Most people in the U.S. see Mexico as an essential partner to stop drug trafficking and illegal border crossings, even as they express mixed views of Mexico’s government, according to a new poll.

The poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about two-thirds of Americans see their southern neighbor as having at least a friendly relationship with the U.S. Relatively few within that group, or 16%, consider Mexico a close ally. Meanwhile, U.S. adults are more likely to have an unfavorable (38%) view of Mexico’s leadership than a favorable (12%) one. The remaining responded they did not have an unfavorable or favorable view or were not sure.

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    1 year ago

    Interesting! Although I’ve heard of crime being intense and more often, I’ve never heard it described as a prison. What makes you say that?

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      @BackOnMyBS well if you are American like me, you can work your butt off to buy a house one day. If you don’t like the neighborhood, you can actually sell your house and move. Ofcourse this means you will pay 5% and 10% that to the realtor, and the bank and uncle sam…do you are basically setting your self up for highway robbery when you sell. But in Mexico, you can be born to a family that has a house or you can build one on your dad’s land. You can’t easily sell. Certainly you can’t escape.

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        @BackOnMyBS even if you can escape to the US like I did by just shear luck and a ton of work, you still can’t easily sell your house. Currently, and I know this from personal family experience, if you sell your house in Mexico you get very easily Targeted. Here in the US, you get mailers from the renewal by Anderson folks and the Jehovah’s witness club down the street. In Mexico you get kidnapped, taped, tortured etc just so you will turn your profit to some cartel people. It’s awful.

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          @BackOnMyBS at least in my town down there they got “aguilas” or spotters. If you take a bus down there, they will immediately spot you off the bus and follow you to see who you are. They then figure out what your business is and maybe how much money there’s in between. Then they probably try to figure out who they can extort to get them to pay ransom for you. Or maybe you got the money and they will take you gramma and as for ransom. It’s just such a no go country for anyone right now.