Mexico seems to hold a rather shocking double standard on deporting illegal immigrants. While they denounce Donald Trump for saying he will build a wall along the American southern border, and say that they will not be funding this wall, Mexico deports about 90% of its own illegal immigrants. Hypocrisy much?
The Daily Caller reports:
While many Mexican politicians including President Enrique Peña Nieto decry GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s proposal for a border wall, the country reportedly deports nine in 10 Central American illegal migrants south of its own border. Univision reports that Mexico strictly enforces its own immigration laws through strong border security which has led to deportation of 87 percent, 92, percent, and 97 percent of illegal Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan migrants respectively.
Over 43,000 Central American migrants were deported during the first four months of 2016. Of these, over 9,000 of them were minors, and 85 percent of them were deported.
Why should we be concerned with all of this? For two reasons.
First, most of the immigrants who were caught trying to enter Mexico this year were trying to get through the country so they could cross the Mexican-US border. Ultimately, their goal was to get into America illegally.
Secondly, while it ultimately benefits us that Mexico is deporting the majority of their immigrants, there is a blatant double standard here from the Mexican government and politicians, as multiple politicians have stated that the Mexican government will not be financially supporting Trump’s border wall.