Militarized Immigration

by jay @, Thursday, August 17, 2023, 16:34 (1180 days ago) @ midalake
edited by jay, Thursday, August 17, 2023, 16:57

I simply stated that this Mexican president has failed to keep his citizens safe. There is more crime, murder, and chaos. If he concentrated more on the people of Mexico RATHER than Government control of everything maybe there would not be that many people being chopped into pieces and hung from bridges.

Actually from what I understand crime and murders are down somewhat but whatevs.

Even if what you say is true I'm puzzled as to what AMLO shouid do. Various presidents have tried various strategies to combat this problem: A get-tough militarized policy - that didn't work. A laissez-faire, live-and-let-live policy - that didn't work. A hybrid strategy and that didn't work either. The truth is that the cartels have more resources and firepower than the government has, and that disparity will remain as long as US thinking remains somewhere in the Cretaceous Era, thus guaranteeing that stratospheric drug profits, and cartel criminal behavior, will continue on unimpeded. The cartels and the US government have a kind of symbiotic relationship that way. US military intervention might work, temporarily, but Mexicans are understandably leery of US intentions, and will make the calculation that an intervention would be worse, and probably much worse, than the cartels themselves.

Easy to make accusations. Much harder to actually come up with a workable solution.


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