Here is a question I have asked more times than I care to remember, but which, somehow, I never get an answer to:
When does our government, and our mainstream media, start blaming Mexico for the border mess?
And when do they start calling Mexican President Enrique Peno Nieto to account for not only doing nothing to fix what is broken in Mexico, but stating that he is “indignant” that the USA might try to secure its borders?
I am now going to repost a blog I wrote on February 27th, 2014. I do this partly because my point of view remains exactly the same today and partly because it shows that, 15 months later, Mexico still has done exactly nothing about this situation – and the Obama administration has done nothing to pressure them either:
THE HYPOCRISY OF ENRIQUE PENA NIETO
Ken Berwitz
Do yourself a favor: Don\’t be eating or drinking anything when you read this.
Excerpted from Julia Symmes Cobb\’s incredible article at reuters.com:
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he is “indignant” at the United States\’ deportation of Mexican migrants and described U.S. lawmakers as demonstrating a “lack of conscience” in failing to pass immigration reform.
In a television interview aired late on Wednesday Pena Nieto said he and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed the issue during their meeting at a North American leaders\’ summit held last week in Mexico.
“Yes it makes me indignant, and it makes Mexicans indignant,” Pena Nieto said in the interview, when asked whether deportations angered him.
“There\’s a lack of conscience, something which shouldn\’t only alert and worry Mexicans, it should also worry the American government and they should take up the issue,” said Pena Nieto.
Pena Nieto added that he sees a willingness on the part of the Obama administration to change immigration laws, and that reform which provides a path to citizenship should “have the backing and aid of the various political forces” in the United States.
A bill that would have provided ways for the approximately 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally to obtain citizenship recently stalled in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives.
Can you believe this man\’s hypocrisy?
I have two words for enrique pena nieto. Propriety causes me not to post the first word, but the second is “you”. I assume readers can do the math.
And now I have a question for him: what, exactly, does Mexico do with illegals who come across the Mexican border? Do you welcome them with open arms — or do you send them right back to where they came from? We both know the answer, don\’t we?
enrique pena nieto is indignant that we don\’t take millions of his own people the way he and his government never would (for any other country\’s people)? What a disgusting, blatant hypocrite he is.
Now, let\’s discuss how pena nieto and his government treat the exact same people he professes to be “indignant” about.
Why, President pena nieto, do you think almost 10% of Mexican\’s entire population has chosen to cross the border illegally, to live in the shadows – often being exploited with low pay, squalid living conditions and no protection from employers happy to exploit them? Why do you think they prefer this kind of existence to living in their own country as legal citizens?
Because Mexico is providing them with the ability to earn enough to support their families and live in dignity?
Let\’s remember that Mexico is no third-world country. It has vast natural resources, and thriving industrial, agricultural and tourist industries. Therefore, the one and only reason Mexicans who seek work come over that border is because their own country treats them like dirt and could not care less.
You\’re indignant, President pena nieto? I don\’t give a damn. Because I\’M indignant.
I\’m indignant at your disgusting treatment of millions of Mexican people which causes them to flee their homeland and come here. And I\’m especially indignant that you think the USA, not Mexico, is responsible for their well being.
I will end the way I started. Think of two words, Mr. President – the second of which is “you”.
That is what you get from me, because it is what you deserve.
Mexico gets no free pass from me. Does it get one from you? If so, why?
Consider that a question to readers of this blog…and to every member of the Obama administration, right up to the top.
