By now we all know the declarations Trump has made regarding Mexico: from immigrants to the NAFTA agreement, it is clear that Trump's presidency will bring about a tide of changes on the current relationship between Mexico and the US.
Many mexicans see Trump as evil and racist, but can Trump actions truly be described like that, or they have a justification behind them?
As a mexican, I will tell you my unbiased opinion on Trump's most outrageous comments against Mexico.
On Trump's claims against immigrants
Trump's campaign has been marked by accusations against immigrants, calling them "criminals and rapists", stating that "they (Mexico) are not sending their best people, but the worst".
And sadly, Trump is right in most cases: while there do are some educated Mexicans that go to the US legally and with no ill intentions, the vast majority of the immigrants are those who live in poverty or similar adverse conditions - uneducated people that work most in labour and that are prone to delinquency (or have already been delinquents back in Mexico).
Of course, this is not to say every immigrant is a criminal, that is far from being the truth. A lot of mexicans are hardworkers and actually contribute to the US economy, but the reality is simple: they crossed the border illegally, and that is a crime by its own right.
We have to understand that Trump is not closing the borders for mexicans, he just want them to go to the US in a legal way.
On Trump's plan to rewrite NAFTA
According to Trump, NAFTA has been a bad deal for the US economy, taking away jobs from US citizens and giving them to mexicans with a much lower payment. A clear example has been seen on renown companies such as Carrier and Ford
Speaking of Ford, the company had plans to create a manufacturing plant on San Luis Potosi Mexico, and construction of the plant had just begun. But just last week Ford decided to abandon the project, due to Trump threat on increasing frontier tax on cars produced on mexican grounds.
Of course, if you ask any of the mexicans that were scheduled to get a job there, they will all say that trump is evil. But coming back to reality, Trump just wants the best for its people; in the first place, Ford was taking advantage of NAFTA by manufacturing its cars on foreign grounds, thus paying workers a much lower salary and saving costs on operations.
We have to think of Trump as a father of a family - the US citizens being the family. Everything that his family has worked hard to achieve, would he be willing to give it to a "stranger"? Let's think it ourselves: you are the owner of a family business, and you know your sons or relatives are capable of getting the job done. Would you rather hire a stranger than your own relative? The answer is most obvious for everyone.
I for one think that NAFTA will not disappear, but we will see major changes under Trump presidency.
Other Trump claims
Trump was know to encourage racism towards hispanics on several occasions, such was when he shown dislike for the spanish languge, telling Jeb Bush' wife that she should speak English, as well as when he disregarded Univision journalist Jorge Ramos.
Overall opinion
Trump controversy is mostly what led him to win the US elections. In fact, many of his controversial statements will bring major changes to Mexico's economy. The overall consensus among mexicans is that Trump is racist and evil. I could agree on the racist part, but I must admit: his actions are not truly evil.
His whole campaign revolved around his slogan, "Make America great Again". But if I was given the chance, I would change it to "Make America great Again - for those legally living in America".
This is what is happening in Europe and I'm really glad to see that there are people out there from these countries that aren't being taken in by the media's bullshit. Unfortunately it really is like that, and the political class is just so fucking out of touch that they think these people who are coming in are just all poor refugees and migrants looking for a better life.
A percentage will just be normal people, but unfortunately it looks like the majority of them are frankly fraudsters looking to get welfare ( They target the UK in particular for this reason, going through several countries to get here ) or they are in some cases even dangerous as we have seen several attacks here in Europe.
I don't know how bad the situation is in America, personally I would gladly have Mexicans flooding my country rather than fanatical Muslims that want to kill us all and take over the country however here in Europe even if there are 'officially' border checks and migration controls in place with the way the political class has been blatantly ignoring and not checking the people pretty much swarming the border it's absolutely no wonder things have gone to shit the way they have.
I think the word you're looking for isn't necessarily 'racist', it's racial stereotyping. If Trump were to actually enact his policies and treat people differently in the law based on their ethnicity, then yeah, he'd be a racist.
The problem is the left in particular have been fucking around with the definitions of just about everything when it comes to politics so basically if you even make a dumb joke about Jews for example that's going to get you pinned as an evil neo-nazi. The same goes for all sorts of stuff like rape or sexual assault, they've expanded that definition and they genuinely consider words to be violence.
People need to just start making their own fucking opinions up about people like Trump, if he fucks up, fine, call him out on it and give proof. However don't resort to the fucking outright slander or hysterical bullshit like the media does over every little thing said especially when it's designed to piss them off in the first place.
It's getting so bad now that I'm actually having to defend Trump and even right wing Christians because the character attacks are just blatantly made up and unfair. Most people in regards to immigration just want proper checks to be done at the borders so dangerous people can't come in, it's amazing really how the left in particular has decided that anybody who doesn't want to get shot or decapitated is now a racist.
You are right, and racial stereotyping seems like a better word, although sadly, Trump did make some people who are actually racists rise against hispanics.
I share your opinion, Trump just wants to make sure the borders are safe, and hence his country is safe. Mexico has a lot of problems to deal with it, that I can assure as a mexican. Other countries should not have to suffer the consquences of our bad goverment.
I am really hoping that the situation in Europe gets better. As for America, we shall see what will happen in the following years with Trump government.
I know it must seem ridiculous, but it's really nice to see that coming from Mexico, because all we hear in the media constantly from the Mexican president and so on is how anybody who wants immigration control is an evil right wing neo-nazi and it is just total bullshit.
I suppose the ironic thing is because we really are getting the most dangerous lot from these countries is that I think your countries are probably going to end up safer because they're all coming over to our countries now instead to cause havoc because they know they'll get away with it.
I honestly think that's what's going to happen with ISIS, which is why things are going so well in Syria right now, ISIS as an organisation isn't necessarily that large but like most of these organisations there were plenty of Jihadists coming over to fight for their cause. These people will have seen the tide turning months ago and melted into the local population like they always do.
Sorry, I come at this from the European perspective because I'm British, so I don't know too much about the troubles the Mexicans and Americans are dealing with but compared to fanatical Muslims I would have thought that Mexicans would be pretty nice by comparison.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, upvoted and following you now.
That first photo of Trump looks like he's midway through taking a dump, lol
Thanks.
I know right, I had not realized his face looked like that on the first photo lol.