Is enforcing the US/Mexico border as important to Mexico's future as America's?

Question

'Good fences make good neighbors', will enforcing the border help both countries?

Answer 1

just give them back there land and call it even and while were at it give the Hawaiians back there islands Russia can take back Alaska sell the mid-west back to the french give the east coast back to the Indians get on little boats and sail you *** back to England oh, and don't forget to swing by Africa...its not like where using them anymore.

Answer 2

I think so, but Mexico will neither see that or begin to improve their country right away. It will take some time but I think that in the long run both countries will begin to see an improvement in their economy and appreciation of their country. Although I do feel America will feel some loss even though a majority will deny this at this time, those who cant see past their anger will be kicking themselves in the a** when all the illegals are gone which isnt likely anyways.

Answer 3

Not As Far As Mexico Is Concerned


In his article, Clash of Civilizations?,
Samuel P. Huntington reminds us
that cultural differences may cause future wars,
and that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''

The U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.

Huntington writes,
''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,
and the world will be shaped in large measure
by the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations

The most important conflicts of the future
will occur along the cultural fault lines
separating these civilizations from one another.''

In regard to Mexico, Huntington writes,
''During the past decade,
Mexico has assumed a position
somewhat similar to that of Turkey.
Just as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe
and attempted to join Europe,
Mexico has stopped defining itself
by its opposition to the United States
and is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''

However,
unlike Canada,
Mexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population
that has not yet been integrated into modernity.
This native population also carries
an unconscious weight of resentment
towards the Spanish conquest,
which it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S.

Mexico's indigenous population
is one of the contemporary strains in that society.
Sub-Comandante Marcos
and the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people
is a prediction of what is to come in Mexico
if that strain cannot be relieved.

The Mexican elites have decided, therefore,
to reduce this strain by sending north
as many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.
Instead of solving their own problems,
which might entail a reduction of their status,
the ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going
and let the U. S. handle the cleanup.

A top adviser
to past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
described to Huntington all the changes
the Salinas government was making.
When the advisor finished, Huntington remarked:
''That's most impressive.
It seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico
from a Latin American country into a North American country.''
He looked at me with surprise and exclaimed:
''Exactly!
That's precisely what we are trying to do,
but of course we could never say so publicly.''

What also could not be said publicly
is that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.
It will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.

Many Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,
Mexico has to restructure its economy
and regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.
For over a century,
Mexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols
of a lost but glorious indigenous past
to motivate its plans for expansion.




D. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel,
The Plumed Serpent

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Answer 4

Yes, I believe so because it seems that Mexico needs to be "forced" to look after their poor and straighten up their government. As long as the hand-outs are forthcoming from the USA, they are like children who keep coming back for more until the adult (USA) takes control and tells them "NO MORE!"

Answer 5

It will certainly help ours. It would only help Mexico if the people made to stay there finally took a hand in getting rid of their corrupt government and re-establishing the democracy they were guaranteed by their constitution.

Answer 6

Our porous southern border is a safety valve for the corrupt fat cats who keep the Mexican populace poor in a country rich in natural resources. If the Mexicans couldn't slink out they might demand the rights guaranteed by their Constitution.

Answer 7

I believe that it can. If Mexicans are forced to take control of their corrupt Government that they have been fleeing because they can no longer run away from it to come here, that would be the best thing for Mexico.

Answer 8

Actually, I don't think it will help diplomatic relationships with both countries....Mexico clearly has voiced its opposition to the fence....I personally don't find it to be a good idea....We already have a chain link fence here in my border town and it hasn't done much to stop the tide of illegals crossing....

Answer 9

Yes, it might just force Mexico to help its own poor.

Answer 10

There wil probably be an inflation in americas fruits and vegetables and this will sever ties associated with the NAFTA act.

Answer 11

Good relations between US/Mexico are what is benefical to all