About Our Southern Border

March 31, 2010 / 10:06 am • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Drug wars, corruption, gang violence, murder, kidnappings, torture–it’s all part of Mexican culture these days and it’s getting worse. Why? Well, trouble has been brewing for a very long time.

A while back, I wrote about how the border will never get closed because it is like steam from the Mexican teapot. Illegal immigration gets workers to the U.S. where there are jobs and sends money back home to Mexico where there are not jobs. But now, the U.S. economy is tanked and thousands of workers have moved back across the border to find a better landing spot at home. They aren’t finding it.

Closing the border would do much the same thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mexico suffered something night unto civil war. The fact is that Mexico needs to clean up its mess and create a place where people want to live and work and feel safe doing so. Corruption and nepotism are so rife there, though, that it’s nigh to impossible to “reform” anything.

Anyway, Michelle Malkin talks about the rancher who got killed. There will be more of this. Mexico can no longer contain their problems.

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  • canada

    You are right, but you are telling a half truth. NAFTA triggered the loss of employment in Mexico due to the imposition of American corn to the Mexican market. Moreover, the tireless drug use in the US keeps stirring this violence. Again, you are right in your idea about the border, but you only want to see what you want to see. You probably belong to the people who still believe that the US has a manifest destiny, and as such, your country has little or no flaws. Well your country does have a lot of flaws, and a major one is the lack of effective prevention of drug use. The problem in Mexico is an issue of the Mexicans, but the Americans play a role too.