This video shows you the Mexican perspective on American migration into Mexico. Mexicans are demonstrating en masse—and none of this is being shown in the US media*—about the Americans who come down to Mexico as migrants, install themselves as remote workers ("digital nomads" who aren't really that nomadic, but who are parasitically settling in Mexico to take advantage of cheaper goods and services at the expense of the indigenous population) and leech off the Mexican economy (maybe not for their salary, but for clothing, food, etc.). Mexicans want these people out. Otherwise, they expect the Americans in their midst to learn Spanish (only fair since we Yanks generally expect immigrants to learn English), pay in pesos, and pay local taxes. Oh, and stop with the gentrification (although I'd say that that requires the complicity of the local government/authorities who allow the migrants to settle among the established Mexican community so as to get gringo cash).
The video presenter, Anton Daniels (the black Anthony Daniels?) also contrasts the overt, unabashed racism of the anti-American protests (which the US leftist media are at pains not to reveal to American viewers—look at all of the anti-white signs and graffiti in the video!) with the lax American attitude of "we're cool if you're among us, but be here legally."
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*This was true when John first sent me the link. Some US media may have reported on this since, but I doubt that much was made of the news.
I'm glad I chose the Philippines! Foreigners (and our cash) are very welcome here. But if you f*** up (like Vitaly), there is no forgiveness, and hell in the form of a Filipino jail awaits.
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