Allan Wall, who writes at Border Hawk, observed that Mexico has a new foreign minister, Alicia Barcena. Recently she revealed an interesting observation about American politics in the prominent Mexican newspaper, El Universal. Wall translated the article and highlighted a key passage pertaining to Mexicans “living abroad.” (About 98 percent of them are in the United States.
She stated: “The historic vocation of Mexican diplomacy obliges us to empower the work of protecting [fellow Mexicans] who live abroad. Especially in upcoming months, when the electoral process in the United States will fan the flames of xenophobia and racism.”
Wall commented: “Mexican government officials don’t think American citizen-voters really have the right to question our immigration system. In their minds, we certainly don’t have a right to demand our government control the borders, deport illegal aliens or reduce immigration.”
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