Mexico enjoys a special relationship with the United States. Americas southern neighbor currently: sends more of her people to live in the USA than any other nation receives more U.S. Visas annually than any other nation primarily due to the effects of NAFTA,
presently transacts more trade with the United States than any other nation except Canada. In 2002 Mexicans residing in the United States sent a total of $10 billion back to Mexico. Such transfers are Mexico’s second largest source of income behind oil exports. allows American citizens of Mexican origin to obtain dual citizenship.
Mexico, led by President Vicente Fox, desires a much closer relationship with the United States. President Fox has made the national aspirations of his country known. The Fox administration envisions and seeks: An open border with the United States; Amnesty for all illegal aliens now in the United States; An economic union with the United States and Canada akin to the old European Common Market with the U.S. Dollar as the common currency between the three nations;
Many in Mexico’s ruling elite desire economic and political integration with the United States. Mexico wants deepened economic and political ties with the U.S. for obvious reasons: The United States is the world’s largest economy, richest and most powerful nation and the world’s only superpower. Through the exertion of political influence and leverage internally within the United States, the Mexican government seeks to implement its designs
on the United States and North America. Mexico has already successfully achieved part of its plan: the border between the the two nations is presently open along most of its length. The open border has allowed the Mexican Nation to acheive the following: The relocation of millions of Mexican citizens who primarily
posess low levels of skills and minimal education to the United States thereby easing pressure on Mexican society to provide jobs or human services to these groups. The transfer of masses of unemployed from Mexico’s impoverished Southern state of Chiapas to the United States thereby
weakening the Zapatista rebellion there and acting as an “emergency pressure relief valve” for Mexican society. The segment of the Mexican population transferred to the United States has received economic and social benefits which Mexico herself could not provide including: employment, education, health care and housing. Increasing political leverage within the United States especially in the American Southwest. The open border has provided a bonanza of billions of dollars to Mexican drug cartels. As legitmate trade between the U.S. and Mexico has skyrocketed so has the flow of illegal drugs across the U.S. southern border.
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