Posted on 10/02/2001 2:10:45 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
It wasn't long ago that President Bush and Mexico's President Vicente Fox were pledging undying friendship between the two nations, with Bush telling Fox, "The United States has no more important relationship in the world than our relationship with Mexico."
Fast-forward to the days following the Sept. 11 disaster and that relationship seems to have faded away, to be replaced by widespread Mexican indifference to the horrors suffered north of the border, if not outright hostility toward the United States.
Despite such stirring pledges as Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castinada's "We cannot deny [the U.S] our support," Mexico seems to have averted its gaze from the Black Tuesday massacre and its aftermath.
According to the Sept. 22 issue of The Economist, "Americans living in Mexico wonder aloud why the country has held no official memorial ceremony or mass vigils as Canada and some European countries have."
Shockingly, many Mexicans, "notably well-educated, well-off ones," the Economist reports, excuse their failure to express sorrow by saying the U.S. simply got what it deserves.
"It isn't our fight," they say. "They had it coming for all the things they've done to the rest of the world." Others remark, "Now they know what a real disaster feels like."
According to one poll, barely 22 percent of Mexicans would support contributing troops to any military reprisal for the attack, and only 31 percent would support sending any aid.
Observers attribute Mexico's cold shoulder to resentment of tough new restrictions on immigration from south of the border and hard-nosed inspections of all traffic at border crossing points.
Moreover, many Mexican resent the fact that the Black Tuesday debacle has put a serious crimp in planned reform of the U.S.-Mexico immigration policy and solution of other long-standing problems between the nations.
Commerce must continue, and the Mexicans are PRIMARILY engaged in a commercial relationship with us. Let it continue to the prosperity of both nations.
From the rest of the country, as you look towards China, it's only slightly to the left of California.
From the rest of the country, as you look towards China, it's only slightly to the left of California.
I don't think anybody's saying that Mexicans are in cahoots with the terrorists, if that's what you're worried about. But, it's long past time the US stopped giving illegal Mexican immigrants preferential treatment. It's simply unfair to all the the legal immigrants who have to jump through hoops to move to the US, as well as lower income US workers to let hordes of illegal Mexican immigrants into the US.
Now that Mexicans are showing how selfish and uncaring they are wrt world terrorism, I hope the US really puts the clamps on illegal immigration.
The Mexican border is prime for an invasion into the US by criminals from all over the world.
"That way" says Redcloak, pointing to his right.
Taco Bell?
I thought that was the Mexican phone company.
WHO AUTHORIZED YOU TO MAKE SENSE AROUND HERE WHEN IT COMES TO THIS TOPIC?
the proper authorities will be contacing you soon to instruct you on the proper names to call mexico and mexicans
Digging itself deeper into third world irrelevance.
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