Joe, it is NOT the job of the American taxpayer to secure mexico’s southern border. It is mexico’s job. It si also mexico’s job to secure their northern border from transgressions, just like it is our governments job to secure our southern border from transgressions. Do you believe the border should be militarized? How much aid should we give a corrupt military that aids drug runners and violates our borders on a regular basis?
How many other nations should we give over a billion dollars to for securing their borders? And why should we put up with mexico’s president demanding we give him money with no strings attached to secure his southern border while he rails at us for wanting to secure our southern border?
My politics are extremely coherent, and because I refuse to cave to a backwards country that has shown no inkling of changing (even though I have listened to them talk about busting their corrupt system for my entire adult life) and point out that corruption is a way of life there you continue to see the validity of my points and whine.
Quick story, the year was 1987 (if memory serves) and I was loping horses at Caliente racetrack. “Loping” is a racetrack term for the act of exercising horses in the morning. I was there with my best friend, who was an apprentice jockey there at the time. He had the top agent and was riding the best horses there for the top owners, one of whom was the Tiajuana Chief of Police. After a particularly lucrative winner he rode for said Chief, the Chief invited a bunch of us out for dinner. During dinner he slipped my friend a note and said “If you have any problems with my officers, show them this note.” It was basically a get out of jail free card, and what’s more it worked for us wild and young riders quite a few times when our revelries crossed paths with the cops. I am not proud that we used that to get out of trouble, but when you are young you do stupid things. These days I would simply avoid the trouble.
Mexico is corrupt from the top down, and until they change it and stop importing their culture of corruption here, the best we can do is secure the border and stem the tide. It is their problem to repair, not ours. Now if they want to take their people home, giving us billions more a year to work with here, I can see aiding them, but at present they cost us billions just being here, and my charitable streak has run too thin to care any longer.
