I’ve often wondered why a country like Mexico has such a chronic problem with its people wanting to leave their homes and families. After all, such a move must be a life-changing event, even under the best of circumstances.
Mexico has so much to offer: the Caribbean and the Yucatan resorts, the Pacific beaches. All compare favorably with the best California, Florida, and the Mediterranean have to offer. Proven oil reserves put them among the top 5 oil producers in the world. They raise enough beef and grow enough produce to export around the world, many things which can’t be grown in the US. Same for minerals: copper, silver, gold, etc. But they remain a 3rd-world hellhole of a nation because they effectively have no middle class.
If the citizens would revolt and once and for all throw off their oppressors–not the Gringo to el Norte–they could and would have a first-world nation. As it is, the 4 or 5 families that own most of the land, control most of the money, treat the peasants like property and don’t invest a peso into infrastructure like schools, hospitals, clean water, highways, etc. perpetuate the crisis. They literally bank on the remittances of their expatriate workers, while publishing pamphlets on how and where to sneak across the border. Every other week we have a march of some sort on the capitol mall in Phoenix by Hispanic mobs protesting the latest indignity. I’d be curious to know the number of agents provocateur, supported by the Mexican Gov’t, who are among them.
