The Mexican government is not happy with President Trumps border control plans.
This shouldn't come as a shock given the fact that Mexicans living and working in the U.S. send home over $20 billion annually in cash remittances.
That's more than Mexico earns in foreign currency from tourism or any export commodity.
But as good as the current system may look for representatives of the Mexican government, the truth is a strong border would have a more positive and longer lasting impact for the people of Mexico and the United States.
I explain why in more detail in my latest article in Breitbart below:
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROPS UP MEXICO'S DYSFUNCTIONAL STATE
File Photo: John Moore/Getty Images by TOM TANCREDO26 February 2017
The big news this week seems to be that the Mexican government is not happy with President Trump’s border control plans. That headline comes on the heels of the news that the sun is hot. Imagine that!Mexico is not happy that President Trump appears to be serious about building a border wall and halting the cross-border human traffic. The improvements in border security promised in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 as a trade-off for the general amnesty never happened, and illegal border crossings have trended upwards again after a brief decline connected to the 2008-10 recession. Apprehensions of illegal border jumpers on the southwest border have increased every year but one since 2010, and increased 23 percent from 2015 to 2016.
Because of the relative ease of crossing the border and Mexico’s liberal definition of Mexican citizenship, we have the situation recently described by author Ann Coulter, who discovered that persons of Mexican origin now residing in the United States — legal and illegal– are equal in number to over 25 percent of the 130 million population of Mexico.
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For America,
Tom Tancredo
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