MEXICO - WHAT WENT WRONG? # 1 OF 2
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - JULY 3/18
This is a classic in the pursuit of truth. Victor Davis Hanson, "Mexico - What Went Wrong?" - June 26/18 - (Reference the writers on the Drudge Report)
MEXICO IN JUST A FEW DAYS COULD ELECT ONE OF ITS MORE ANTI-AMERICAN FIGURES IN RECENT MEMORY, ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ 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 THE NOTION OF ENTITLEMENT BUY 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 TOWN AND FINED A LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES." HE HAS NATURALLY DEVELOPED SUCH A MINDSET BECAUSE HE ASSUMES AS NORMAL WHAT HAS BECOME, BY ANY STANDARD, A HISTORICALLY ABNORMAL RELATIONSHIP.
OBRADOR IS DETERMINED TO PERPETUATE, IF NOT ENHANCE, THE ASYMMETRY. IN THE AGE OF TRUMP, OBRADOR ALSO REASONS THAT THE FUROR AND HYSTERIA OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA TOWARD THE PRESIDENT REPRESENTS A MAJORITY AND A DOMESTIC GRASSROOTS PUSHBACK AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION - APPARENTLY BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S "RESTRICTIONIST" VIEW OF ENFORCING EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAW. POLLS, HOWEVER, SUGGEST OTHERWISE, DESPITE THEIR NOTORIOUS EMBEDDED ANTI-TRUMP BIAS.
MEXICO, THE AGGRESSOR:
FACTS ARE STUBBORN, AND REVEAL MEXICO, NOT THE UNITED STATES, AS A DE-FACTO AGGRESSOR AND BELLIGERENT ON MANY FRONTS. MEXICO RUNS A NAFTA-PROTECTED $70 BILLION TRADE SURPLUS WITH THE U.S. LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER SINGLE AMERICAN TRADE PARTNER (INCLUDING JAPAN AND GERMANY) EXCEPT CHINA.
THE ARCHITECTS OF NAFTA LONG AGO ASSURED AMERICANS THAT SUCH A TRADE WAR WOULD NOT BREAK OUT, OR THAT WE SHOULD NOT WORRY OVER TRADE IMBALANCES, GIVEN THE DESIRABILITY OF OUTSOURCING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MEXICO'S CHEAPER LABOR COSTS.
A SUPPOSEDLY AFFLUENT MEXICO AS SUPPOSED TO ACHIEVE NEAR PARITY WITH THE U.S., AS IMMIGRATION AND TRADE SOON NEUTRALIZED. DESPITE MEXICO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH, NO SUCH SYMMETRY HAS FOLLOWED NAFTA. WHAT DID, HOWEVER, 34 YEARS LATER; WAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL MEXICAN STATE, WHOSE DRUG CARTELS ALL BUT RUN THE COUNTRY ON THE BASIS OF THEIR ENORMOUS PROFITS FROM UNFETTERED DOPE-RUNNING AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTO THE UNITED STATES. NAFTA CERTAINLY DID NOT MAKE MEXICO A SAFER, KINDER, AND GENTLER NATION.
IN ADDITION, MEXICAN CITIZENS WHO ENTER AND RESIDE AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S. ARE MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SENDING AN APPROXIMATE $30 BILLION IN REMITTANCE HOME TO MEXICO. THAT SUM HAS NOW SURPASSED OIL AND TOURISM AS THE LARGEST SOURCE OF MEXICAN FOREIGN EXCHANGE. THAT HUGE CASH INFLUX IS THE CONCRETE REALITY BEHIND OBRADOR'S OTHERWISE UNHINGED RHETORIC ABOUT EXERCISING VETO POWER OVER U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW.
What is also unsaid is that many of the millions of Mexican expatriates in the United States who send remittances home to Mexico are themselves beneficiaries of some sort of U.S. federal, state, or local support that allows them to free up cash to send back to Mexico. When Obrador urges his fellow citizens to abandon their country and head illegally into the U.S., his primary concern is not their general welfare and futures. He seems quite unconcerned that those who send home remittances live in poverty in the United States and seek offsetting subsidies from the U.S. government to find disposable income to save the MEXICAN government from its mostly corrupt self." George H. Kubeck
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