# 2 OF 2 MEXICO- WHAT WENT WRONG?

MEXICO - WHAT WENT WRONG? 2 OF 2 

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - JULY 5/18

    This is the second classic letter in the pursuit of the truth. Victor Davis Hanson, "Mexico - What Went Wrong?" June 26, 2018 - (Reference the writer on the Drudge Report)

    "Why the U.S. government does not tax remittances and why it does not prohibit foreign nationals on public assistance from sending cash out of the country are some of the stranger phenomena of the entire strange illegal-immigration matrix.

    There may now be anywhere from 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. America open border is the keystone of Mexican foreign and domestic policy. For all practical purposes, Mexico City alone modulates the flow of both Mexican and Central American citizens into the United States - depending on its current attitude toward the U.S.

    Mexico plays the same role with the United States that North African countries play with Europe, except in the former's case. it has a deliberate rather than chaotic emigration policy - and uses it as direct leverage over the U.S. Mexico's sense of immigration entitlement is predicated on the assumption that corporate America wants cheap labor, that liberal America wants voters, that identity-politics activists need constituents, that a liberal elite expresses its abstract virtue by its patronization of the Other - and that until recently most Americans were indifferent.

    Conservatives, who object to waves of illegal aliens swarming the border, earn boilerplate slurs that they are cruel, racist, nativist, xenophobic, selfish, and anti-humanitarian. Open-borders liberals, who once expressed opposition to illegal immigration, take their cues from the concrete recent record showing that almost all impoverished immigrants fuel progressive agendas of big government, redistribution, and entitlements that otherwise have run out of gas.

    Exporting human capital - most illegal Mexican immigrants are now from southern Mexican and indigenous people - has long acted as a political safety valve for the Mexican and indigenous  people - has long acted as a political safety valve for the Mexican government..... Certainly, there appears to be little real self-reflection in Mexico about how and why such a naturally rich country - blessed with good soil, climate, natural resources, ports, and a strategic geography - remains so dismally poor.

    Illegal immigration provides a useful and nearly perpetual demographic for Mexico inside the U.S.A. About 12 percent of the Mexican population now lives inside  the U.S.A., the great majority illegally.... Of all U.S. immigrants, legal and not, it is estimated that more than 30 percent come from Mexico, and another quarter arrived from Central America through Mexico....

    The careers of identity-politics activists often hinge on having a permanent pool of poor, unskilled, and minimum-wage-earning constituents who need collective representation by self-appointed advocates. Without illegal immigration, Chicano or La Raza studies would in a few years resonate about as much as a Polish-or Italian-studies department....

     The existential worry of both identity-politics activists and the new Democratic party is an immigration that is diverse, legal, meritorious, and measured. The second-greatest fear is return of the melting pot and the end of the salad bowl, given that assimilation, integration, and intermarriage might turn a useful bloc of Hispanics immigrants into something like 20th -century Italian immigrants, who eventually assimilated and whose politics were no longer predicable.... In one of the strangest paradoxes of the present age, Mexico seems to love its people more, the farther they are from Mexico and the longer they stay away...

Restoring Symmetry:

What might the U.S. do to restore symmetry and save Mexico from its own delusions? - 1) Control our border as carefully as Mexican policies controls its southern border. 2) Stiffen employer sanctions on hiring illegal aliens. 3) Finishing the Wall, 4) U.S. trade and commercial sanctions for Mexico for allowing transit for illegal aliens from Central America.4) A tax on remittances for the funding of the border wall. 5) It is an immoral act, not a moral one, to deliberately break the laws of a host country as one's first act on entering it. 6) A million cases a year of tax fraud through the use of fake names and identification is not just an artifact of illegal immigration, but a moral crime that callously harms U.S. citizens and their institutions.... etc. - George H. Kubeck