Mexico Is Building A Border Wall "To Keep Illegal Immigrants Out"

Mexico Is Building A Border Wall "To Keep Illegal Immigrants Out"
"This article was written by Tyler Durden and originally published at Zero Hedge.

Editor’s Comment: The humanitarian, bleeding-heart cover that liberals in power would suggest that the very notion of a border wall is offensive, taboo and outrageous to consider. Yet, countries around the world have implemented them to deal with being overwhelmed. It shouldn’t be out of the question to discuss, propose or advocate for a sovereignty-sealing border wall. Treating people humanely, on the other hand, is important, but gets lost in the focus.

...The UN and other elite institutions have purposefully exploited migration and economic woes to drive a wedge between the native U.S. population, and undermine the well-being of its people. The truth is that we’ve been played, and the exercise of a border is only sensible. Somehow Robert Frost is lost upon everyone as well: Good fences make good neighbors.

Mexico Builds A “Wall” (And Guess Who Paid For It)

by Tyler Durden

Mexico is building a ‘wall’… on its southern border (to keep illegal immigrants out). Perhaps even more ironic, The FT notes that the Obama administration is coy about its role in Mexico’s crackdown but is sending $75m in equipment and training to help stop Central Americans from crossing illegally into Mexico… in other words, US Taxpayers funded a Mexican wall to keep immigrants out.

The UN estimates 400,000 Central Americans cross illegally into Mexico each year and as many as half of those are fleeing violence. But as The FT reports, Mexico already acts as a formidable barrier for many…

Zero net immigration of Mexicans into the US and an 82 per cent fall in people caught trying to cross the US-Mexico border in the past 10 years means that most would-be immigrants detained there are Central Americans. Even without Mr Trump’s fortress frontier, Mexico finds itself under increasing pressure to stem the migrant tide near its source — its own southern border.

“Mexico has become a wall for migrants,” said Sister Magdalena Silva, co-ordinator of Cafemin, a privately run shelter in Mexico City that takes in refugee families, including Rosa’s. “The current policy is to arrest migrants to stop them from getting to the US border.”

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Unlike in the US, Mexico has broadened asylum laws to recognise that fleeing violence of the kind practised by the street gangs of Honduras and El Salvador can classify someone as a refugee. But the odds are still stacked against asylum seekers: Mexico deported a record 175,000 Central Americans last year, up 68 per cent from the previous year and nearly two-and-a-half times the number deported by the US..."

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