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Most in the US see Mexico as a partner despite border problems, an AP-NORC/Pearson poll shows (apnews.com)

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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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[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

U.S. adults are more likely to have an unfavorable (38%) view of Mexico’s leadership

I wonder how many of those can even name Mexico's president

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because most people know Mexico is our most important ally and the majority of issues in Mexico can be directly traced back to America.

[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of North America should be seeking to deepen their ties and trade. US politics has been the number one hurdle to greater cooperation with our nations.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I would kinda rather have a nice happy North America. I don't want problems with Canada or Mexico. Like let's be the cool continent.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I say, let the confederate states have their own country and the US and mexico have a shotgun wedding.

[+] werefreeatlast@mastodon.social -8 points 1 year ago

@MicroWave although, as a former Mexican of the brown persuasion I see it as a form or prison. Plus you too can get kidnapped down there. Or worse. I would let things settle down for a few million years.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Sure there's crime but there is a fun correlation between crime south of the border and illicit intake north of the border and there sorta always has been.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 1 points 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?

[-] werefreeatlast@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why can't you sell your house in Mexico?

[-] werefreeatlast@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] werefreeatlast@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@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.

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