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On 13/11/24 11:54, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> The catch is that it has become so well known that the US southern
>> border is pretty much wide open that people from LOTS of places other
>> than Mexico are arriving in Mexico, going to Mexico's northern border
>> and crossing into the US.
> 
> Yes.  We used to have illegal Mexican immigration, but with the PRI out
> of power the Mexican economy has improved a bit and there isn't much
> of that.  Now we get folks from Honduras and Guatemala where bad governments
> have destroyed the economies who want to get into the US and they are
> at the border.

The US government shares the responsibility for these "bad governments"
through creating regimes where the authoritarian rich prosper through
the exploitation of their country's resources be they bananas, minerals,
etc or labour for the benefit of the US.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz.



> Thing is... the reason why all those people are massing at the border
> is that it's not wide open.  If it were wide open, there wouldn't be 
> so many people camping there.
> --scott