By Brandon Smith
Oh, the delicious irony. For many years I’ve been writing about the southern US border and the many ways in which Mexico has used it as a “steam valve” to get rid of people in perpetual poverty, as well as malcontents, violent criminals and political revolutionaries. Who could have foreseen a time when the conundrum would be reversed and Mexico would be crushed by an avalanche of its own unwanted citizens?
But weren’t we told that migrants are an “economic boon” to any country lucky enough to have them?
The argument among progressives and open border activists has always been that migrants are average law abiding people (just like us) who slip across the border simply to integrate into our society and live the American dream. They claim that Mexican leaders are not in control of the situation and that people are desperate to escape crime and social decline.
In reality, government officials have long encouraged migrant caravans to traverse their territories and they have allowed illegal immigration into the US as a means to divert their failures into the laps of American taxpayers. Migrants aren’t trying to escape problems in Mexico, they ARE the problem in Mexico. The more of these caravans the Mexican authorities can get rid of, the better their economic situation appears.
I wrote about this dynamic in detail in my recent article ‘Illegal Alien Economy: How Foreign Nations Exploit U.S. Borders For Profit’. Specifically, I examined threats made by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum over the possible taxation of remittances (US dollars) sent by migrants from the US into the coffers of Mexican banks and households.
She asserted that her government would “mobilize” against the US should conservative politicians continue their campaign to stop illegals from transferring money back home. Remittances are the single largest source of revenue Mexico receives from foreign countries. Their economy loses significantly without this cash flow.
Beyond the issue of easy money, though, is a singular reality which I have reiterated for a long time: Central and South American nations cannot survive the influx of returning migrants. They will be suffocated by the very same illegals they originally foisted upon the US.
The purging of millions of undesirables reduces Mexico’s poverty stats, homeless stats, unemployment stats and crime stats. I have to laugh every time I hear smug Europeans criticize the US for our violent crime rates – Only now are they beginning to understand what happens when you overwhelm a western nation with a third world demographic and a third world mentality. We certainly have our own home brewed fatigue-ers, but taking on millions of fatigue-ers from other nations does not help.
It’s difficult to keep crime low when other countries offload their problem children onto your front lawn.
Furthermore, labor data proves that illegals have been stealing American jobs and driving down American wages. It’s no coincidence that employment numbers for native born Americans have spiked in recent months as migrant jobs have decreased in tandem with deportations.
There’s a lot more proof in the pudding when we examine what is currently happening in Mexico, though.
Riots in Mexico City are breaking out and they are growing more violent by the day. Residents blame “gringo immigrants” and “digital nomads” for moving into the country and driving up food and housing costs. They also complain that white visitors are allowed to stay on their visas for far too long and that they refuse to “learn their language or respect Mexican culture”. Gee, that sure sounds familiar. Has Mexico gone MAGA?
The irony is, of course, that conservative Americans have been warning about the same issues caused by migrants from Mexico and we have been called “racists” and “fascists” for doing so.
There are approximately 700,000 US citizens residing in Mexico today, a tiny number compared to the tens of millions of Mexican migrants in the US illegally. But somehow, gringos are to blame for rising prices?
Realty experts in the Mexican market say that the cause of the shortages is a slowdown in housing development (Didn’t they tell us we needed illegals to help build more houses to counter the housing shortage in the US? Why don’t they put all these returning construction supermen to work in Mexico?). This explanation doesn’t account for inflation in other areas of the economy such as food and energy. So, are white tourists and ex-pats making things more expensive south of the border?
No, this is nonsense. Perhaps in a handful of resort towns the case might be made, but the truth is that Mexicans are being propagandized into thinking US migrants are the cause of their woes when it is actually the mass return of their OWN CITIZENS from the US.
Some of these people have been deported by force, but armies of them are self deporting and the Mexican economy simply can’t handle the strain. The surge started in 2024, even before Trump took office, with many illegals leaving the US because of inflation as well as the expectation of a conservative election win.
The riots, though, are probably starting now because of the mass deportations. Mexico City in particular has been inundated with migrants, many of them from other countries in Central and South America, as they look for a new place to settle outside the US.
I’ll say it again – I believe the Mexican population is being agitated into violence against American visitors by false claims that they are driving up prices when it is returning illegals that are the real cause. Mexican leaders are trying to distract their population from the bigger picture.
To be sure, there is obviously the NGO issue to consider. Central and South American leaders have not been acting unilaterally as they push for open US borders. Globalist organizations have been expediting matters by feeding cash into programs that guide illegals into the US. They do this to further their vision of a borderless multicultural world, but also to destabilize western societies and displace groups of people they see as likely threats in the future (namely white Christian conservatives).
However, globalist non-profits only smooth the way; its governments like the variety in Mexico that have been providing the human bodies for the NGOs to work with.
Now that Mexico is witnessing the pure Karma of their actions, what is likely to happen? First, the Mexican economy is going to go into a tailspin in a very short period of time. Prices will skyrocket due to crushing demand as illegals come home (just as they helped to trigger rising prices in the US during the Biden border bonanza).
Second, unemployment will rise exponentially along with a saturated labor market. High competition for limited jobs will force government intervention. But in Mexico the government has far less means at its disposal to adapt to the chaos of mass immigration. They will seek to establish social programs to gloss over the damage, but this will fail. Not only are they taking on millions of citizens that they tried to get rid of, they are losing access to the billions of US dollars those migrants were injecting into the Mexican economy. It’s a double whammy.
Third, Mexican officials will demonize the US for the deportations, as if it’s our fault they sent so many foreigners into our country without our permission. As we have seen, this is already leading to animosity across the border and Americans will remain at risk when they travel.
Fourth, if the current trend continues, Mexico will face economic collapse. They simply won’t be able to mitigate the instability caused by the sudden surge in inflation, housing shortages and the unemployed feeding on their social welfare programs.
What would this means for the US? Riots and violence in Mexico could bleed over into border states. Near zero infrastructure on the Mexican side of the border and even less restrictions on migrant movements, which means even tighter controls will be needed on the US side to keep illegals in check. Cartels may end up being the least of our worries when it comes to threats from Central America.
Keep in mind that a large contingent of Central Americans believe that the southern US belongs to them by historical right. The “La Raza” movement has long called for the retaking of large swaths of US territory in the name of “decolonization” (even though they are also descended from Spanish colonists). I believe they will once again assume that they can solve most of their problems of incompetent governance and economic decline by blaming the US and pressing citizens to invade.
They will double down on the same actions that got them in trouble in the first place. When Claudia Sheinbaum talks about “mobilizing” Mexico against the US, this is most likely what she means – A renewed march on the US border in the hopes that Mexico can reopen the steam valve and alleviate their economic troubles.
The result will not be peaceful as she seems to suppose; it could even mean war. It would be a disaster for the Mexicans, but they’ve been relying on the US for so long that they simply don’t understand any other way. That is to say, they are about to get what they deserve; a taste of their own medicine. The destabilization they tried to export to us is now on its way to blow up their own country.
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Michelle Malkin wrote the definitive piece on Mexican immigration policy back in 2010. America should either enforce its own immigration laws, which are neither homophobic nor racist, or adopt those of Mexico, which are. Brandon, as usual, drives the point home with another insightful, well-written post.
https://unz.com/mmalkin/police-state-how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens/
Someone said that the U.S. economy has gotten so bad that a truck load of Americans was caught trying to sneak into Mexico.
Is that supposed to be a joke? Spoken like a true leftist loonie.
I thought it was funny. Sorry if it triggered you. Someone once told me that I was so conservative I could see through a keyhole with both eyes at the same time.
Hey Jay, I thought that was pretty funny. I’m surprised it triggered anyone.
The Mexicans have a saying about their country: “So far from God, so close to the United States.” If you look at their history since the 1800’s there have been revolutions, civil wars, and unrest forever. Culture and politics have contributed to the fact of no real, stable, producing middle class. And that is the observation of a Mexican acquaintance of mine who has family there.
I dealt with the results of illegal immigration for over 30 years while working as a Peace Officer in SoCal. The image of the poor Campesino and his family looking for work is a leftist fabrication. These border jumpers infected me with TB when I worked as a Jail Deputy. Then, they were either the victims or suspects in crimes which I investigated from drunk driving and organized shoplifting to rape and murder. USINS was hamstrung by corrupt, syphilitic-thinking pols from both sides of the aisle: The Socialist-Abortion Party of Teddy Kennedy wanted ignorant voters. The Dead Elephant Party of Ronny Rayguns, Jack Kemp, the Koch Brothers, and the US Chamber of Commerce wanted cheap, silent, union-busting labor.
This current situation will not end well. Already the Marxist Mayor of LA and other traitors are calling for armed resistance to ICE. There has already been one shooting at an ICE facility in Texas. Every big city with an infestation of these invading parasites and their supporters will end up as another Sarajevo. Read or re-read CIVIL WAR II by Thomas Chittum. Plan accordingly.
I wrote to my representative in the 1980’s giving him a solution with all of the money going to Mexico – put a tax on the money being sent out. The reply was that there was a law forbidding that. Imagine that!
Brandon, great article. I’m laughing inside on how the irony is completely lost on them.
Got a news flash Dweezle, the unions are also a part of the problem. Part of the socialist- abortion party. Just sayin
You are correct. In the early 1950’s, my working-class parents scrimped, saved, and bought a one-third acre lot in Granada Hills, CA. They built their house on it and maintained 17 Valencia orange trees. Every year, Sunkist would send over a crew to harvest the oranges. They were Braceros, paid migrant workers from Mexico.
These men would live in barracks and work all the agriculture in the San Fernando Valley and other local areas. Part of their wages were kept back and sent to their families in Mexico. When the harvest was over, they went home. LBJ eliminated the Bracero Program because of pressure from the UFW and other unions. So, the Mexicans came, brought their families and stayed. California has never been the same since. Look at it now. Sad.
“… Mexico has used it… to get rid of people in perpetual poverty, as well as malcontents, violent criminals and political revolutionaries.”
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Why do human beings and other living things have skin? For two reasons. To hold our vital organs in – and to keep things that should not be in there, out. So this also should be with Nations.
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The United States cannot be the destination point for the people of failed Nations around the World. It’s not our job and we can’t afford it. The United States needs to have a healthy National body that keeps in legacy American values and actual American people – and keep outside that which does not conform to what we keep inside.
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This of course does not mean that no one can ever get into America. We’ve always had great tradition of letting people in who in many cases have greatly enriched our Nation and our culture. BUT… you do this LEGALLY. With a process of some basic level of integration into the greater American body and with American values. As was done with the great migrations that came from Europe through both New Orleans and New York City at the close of the 19th Century and early in the 20th. This process worked. It can work again. But sanity must prevail over immigration policy without this process being a deliberate weaponization to undermine and weaken America and American values.
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America cannot heal the World. America cannot solve the World’s problems. No Nation can or should. Each Nation must bear the consequences of its state of being and it’s wealth or problems internally. Don’t expect somebody else to solve your problems or absorb your problem people.
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There are many hard working Mexicans. They have contributed a great deal to today’s America. And what most Mexicans have is pride for Nation – Mexico. There just was a soccer match between Mexico and the US (won by Mexico) and the great majority of the crowd in the American stadium in which the match was held was rooting for… Mexico.
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It’s OK to have pride in where you came from. But how about having some pride and appreciation for where you live NOW? Is that asking too much and some kind of unreasonable request? How much are these folks ‘Mexican’ and now much are they, ‘American’? Perhaps the soccer match gave us the answer.
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We must preserve America and legacy American values or we shall surely lose them. Little by little… or a lot. And too many Americans themselves today need to learn that hating America is not the way to prosper as a Nation or as a People.
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You don’t barge into someone else’s house and insult them and throw them out of their living room. And you don’t try to steal the title to their home. This also cannot be allowed to happen in America.
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Because even with all it’s flaw’s today – America is just too precious to lose.
Mexico absolutely deserves the tribulations that now befall them. For years they’ve thrown their garbage over onto our yard, all so they can pretend they’re not a failed state. And now that we’ve started tossing said trash back to wince it came, Mexico has the nerve to act indignant over us no longer tolerating their bullshit.
Another aspect of Mexico’s “tribulations” is Mexico City, and its environs is running out of water. The quality of life in that seething mass of humanity is spiraling ever downward. Atlas is shrugging and the Golden Golem will be forced to bail out that pathetic failed state.
Reading the comments in the first video as they show up, the people are really rioting against gentrification. The “kill gringo” stuff is likely targeting the “gringo” developers and bankers who want to redevelop their old neighborhoods into what I have been calling communist housing. However, what is said to be happening is the locals are getting priced out of their neighborhoods. The housing projects may be sold as helping the poor people but in fact are for those with means? Some nice shots of well dressed folks having dinner with a mob outside. In the US, the “communist housing” projects seem to be on a different level – targeting the lower income people working in service jobs in a positive way. Just a form of a forced labor prison camp without walls.
Seeing both videos, and the whining in the second video, makes me yell at the screen “why can’t Mexico step up and help these people?” There is probably more than enough money coming out of Sheinbaum’s drinking fountain to put a huge dent in this problem.
I can only hope this situation blows the lid off the corruption and forces those governments to bleed the CIA created cartels dry. Sadly, the problems North America faces goes deep and the US isn’t completely innocent in the process. The US had paid out big time over many decades dealing with everything this article mentions. Time for Mexico and others down south to step up.
I lived in Mexico for 15 years.. I agree with the Brandon on crime being a key negative feed back loop. Case in point; the “New Jalsco ” cartel just this week stole a fully loaded double. end dump semi, as the unit was in route to Manzanillo Port. It was fully loaded with gold and silver concentrate from a mine in Durango owned by Minero Basic. The drver and security detail were kidnapped while truck was takem to empty its contents. The driver and security were. subseqiently released and left to walk to a toll both to contact police. The truck was later found empty. The extent to which this criminal organizations are perpetrating crime is evidence of what Brandon is talking about. And things are just now starting to heat up. The environmental impact on Mexico City and surounding population centers will add exponentially to Mexico’s rate of failure. It is going to be.very ugly.
That first video was quite shocking as I notived a few things. La Codesa, La Roma ( Zona Rosa) are rather upscale neighborhoods. 2nd These thugs were damaging businesses owned Mexican’s.. Finally Mexico’s financial district was impacted. The violence was something I have never seen when I was living there. I hope my wife and daughter stay safe while they are down there the next 2 weeks.
I had a typing error. My previous comment shoud have been written “La Condesa”
I was misinformed! Truck I just reported on was hauling only 33 tons of gold and silver concentrate. I have seen 66 tons being hauled. For example a mine in Arcelia Guerrero Mexico used double end dumps to haul concentrate. That is 66 tons. Still 33 tons being stolen is amazing.
I was born and raised on the banks of the Rio Grande, so I know firsthand what that Mexico is (and always has been) a failed craphole state. So I am not the least bit surprised at what is going on there now. El Paso was a wonderful place to grow up in the 1960s-70s, when the border was secure. Now I weep for my hometown, and would never even consider visiting it unless/under the border is secure again.
There is another racial aspect that Mr. Smith omitted. The lighter-skinned descendants of the Spaniards control the Mexican government. They seek to solidify that control by encouraging the darker-skinned “mestizos” (mixed blood) and “indos” (natives) to cross into the US.