Mexico is that it is full of Mexicans.
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2018, 12:31:13 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 27, 2018, 12:12:59 am
The only thing wrong with Mexico is that it is full of Mexicans.

You stole my post.
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2018, 12:32:48 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on June 27, 2018, 12:31:13 am
You stole my post.

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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2018, 05:26:57 am »
I think we need to put the military along the entire length of the border.  Especially if this guy wins which it looks like he may.  Armed military.  Step a foot here and we shoot.
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2018, 06:26:44 am »
Quote from: Chosen Daughter on June 27, 2018, 05:26:57 am
I think we need to put the military along the entire length of the border.  Especially if this guy wins which it looks like he may.  Armed military.  Step a foot here and we shoot.

90% of Canadians live within 100 miles (that's like 42% within 123 kilograms for the cheeseaters)  of the US border. 
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2018, 03:39:11 pm »
Imagine a politician here running and encouraging citizens to leave, lol
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2018, 04:04:33 pm »
Quote from: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on June 27, 2018, 06:26:44 am
90% of Canadians live within 100 miles (that's like 42% within 123 kilograms [bkilometres[/b] for the cheeseaters)  of the US border.
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2018, 08:52:07 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 27, 2018, 03:39:11 pm
Imagine a politician here running and encouraging citizens to leave, lol
If they thought that those leaving would then send billions of dollars back, they just might.
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Re: Mexico — What Went Wrong?
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2018, 09:13:25 pm »
Quentin Tarantino had this one covered: "If my answers frighten you, then you should cease asking scary questions."
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