Both parties, the Republican and the Democratic, have good ideas and good people but the poisonous statements of Donald Trump since he enter to the run to the presidency until now have been sickening and influential to the minds of good republican people who think that he says the truth just because he's so blunt in front of the cameras or microphones of the mass media.
Mexico and the United States share one big border, as well Canada and US, but in Trump's first of the three core principles of the immigration plan said:
A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.The borders exist, but looks like Canada is another State of the Union and don't need to have a wall in the northern border. And he said that "Mexico must pay for the wall"; and added that "Mexico's leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries). I think he doesn't know the list of countries down to Central and South America because he's not talking about them (eg. Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc., etc.).
He said that the US taxpayers are covering the costs of healthcare, housing, education, welfare, etc., of the illegal immigrants. More ignorance of the real state guy. The immigrants cannot use the healthcare system because you need some papers to get it, so they use small clinics were they can pay for the services of good will doctors that don't charge the regular fees and help poor people.
About the housing costs, they rent small houses or shacks that can afford. They never use the housing government system because they don' have papers. And the education for their children, if they go to the public school system, they pay their fair share through the rent they are paying to the house owner. And finally the welfare system not even with a fake social security number the welfare system is going to give the benefits they offer until they run a thorough investigation of the person. The only thing I would like to know is what he means of "free tax credits".
The crime and drug traffic, well in the Mexican news you hear about the seize of tons of marihuana every week before crossing the border and on this side of the border you hear about kilos or pounds of drug confiscated. So the Mexican government is making a lot of efforts to seize and burn all the drugs by the Mexican Army, but the Customs, Border Patrol agents, DEA, and Sheriff departments of border towns in the American side are investigated, and some of them detained, by the FBI under conspiracy charges, drug traffic, racquet, etc.
Trump said that "Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the US". He hates Mexico and the Mexican government because he couldn't make a resort in the Mexican Caribbean due to environmental concerns (after he paid a lot of money to bribe local officials) and also another resort near Tijuana and for the same reasons.
So, Trump is a good salesman, and the average American is an easy target for that kind of people, sometimes because of ignorance or because is naïve both things bad if they're thinking to elect a person to be the leader of the "free world" the "example of a nation" not the guy who wants to be remembered as the one who build a beautiful wall, like the Great Wall of China, but this one would be the Wall of (Great) Trump.
Salutem,
Ray Pedraza
