Mexico Protests National Guard at the Border… Rick Perry Refuses to Stand Down
What goes around, comes around. The United States hasn’t been acting like a very good ally to its friends around the world–leaving Iraq to dissolve into chaos and demanding that Israel accede to the demands of the radical Islamic terrorists of Hamas–and, in its turn, Mexico isn’t acting much like an ally to the United States.
It’s bad enough that they continue to hold a jailed U.S. Marine on shaky weapons smuggling charges despite evidence of his innocent intent and many pleas for his release. Worse, they have failed to control elements of their own military, who, corrupted by Mexican cartel drug money, actively protect the smugglers as they make their way across the U.S. border.
In fact, not only have they failed on their side to stem the flood of illegal immigration that so often passes through Mexico on its way to America, they are now protesting Texan attempts to secure its border, as well.
According to Newsmax, the Mexican foreign ministry reiterated previously voiced opposition to Governor Rick Perry’s deployment of 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to assist in border security operations.
The troops will not actively engage with Mexicans or others crossing into the country, but have been sent to the border to take over some duties from Border Patrol agents, freeing them for border security operations.
Mexico says the troops will not “contribute in any way to solving the immigration problem” and it therefore rejects the action taken by the Texas governor.
The foreign ministry says that the country would prefer to engage with the United States in “building a modern, prosperous and safe border.”
The last comment is something the Mexican foreign ministry should probably be saying to Barack Obama, not Rick Perry, as it is the U.S. president who seems uninterested in either modernizing the border or ensuring the safety of those who patrol it–but perhaps the border situation, and that of Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi, have strained diplomatic relations between the president and the Mexican government.
On the other hand, Obama doesn’t seem to want the border secured, and the Mexican government is playing along. Maybe Mexico isn’t being such a bad ally to the Obama administration after all.
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