Anger in Mexico About Illegal-alien Invasion From Central America Might Stem Tide
by R. Cort Kirkwood
TheNewAmerican.com
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Mexicans don’t much care for Donald Trump. In fact, they don’t like him at all.
But neither do they care for the Central American illegal aliens who are overrunning their country in a bid for the U.S. border, a poll from the Washington Post and the country’s Reforma newspaper says.
Growing anger about the continued migration from Central America suggests that the ultimatum that President Trump gave to Mexico — either stop the migrant invasion crossing your southern border, or face tariffs of up to 25 percent — might well push Mexican officials to deport the Central American illegals and shut down the flow’s fountainhead, the country’s southern border with Guatemala.
Six in 10 Say No!
“Mexicans,” the Post reported, “are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country.”
Sixty percent say the migrants, who have been heading north for nearly a year, “are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans.”
And a “55 percent majority supports deporting migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the United States.”
Importantly, those data, the Post reported, belie the idea that Mexicans are on the side of border anarchy:
Those findings defy the perception that Mexico — a country that has sent millions of its own migrants to the United States, sending billions of dollars in remittances — is sympathetic to the surge of Central Americans. Instead, the data suggests Mexicans have turned against the migrants transiting through their own country, expressing antipathy that would be familiar to many supporters of President Trump north of the border.
The two newspapers polled 1,200 Mexican adults, who have been watching “migrants” from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador trespass then trash their country, and otherwise become a public nuisance.
They have been “sleeping in small-town plazas and relying on donations of food and clothes,” the Post reported, and overwhelmed cities such as Tijuana, where the invaders clashed with Mexicans who didn’t want them establishing squatter’s rights.
Comments from Mexicans online showed just how fed-up the natives are with the illegals, and Tijuana’s mayor took to wearing a “Make Tijuana Great Again” hat.
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