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RJ SingingHawkON MIGRANT-ING:Much of my 20's was spent in Mexico. First, as a missionary in Senora and later in Veracruz. I gave birth to two of my babies there while raising my older son. Gonna tell you MY experience as a migrant in the country that is not migrant friendly. So it's pretty interesting how much criticism the same country is giving us for implementing some of their own policies.First, one CANNOT travel south of the border cities without a tourist visa AT LEAST. Every bus, plane, and longform transportation requires both a Visa and a valid I.D. EVERY traffic stop requires showing papers. Long bus rides are often stopped by Federales and one is required to present a visa if a foreigner. If not presented they will remove the foreigner from the bus or plane. I hate to even know how that turns out when that happens.Though my husband was a Mexican citizen, there were NO FREE SOCIAL SERVICES for us. No medical care. No public school. And unless it has recently changed, foreigners cannot even OWN property near the ocean or border (supposedly for national security.) Real Estate must be purchased through a bank trust. ALL hospital services must be PAID in full each day or one will be EVICTED. When one of my littles busted his head open, the private transport required payment in ADVANCE before taking the bleeding child to the hospital ( the public ambulance never arrived).After moving back to the states, my boys often visited their dad in Veracruz at Christmas-time. We usually drove from McAllen to Reynosa or Monterey, then took a direct flight or bus to Veracruz. I then stayed a few days in MX with the family before returning to work. On one of these trips my 3-year-old did not have a PHOTO I.D. Yes, in Mexico, most children have photo IDs as well.We were not allowed to travel for lack of that ID and we missed our flight. We then returned to McAllen and a friend made my son a fake I.D. I repurchased our tickets the next day. Mexican officials accepted the I.D. and allowed us travel. I still have that little card. I'm pretty sure he was the youngest child ever to use a fake I.D.🤣When I lived in MX, soldiers were constantly stationed at the southern border in Chiapas. Immigrants crossing the border from Guatemala were physically stopped, and often shot at. This is because Mexico did not want to be inundated with undocumented foreigners.Some of my expat friends from various countries desired to become Mexican citizens (many were married to Mexicans). They were required to go through a lengthy and costly legal process. This process included criminal background checks. I suppose it's fairly easy to bribe officials to get things done another way. But that's a whole other issue to be explored.When my boys were born in Mexico, I had to make an appointment with the U. S. Consulate and travel to Mexico City WITH the baby in tow. (Anyone who has traveled to Mexico City or on a bus with a baby feels my pain.) I then waited in line for 6 to 8 hours OUTSIDE the embassy gates in the heat with a nursing newborn while I waited to be called in.When it was my turn to see a representative, I had to prove I had been pregnant with the child and show my medical history. I was then subjected to questioning and even physical examination if they so chose. With one of my babies I had recently suffered salmonella poisoning and had become very thin. Though born tiny, this particular baby had grown to a whopping 25 lbs and just 4 months. They did not believe the huge baby was mine nor that I had recently given birth.My children are of Asian descent and looked as much. One of my children was denied the birth certificate and we had to travel back to Veracruz and get photos of his descendants as well as more documentation from the pregnancy. These birth certificates are "reports of birth abroad." If lost or stolen it is a huge issue to get them replaced. Almost all of the 8 to 10 million migrants who crossed our borders in the last 4 years crossed through Mexico. The cartels have made BILLIONS of dollars trafficking these people. Most indefinitely remain indentured servants, sex workers, or drug mules in order to pay off their debt to these thugs. And we aren't even addressing the HUGE rise in drug trafficking.The millions of migrants that we received were not vetted, background or medically checked. My Mexico friends were not happy with the situation either. Imagine the chaos they too experienced the last few years as millions as MILLIONS of unknown people inundated their states, streets, and homes to get to our border. Hmmmm, I wonder who was paying off officials and politicians in Mexico...This great country of ours is constructed of migrants. My own former husband is a migrant. He had a Master's degree, was already married, and we had a child before he was granted a green card. Oh, we also had to have $100,000 in the bank or a sponsor who would commit to support us for 3 years. This was 1996. It took almost 5 years for him to get a permanent residency card. And ten more to become a U. S. citizen. And I won't even go into the medical exams he had to take.Do I have plenty of opinions about the last administration? Sure do! But I'm not going to share them right now. I just want to remind those who are ignorant of global policy that almost all other countries have strict immigration policies they happily (and rightfully) enforce. The very fact that we took hundreds of thousands of violent felons, predators, gang members, and known menaces from around the world, then used valuable tax dollars to transport, house, feed, and provide medical care is absolutely ridiculous. Especially considering our elected "leaders" refuse to do the same for our own veterans who were willing to DIE for their country.