Unafraid, Bi-Partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom

 

Donald, your visit with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is brilliant but it is also a gamble. If the meeting doesn’t go well the trip will be exploited by the Clinton camp as a failure.  If you succeed, however, both you and Nieto will benefit, you by possibly winning the election, he because his poor status in Mexico will be improved.

 

 

First, be sure to assert that when you spoke about the criminals and rapists coming from Mexico you did not in any way mean to impugn the Mexican people. It is the Mexican drug lords, white slavers and Mafia who are the subjects of your animus, the people who are enemies of the Mexican people as well. Unfortunately, the left-wing media spun this into a racist slur you never intended.

 

 

We have another suggestion, however.  Offer to assist with building a wall not just between Mexico and the U.S., but also between Mexico and Guatemala. It is not Mexican immigration so much as illegal immigration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that is most dangerous, allowing the flow of hundreds of thousands of people to cross the borders into the United States. Right now , the major flow is from El Salvador.

 

 

Moreover, according to customs manager Raul Diaz  the Mexican border state, Chiapas, is already building a wall along the country’s southern border with Guatemala, including, along the river Suchiate which divides both countries. Diaz says the purpose of the wall is to prevent the passage of contraband, ( and thus avoid duty taxes), but he has admitted, “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.” 

 

 

The Mexican border with Guatemala is 541 miles long and includes parts of the Usumacinta, Salinas and Suchiate Rivers. The U.S could certainly assist with both building the wall and  providing surveillance equipment in addition to benefiting from your building expertise. Compare this project to building the wall along the continental border of Mexico with the U.S. That border is 1,989 miles long, including 95,000 miles of shoreline.  

 

 

There are serious economic reasons for building both walls.  America, with its 22 trillion dollar debt will eventually collapse if it doesn’t straighten out its economy. We cannot support illegals and anchor babies with social security. It is also unfair to immigrants, including hunderds thousand Mexicans who are legally residing here to let illegals compete for their jobs -- and at times preferential treatment.  

 

 

Donald, study past Mexican-American relations and our wars with Mexico. Also point out that unlike Russia, which seeks to dominate neighboring Ukraine, to us Mexico with its 130 million people is an equal partner. Americans respect the free will of the Mexican people.

 

 

Dr. Jiri Valenta is President of the Institute of Post Communist Studies and Terrorism and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as Fulbright Fellow at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City and visiting professor in 1986. He also organized with Mexican scholar Esperanza Duran, an international conference at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. It resulted in the book, Conflict in Nicaragua,  published by Allen & Unwin; first dialoge beteen Contras and Sandinistas official. Jiri and his wife, Leni, are currently studying terrorism at our southern borders.