OK. I agree there is no way I would, at present, travel through Mexico. The hostility towards Americans has deep roots far beyond today’s politics and I relate two family instances of it.
My parents stopped vacationaing in Mexico after viewing video of Mexicans celebrating in the streets of Mexico City as the twin World Trade Towers in New York City collapsed on 9/11/2001. It was very shocking for them, as we all have friends who came from Mexico, and we never recognized any hate or resentment from them.
My father told me this past week about his grandfather, a Welsh collier mining gold in Mexico during the years after WWI.
Pancho Villa had raided their mining camp and rounded up all the miners and their families. These poor people were herded into the mine and Pancho Villa had told them he was going to blow up the mine with dynamite.
My grandmother’s parents and relatives were rescued by U.S. cavalry commanded by General Pershing. Not surprising, my great grandparents, who had just escaped being killed by Mexicans and later the massacre at Coalfield, Colorado, decided it was time to go back to the Empire. My great grandfather later died in a mine collapse on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
I have known many honest, hard working Hispanics whom I would value as co-citizens..but only if they are willing to go through the procedures of earning citizenship. Especially learning English, our language. I am not for diversity, as it weakens our national resolve, I am for UNITY in Citizenship, as it makes us a melting pot of diverse peoples, and a unified citizenship that built this country..
what a story!