What is your stand about the US-Mexico border? Do you think it is the best option to stop the drug cartels from Mexico entering the US boundaries? I think,there is impact of this. Though the US government spend billions of dollars, but it is woot the spending. This also angered the drug cartels from Mexico. It is their big loss, said the son pf El Chapo.
My stand is that a lot of people talk about it without having living anywhere near and having no understanding of the living conditions of anyone within the borders. I was born and raised in a border city and even I can have blind spots. The only thing I want to leave clear is that it is not black and white thing.
People think that people don't mingle between borders or something, that people don't have family across both sides, or works or school that requires them to cross every day. Business that survive from customers from the other side. Living in the border is not the isolating "us versus them" that the media loves to propagate.
During Covid, between two borders cities, one being the one I mentioned I am from, the nurses from Mexico were the ones willingly offering a hand to the ones in US, because there was a shortage of nurses to be able to keep up with the demand with all contagion going on. I am sure US nurses also gave back the help in different ways because when push come to shove we are sisters cities that have empathy and solidarity for each other. I heard from my friends a lot of ways in how the cities supported each other efforts to keep things as much as possible under control.
18 year old youngsters will cross to Mexico to be of legal age to do things they can't do in US. People come over to fill their cars when the price drops in Mexico, people from Mexico goes to US to fill theirs when the price drops there. The fluctuation of the coin between Mx-Peso and USD is checked daily by the citizens in both sides to make their decisions. Because depending if your money is pesos or dollars you might gain or you might lose value and you need to make the best of the cents you've earned.
I grew up with a healthy amount of friends in high school, some of them ended up in US school because they wanted specific careers to master and because certain cities in US have the best reputation for people to find jobs in said fields. I love how people like to point about people working in US stealing the money to Mexico, meanwhile factories opening in Mexico taking advantages of the lower taxes and restriction while the earnings go back to US. So both cities are intertwined and I doubt it is different in other border cities. The vast majority of people dealing with the consequences from strict border policies are normal human beings just like you that are trying to live their lives while the actual ones they are trying to trap probably don't even bother to use legal mediums. So if there is anything going to be set for the border protection I think it should take in account in a humane way for a system to allow these recurrent travellers to keep at their lives.
Nothing in life is black and white. Everything is grey but a good majority of people like to make issues seem like they're black and white. I'd say you nailed it with your post. You know from experience, and you're absolutely right.
I am Canadian. But i think the border does indeed need to be protected. It is not only people from Mexico crossing the border illegally , with the border being as weak as it was (yes the Canadian border is bad to hence Trumps threats against us). I think if someone wants to enter another country, ANY other country, they should do it legally and not just jump the border.
I might be showing my age a bit , but in the early 90s i lived in Vancouver BC , and we had a bunch of Honduran gang members enter from the United States , and at the time drugs were indeed an issue, but after the influx of gangs it got way way worse. Kidnapping were on the rise , murders everything. The police had their hands tied , so vigilate groups were formed to fight back against these illegal gang members. Now its 2025 and its even worse , both here and in the US. I for one dont want illegal gangs coming into either country and killing and breaking laws in either country. We are neighbors and need to stand up against this happening.
I dont care if you dont like Donald Trump and his policies, but i do believe securing the borders are important
