Imagine you live in a place where dozens of college students, packed in a bus, disappear one day from a backwoods part of some southern state.

And then it turns out that leaders of a nearby town ordered local police to kidnap the students and turn them over to murderous gangs. The worst you can think of happens after that.

Can you just imagine how the rest of the state, and the rest of this country would react?

So add to this calamity, a country wracked by endless unemployment, pernicious poverty, and raging drug-gang wars that frequently end up with executed and even beheaded innocents all over the country. The topper? Entrenched government corruption from the dog-catcher on up.

What would you do if you lived in such a place, and after the federal government investigated the kidnapping for weeks, exposing endless tales of sadistic corruption, they shrugged?

You would move. I would move. The wheels are coming off in Mexico, and we need to help them, or they’re increasingly going to be coming here. I would.

Millions of Mexicans feel like the war against everything there is a losing battle.

They even have a meme and hashtag for the hopelessness. “YaMeCansé” or “I’ve had enough.” It’s close equivalent here is, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

The Mexicans are mad as hell, and they should be. Things are very bad, and it’s not just the hand-wringers who say the rule of law is failing all over the country.

Before you say, “too bad, so sad” and move on to tonight’s TV sitcom lineup, think it through. All over the world, refugees head for the border when things get bad enough. And when bus loads of college kids get murdered at the hands of the government, and nobody seems to be outraged enough to do something about it, things have gotten bad enough.

The Mexican attorney general told the country that after weeks of investigation, it looks like the 43 missing students, learning to be teachers, were kidnapped, murdered, incinerated, and what was left was dumped in a river. Allegedly, the mayor of Iguala and his wife saw the students as activist troublemakers and wanted them out of the way to keep them from spoiling their own political plans.

You’ve seen the trouble that  a few careless or incompetent cops can cause here. Imagine if American police were systemically in cahoots with roving drug gangs.

The Mexican government has essentially lost control of large parts of the country, and it will only be time before a new wave of Mexicans come looking for sanctuary, and they won’t be heading south. Who can blame them?

But knowing how Mexicans emigrating from their country without credentials sends so many in this country right over the edge, it really is time to solve the immigration problem here, and help solve the chaos in Mexico. Like so many troubled places in the world, the problem is bewildering, and the solutions will be, too.

But if you think it’s ridiculous that we would go out of our way to get involved in thorny problems in Mexico, rest assured that unless we do something, now, those problems will soon be ours.

— Dave Perry, editor

23 replies on “PERRYBLOG: Mexican mayhem will soon be ours unless we act fast”

  1. If Mexicans had the same right to bear arms, this would not happen.

    The knights templar drug cartel was run off by local militias in the state of Michoacán. The locals defied the law, armed themselves, and fought off this very vicious cartel. I think we should be encouraging Mexicans to protect themselves through a an international right to bear arms.

      1. Mexico, not the US, needs to respect the natural rights of Mexicans to own the means to defend themselves. This sitution can only be solved by Mexicans realizing that socialism is death.

      2. Yeah it does seem an uprising needs to occur. The problem is we are already sending gun, a large percentage of the guns in Mexico comes from US straw buyers.

  2. A noble cause, but I don’t see much logic, any facts, or even a plan in this article.

    First off the Mayor of the city where the 43 were murdered is already in Jail. As are many others. So the Mexicans are doing something.

    Secondly, Immigration policy in the US has nothing to do with decades of corruption, crime, and lack of opportunity in Mexico. Only they can make change happen.

    Lastly, Dave is confusing Central Americans with Mexicans. Central Americans are the ones coming here to escape crime. Mexicans by and large come here for jobs and/or to reunite with relatives. Escaping crime is well down on the list. They are plenty of safe places in Mexico to live, just no jobs.

    With 122 MILLION people in Mexico there is no way we can fix their problems via money or anything else.

      1. Yes you can. Start enforcing the immigration laws. If people start being deported and barred from ever reentering the US they will not take the risk of circumventing our ports of entry and laws.

          4. Another instance of you trolling my comments. I just hate people that are calling our democratically elected president a Marxist or stupid people like you calling him a dictator. You’re a moron.

      2. The bill that stalled in congress would have been a good start. Make it too risky to hire illegals (fines and worse for repeat offenders), and give police the power to cite and/or arrest on status alone depending on the situation.

    2. I think the idea of this article was to report of the human side of mexican immigration and get people talkiung. He is a reporter, not a direct influence on our immigration laws no plan needed. on your points:

      First you’re right they are starting to do something. We will see if the right people end in jail time though the death penalty seems right.

      Second Its not its not that immigrarion policy is affect by these its that the influx of Mexicans fleeing their county because of decades of corruption, crime, and lack of opportunity in Mexico.

      Third unfortunately no he is not confusing south / Central America with Mexico. You are mistaken if you think escaping 120,000 lives lost due to the cartel wars, or seeing your friends beheaded because they speak out against cartels, or seeing truckloads of decapitated people not to mention being slave traded into smuggling drugs at risk of them killing your children and loved ones as a reason not to flee you are insane. Cartel related killings and crime is not down the list.

      Lastly we seem to be able to spend billions of dollars in some a hole middle eastern country where literally everyone hates us, why wouldn’t we try and build schools hospitals for places in a literal war zone in our next door neighbors country. Leave the middle east and start getting this cartel out.

      1. The illegals are creating the same corruption here in the US by them coming into the country illegally and advocating for politicians to ignore the law. If they wanted to improve things that should advocate against the socialism that has devastated their country for the past 90 years rather than import it to the US.

        1. Not so much corruption as adding to the cycle of poverty in certain communities. There is no way poor communities (aka the hood) that illegals typically end up in can properly assimilate the firehose of Mexicans that will be coming in the next couple of years as a result of Obama’s brilliant executive order. For every 1 that goes to college probably 4 will end up in street gangs if not prison. The other 5 will end up in low paying jobs that don’t contribute to the tax base.

      2. #2 Huh? Reread what I wrote. We are saying the same thing.
        #3 Do a little more research on that one. If you ask a Mexican and someone from Central America why they came you will get very different answers. C.A. has 10x the crime of Mexico.
        #4 While buildings (schools/hospitals) would be a nice gesture how is that going to make a blimp on their unemployment rate, let alone reduce corruption or “get the cartel out”? You may recall that we have yet to solve our own issues with poverty among certain demographics and that organized crime ran a muck for almost 100 years here. Mexicans made their mess and they will have to be the ones to fix it.

    1. It is a generational issue. School the kids with the carrot of going back and raising their country up. Yeah, not gonna happen.

  4. Today’s Mexico is the terminal state of a socialist revolution that happened 90 years ago. It is an example of what a secular progressive utopia will evolve into. If we wanted to help Mexio we would pressure their socialist government to recognize and respect their citizens rights like the right to bear arms and defend themselves. The main reason the cartels can inflict such violence is that only a small minority of the populace is armed: the police. If there was more widespread ownership of firearms by average citizens then these mass murders would not happen. This is the primary reason it would not happend here, unless of course some liberal created a gun/defense free zone where many college students reside.
    I find it interesting that the progressives are only taking notice fo the violence in Mexico when some college students get murdered. Where were they over the past several years when over 100,000 people were murdred and many more went missing? It is a truism with socialism that even though it professes care for the peasants many of them end of murdered after after the revolution.

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