I moved out of Mexico about a year and half ago into deep south Texas in order to stay warm and have inexpensive rent but not be in Mexico. And supposedly because I was going to watch the Starship launches in person but I am too lazy and broke for that.

This article makes me think I should definitely find another completely different inexpensive area to live when the lease runs out.

But the recommendation to build a wall and hope you can choke them off doesn't sound very promising. I also personally think part of the problem is the extreme wealth disparity between the countries. And I know people will say that is because rich Mexicans hoard wealth more or something but that's only part of it.

I just don't think you can have a "real" civil society without effective government. Despite how horrible we know government to be, we can see the alternative in Mexico today.

My own opinion is that it's a humanitarian crisis that doesn't actually stay outside of the US anyway, and at some point we need an integrated and functional cross-continental American government and much more relative equity in income between regions. And if you can approach that then maybe you can work on a reversal of the criminal culture.

My suspicion is that a lot of this is getting worse with deteriorating real-world economics.

I am interested to hear about this "build a wall and choke off the demand" thing could really work out in the long run. It doesn't sound effective or humane.