Word: border
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico can never afford to forget that the U.S. exists. It can never stop thinking for a single moment that the U.S. is there, on the border, next door. This is an inevitable consequence of the tremendous asymmetry that exists between Mexico and the U.S. We have to think obsessively, constantly, recurrently about the U.S. The U.S. only thinks about us every now and then, and most of the time for the wrong reasons...
...were Mexicans angry about the ditch that the U.S. has said it will build on the border near San Diego? Doesn't the U.S. have the right to protect its borders against illegal immigrants...
...water; it has crocodiles, piranhas, or sharks. The idea of a ditch to stop emigration from Mexico is one that shakes Mexicans because it reminds us that so many of our people have to go, and it shows how vulnerable we are to a closing off of the border. But it ignores the fact that there is as much of a demand for Mexican labor in the U.S. as there is a supply of it in Mexico...
...Americans are often angered by what appears to be Mexican complacency in combatting the flow of illegal drugs across the border. How do Mexicans view the U.S. drug problem...
...much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...