When a border is effectively eliminated it tends to run both ways. If I were a Mexican I would be appalled at the invasion of the Norte Americanos.
There Goes the Neighborhood
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Yankee Go Home!
Not only are US food and fuel inflation horrid, US rents are waxing unaffordable.
Let’s Go Brandon!
South Park predicted this.
https://youtu.be/kakJ3zGuBVc
https://youtu.be/WqKQKrKp8DU
Only it wasn’t Trump that made America suck so bad…
I’ve got CA relatives doing somthing similar, except destination Europe. I am by no means a SJW, but have great sympathies for the locals who are getting pushed aside in their own country by ex-pat Brits and Americans who don’t speak the local lingo
Nobody wants a lot of pushy Yankees moving in an rearranging all the furniture.
Nobody.
Having until not long ago left the San Francisco Bay Area, it is not possible to communicate how monumentally condescending, annoying, self-absorbed, and pretentiously omniscient SF Bay Area woke tech people are. They know everything, even about your area of expertise, even though they’ve never studied it.
Typically they’ve never bothered to try to learn a foreign language, in this case Spanish. And having spent time in Mexico City as a Spanish speaker, it takes a lot to get under the skin of “capitalinas.” They’ve managed to do it in record time.
Supposedly, Americans account for about 3.3% of the population of greater Mexico City. Presumably, most of them are there because the head of household was assigned there by the company for which he works. I assume some of them are ill-mannered and others are having trouble learning the language, because it’s a challenge to learn a new language past the age of 14 and people are not flawless. I’m also going to assume that they aren’t adding to Mexico’s ample problem with street crime and they aren’t tossing litter everywhere. We put up with about 11 million illegal aliens in this country, about half of whom traipsed across the border with Mexico, and they bring with them a number of real problems. I’m not all ears to be subjected to Mexicans’ complaints about Americans lawfully present there and producing revenue for their retail businesses. You don’t want them there, don’t hand out the visas. Life is full of trade-offs.
Mexico’s registered immigrant population accounts for around 1.2 mill of 129 mill population. 700k from North America- some don’t live all year round. That’s not a large figure comparative to the population. The other majority is mainly from Central America and South America. Those from Central America (Guatemala and Haiti) are likely to be unregistered workers. I found it interesting that there are 400,000 Arab Mexicans (mainly Christians) who immigrated after WW1. They seemed to have assimilated into Mexican life. Agree with Art Deco that American immigration to Mexico is the least of Mexico’s worries. The drug cartels are their biggest headache. Along with poverty, government corruption etc…