https://socialistaction.org/2017/02/08/mexico-wont-pay-for-the-wall/
Mexico won’t pay for the Wall!
/ 4 days ago
us-immigration-protest-1By MARCO DAVILA
The reactionary white contingent in the United States has become braver
with the recent arrival of one of their “own” in the White House. And at
this point it has become clear that to underestimate Trump is an error.
For Trump and his followers, Mexicans are to blame for most of the ills
in the U.S. Undocumented workers are treated like the lowest of the low
and the New York billionaire like an honest worker.
In these times of darkness for immigrants and refugees, undocumented
workers, who are disparaged by all sides, are experiencing an extra dose
of stress. Trump is clarifying the unclear future of undocumented
workers by bringing the threat of deportation to the forefront. With the
inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, the attacks against
immigrants, Muslims, women, and minorities have just begun.
The United States creates immigrants and refugees in other countries and
then blocks their entry into this country. In the end, it is not Mexico
who will pay for the wall, but undocumented immigrants and the 50
million poor citizens who live in Mexico.
If the corrupt government of Mexico hasn’t been able to defend its
undocumented people for dozens of years, if it hasn’t been able to use
its own resources to become self sufficient, if it hasn’t been able to
create living wage jobs for its own citizens, what makes us think it
will do so now? Mexico should have stopped looking to the North, should
have stopped trying to emulate or depend on the North, should have
stopped trying to satisfy imperialism a long time ago.
In Mexico it is said that Trump is making national security more
vulnerable, but in reality it is the corrupt Mexican government that has
made its own national security more vulnerable through their ruthless
capitalism.
Trump will find a strong rival in Mexico—not within the Mexican
government, but within the organized and united Mexican community. He
will encounter this rival in the very streets of the United States, when
Mexicans, along with their American brothers and sisters, take to the
streets to send a strong message of defiance to the Trump administration.
With his attacks against human rights and dignity, Trump has ignited the
spark of rebellion within sectors of the population that have never
attended a protest, march or rally and who now feel that their basic
human rights are being threatened. Within days of taking the presidency,
marches are beginning to break records with their attendance across the
nation.
Mexico should stop trying to placate its imperial neighbor as it has
done in the past. The resistance of the North American people has just
begun. The resistance will be on both sides of the border and at the
same time beyond it. Undocumented immigrants are not alone. They are
supported by the most conscious and militant layers of the working class
in the United States.
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February 8, 2017 in Immigration, Latino Civil Liberties, Trump / U.S.
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