Drug gangs and Chinese money. What could possibly go wrong?-----Mexico Is Not Really an American Friend

Mexico Is Not Really an American Friend-- By Victor Davis Hanson

"One sure sign of historic national decline is the collective inability of a government and its people to defend their own borders and national sovereignty
Left-wing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently praised a visiting Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States—40 million who were born here in Mexico, [or] who are the children of people who were born in Mexico!”

• ...Note that Mexico itself facilitates illegal transits across its own southern border—as long as such Central American and other global migrants keep heading northward into the United States.
• But when or if they pause, try to stay in Mexico, commit crimes, or expect Mexican social services, then almost immediately Mexico City sends thousands of troops to close its border with Guatemala, deports the illegal crossers, and revives talk of building a border wall of its own...