OPINION:
With a $1.29 trillion economy, Mexico is a wealthy country, but it has great poverty due to an inequitable distribution of wealth that is worse than that of the U.S. It incentivizes many Mexican nationals to enter the U.S. by any means necessary. Aside from the economic benefit of the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico, which exceeds $111 billion, Mexico derives significant economic benefit from illegal south-of-the-border drug money, human trafficking and legal and illegal aliens sending remittances to family members from the U.S.
As a conduit for illegal immigration from Central and South America and indeed and the rest of the world, Mexico has no incentive to control its borders.
WILLIAM T. FIDURSKI
Clark, New Jersey
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