Reality Check At The Mexican Border

All the Biden haters and Trump lovers are screaming in horror at what's happening at the border. But I'll bet almost nobody considers how it all happened. There's an irony in the current immigration conundrum.

I wonder if all those Trump followers who are so up in arms know anything about the "Mexican War of 1846." Just in case you don't know - or haven't thought about what that war meant - here it is:

The United States of America started a conflict with Mexico, an in-turmoil and weak southern neighbor, to steal half that country's land. To be fair, the USA tried to buy what it wanted at the outset. But when Mexico declined, the US concocted a thinly-veiled ruse to make it appear that Mexico started the war in a transparent attempt to legitimize taking the weak kid's lunch money.

Ulysses Grant, no dove himself, wrote home from the front that his country (the US) stood on some very low moral ground in prosecuting the war he was a part of. It was all a bad joke to grab a huge chunk of territory that included present-day Texas, Arizona, California, and parts of Colorado and Nevada.

Thus, what you have now is Mexicans trying to cross the border into what was once their very own country. If the US hadn't stolen the territory in the first place, it wouldn't have its current problem.

With respect to all the Central Americans attempting to come to the US, some of Trump's supporters might consider that the US has meddled in elections and regime change in that neck of the woods for generations. You reap what you sow.

I find it curious that the US is so offended by the Russians meddling in America's electoral process when the US has done exactly that in Central and South America for decades. Centuries even!

And now America is paying the price for its imperialism. The problem isn't about to go away anytime soon.

Here in America, we have a lot of jobs Americans are too spoiled and entitled to take. I don't get why some citizens would turn away people who just want to work. Isn't immigration what made America great in the first place?

Now, all the people who collect disability payments when they aren't disabled have something to say about America reaching out to poor people willing to work for their food? Sounds about right given who 74 million people voted for a few months ago.