Guest Post by Victor Davis Hanson
Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President 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 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 of wall.”
Translated that means Mexico is delighted the United States now cares little about the security of its border, the disappearance of which is wonderful news for Mexico.
Note that Mexico itself facilitates illegal transits across its southern border – as long as such Central American and other global migrants keep heading northward into the United States.
But when or if they pause, try to stay in Mexico, commit crimes, or expect Mexican social services, then almost immediately Mexico City sends thousands of troops to close its border with Guatemala, deports the illegal crossers, and revives talk of building a border wall of its own.
Biden has demolished America’s southern border. His illegal nullification of U.S. immigration law is music to Obrador’s ears.
But it is a nightmare to Americans who poll overwhelming disapproval of the subversion of their border security. They are exhausted by the influx of death-dealing drugs. And they are furious over the hundreds of billions of dollars diverted from their strapped social services to attend to the needs of foreign nationals who have broken their laws.
Even overwhelmed blue sanctuary cities that once boasted of nullifying federal immigration law are now beginning to object to Biden’s complicity in Mexico’s manipulation of the border.
Obrador is delighted that Biden is the first White House occupant who in matters of the shared southern border grants all of Mexico’s wishes, but almost none of his citizens.
That reality raises the question that if Mexico were a declared enemy of the United States, how would it behave any differently than it is now?
Take drugs, for example. American overdoses due to fentanyl and other opioids are nearing 100,000 deaths per year.
Almost all such lethal opiates are manufactured in factories operated by drug cartels in Mexico that enjoy de facto immunity from prosecution. The Mexican opioid industry was designed solely for lucrative export to the United States – with zero concern over the death and destruction its products cause here.
Well aside from human trafficking and smuggling, cartel drugs indirectly earn the Mexican economy somewhere between $35-45 billion each year.
A hostile China profits by selling Mexicans the raw product. Beijing gains satisfaction that at the present death rate, more Americans will perish this decade alone from imported Mexican drugs than all the combat deaths in all the wars since America’s founding.
In that sense, Mexico is doing more damage to America than all our prior enemies combined.
Obrador is equally callous in bragging that he exports his own poor. Left unsaid is that a naturally rich Mexico either will not, or cannot, adequately employ, feed, shelter, and protect its impoverished citizens.
So instead, it cynically sees its people as a lucrative export commodity while holding U.S. laws in veritable contempt.
Currently, Mexican nationals are sending nearly $60 billion a year in remittances from the United States to Mexico to aid friends and families who do not find enough succor from their government in Mexico City. Untaxed remittances far and away constitute the largest source of Mexico’s foreign exchange income.
Much of that gifting is made possible by generous American state and federal subsidies to illegal aliens. Frequent subsidized housing, healthcare, legal assistance, education, and food in the United States are often used to free up cash for illegals, who then send it to Mexico.
Mexico sees this export of its people as a win-win-win-win proposition.
Illegal immigration to America exempts Mexico from covering the social welfare costs of its poorest.
In safety-valve fashion, it exports the volatility of social inequality rather than spending large sums to address it.
Mexico sees its huge and growing expatriate community as a valuable lobbying lever inside America, given the longer Mexican nationals are absent from Mexico, the more they romanticize the country they fled.
Finally, Mexico is a left-wing nation. The more it sends its poor to the United States, the more it feels Democratic politicians who grant concessions to Mexico will gain valuable new political constituents – ensuring still further concessions.
One sure sign of historic national decline is the collective inability of a government and its people to defend their borders and national sovereignty.
Mexico would happily agree.
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It’s not Mexico’s job to be America’s friend. Mexico is supposed to look out for Mexico, and the US is supposed to look out for the US. And while we’re at it, Taiwan should look out for itself and Ukraine should have looked out for itself. And Israel should look out for itself – which I’m sure they are doing.
Also, anybody squawking about an “international rules-based order” should shove it up their ass.
Just like the US Founders said.
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Ukraine tried to look after itself, so in 2014 their government was overthrown.
Mexico is looking out for themselves by sending their poor, ignorant masses to get on the US welfare system and send money back home.
This country is fucked.We are fucked.
As it should be.
Karma for all those that this country has fucked.
Why should they (or we) be?
Let’s be wary neighbors and careful trade partners, with walls, fences, cameras, armed men, and tense, reserved, polite convo.
It’s called being a grownup.
Biden, Trudeau and AMLO just signed the ‘Declaration of North America’ to put our countries under globalist control and steal our autonomy.
Love me some Nige.
Better question, Mr. Boomer…why are not Biden and Congress declared enemies of the US, since they’re refusing to put a stop to this influx of ignorant peasants and child traffickers?
And Soros.
And globalist Gates, with no national loyalty, buying up our farmland.
We give $100 billion to depraved crook Zelenskyy, but won’t spend a few billion to protect Americans…
Redeploy the marines in Okinawa to the Tex-Mex border. No additional cost – save on the boats and amphibious vehicles, even. Truck in supplies from nearby, not thousands of air and sea miles. Rotate them home every other week to tickle their kids and see their wives.
We don’t need no stinkin wall. We need to stop inviting them here by offering them money, healthcare and housing.
Exactly what Ron Paul wanted: a legislative wall.
several years ago someone put up a short history of mexico that showed that they have not been a country 4 very long & that they have not been abused by the us as they like to claim —
if someone still has that post please throw it up here —
i have a bunch of tenants in my park that have been let in to the us by biden & who were in camps in mexico under trump’s remain in mexico policy —
the new people coming across,esp the families,are learning to rapidly work the system –they are also receiving id & drivers licenses —
Maybe it is time to raise the rent😲
off topic but it is new mexico related —
alec baldwin is being charged w/involuntary manslaughter 4 that shooting on the movie set in new mexico —
the armorer got the same charges —
5 years max,i’d guess a plea & a large fine plus a couple of months in the pokey —
or, time served. None served? Get the idea?
Uhhh … listen closely for this is major truth ===> America has NO “friends’!!!
What we have can be best described as “transactional relationships”. They can, and do, change at a whim … whether or not there are signed treaties, agreements, whatever.
America keeps NO promises. Putin has finally realized this since the SMO. The rest of the world is slowly but surely coming to the same conclusion.
I wonder if this is WHY the Saudi’s announced they would start taking oil contracts in other currencies now. Looks like the petrodollar trudgen is about to be nullified.
The majority of Americans have a negative opinion of SA. The Saudi leadership knows this.
Our own State Dept. has called out SA as a terrorist nation … albeit not officially. The Sauds know this.
American politicians and MSM constantly criticize SA for their public executions, treatment of women, being anti-homo, etc. The Sauds know this.
If there was no oil in Saudi Arabia, I’m fairly sure we would consider them an enemy nation. The Sauds know this.
We give their (((arch enemy))) billions in military aid every year … and if there ever was a war between SA and (((them))), we would wholeheartedly side with (((THEM))). The Sauds know this.
These are some of the Big Reasons the Sauds don’t like us. Russia does none of the above. So, why not be best friends with them instead? Makes sense to me.
The Ees-ra-aylees and the Saudis are currently allies against Iran. Too many fail to see the Kabuki these two play over time. Now, they are having the “love my long lost cousins” routine because it benefits both. When it does not benefit both we go back to the “you are infidels,” and “you are terrorists” routine.
I also see no problem with having good relations with Russia.
Getting played just like Egypt and India used to do to America courtesy of gullible American politicians.
New article by Pepe Escobar on the Saker —- “global south gold backed currencies to replace the us dollar”
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https://thesaker.is/global-south-gold-backed-currencies-to-replace-the-us-dollar/
With Escobar as messenger, reminds me of old Russian Baba saying: “Everything he told us about American capitalism was true, but everything said about communism was a lie.” Oh well, we beggars (for real journalism) can’t be choosers.
* real=non-MSM
AMLO is maximizing the well-being of his people. Our Uniparty- not so much.
Eventually politicians and other promoters of mass illegal immigration will be seen as traitors. They will be prosecuted even if their acts occurred decades prior.
I recall how, when Trump was elected, one of the first things the government of mexico did was to send about $50 million to various NGOs here in the United States to fight the deportation of their people back to mexico …
Furthermore, mexican government officials admitted that they do not want their own people back in mexico for 3 very real and practical reasons: they have no job skills; they’re illiterate even in spanish and will be a drain on mexico’s finances; they will likely turn to lives of crime in mexico.
What a surprise — they do all 3 of those things here in the United States … and there are already more than 65,000,000 of them here … that’s about 20% of the entire United States population …
VDH, Heather McDonald, and a third author wrote a book about 12 years ago that highlighted all kinds of ways Mexico has fucked us.
I always thought of Mexico as a really weak, lazy enemy. Like that sketchy neighbor no one trusts.
Mexico is America’s greatest parasite.
Except possibly for the blue in the face people.
You missed ‘our friend and ally’ in the Middle East … mexico is small potatoes compared with israel — on so many counts …
Because of illegal immigration, the US is no longer a sovereign country.
That’s just one piece of that nonsense … when Trump’s predecessor put US under the boot of the UN and other foreign NGOs, our sovereignty effectively ended — and Joe Bidet and our Congress is about to make it even worse by subjecting US to the WHO and the global health authority it’s trying to secure for itself.
And, of course, without all of those things — with just the destruction of our Constitution and our Bill of Rights — we’ve lost more than our Sovereignty — we’ve been stripped of our National History, our National Culture, our National Identity … all by design of those pushing cultural and other marxism upon US …
Es un honor estar con Obrador.