@ErikJonker They don't typically post when soldiers are retracted. If there have been 10k already who aren't working with cartels, the number of illegals crossing wouldn't be anywhere what we were seeing the last number of years.
Have you ever looked at the length of the border?
10K personnel is not very much. It means at most 2K constantly on watch on any given time.
And let's put things straight: Mexico's (and large part of LatAm's) biggest problem is US drug money, because they fail to have a sensible drug policy.
On another note: if you're not a convicted criminal, leaving a country isn't illegal. (of course it is in dictatorships, but Mexico isn't one)
Mexico has no obligation under international law of stopping people from crossing the US border.
i mean, if the US was serious about combating drug abuse, they would have given life imprisoment to the sacklers (purdue pharma CEOs)
Noone is serious on that topic.
The "war on drugs" has been an ideology-poised scam since its beginning under Nixon.
i mean, sure, the problem is the sackler family unleashed an opioid epidemic in a "legal" way and their court system just let them walk
borders are permeable by their nature, unless you set up a hugely expensive north korea style security, they will be breached
on the other hand, convicting a ceo who caused an epidemic is orders of magnitude easier and they just did not do it
@mina @allen099 @ErikJonker That's just about one man per mile of border.
@edgeofeurope @mina @allen099 …it’s all theatre but Mexico will cooperate if they can avoid tariffs that way, I am wondering if they come up with something similar for Canada
Politics is mostly show and theatre.
However: People in the US should be grateful to Ms Sheinbaum for sparing them the huge price hike in the stores the "stable genius" was going to gift them with.
@ErikJonker @edgeofeurope @mina @allen099 waarschijnlijk als ze de 51e staat worden :-D
Even less. It doesn't make sense to patrol in too small groups. We shouldn't forget that cartel people also carry US provenient military grade weapons.
So, this reduces it to perhaps 1 team per 20 km of border.