Mexico May Pay for the Wall after All!

Last updated on: March 14, 2020 at 7:45 pm by Kermit Zarley

Mexico May Pay for the Wall after All! 2020-03-14T19:45:56-07:00 Kermit Zarley

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Mexico may need to build that wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that U.S. President Donald Trump is always harping about that he is trying to get built. He’s doing it to keep immigrants from illegally crossing from Mexico into the U.S., mostly to find a better a life.

In Trump’s political campaign for the U.S. presidency during late 2015, he proclaimed publicly for the first time that Mexico was to blame for “tremendous infectious disease . . . pouring across the border,” which he often repeated thereafter. Another time the self-professed germaphobe wailed, “tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border. The United States has become a dumping ground for Mexico and, in fact, for many other parts of the world.”

In late 2018, thus as president, Donald Trump exclaimed, “One of the problems that people don’t talk about, you have a tremendous medical problem coming into our country.” Soon after that Trump complained that “large scale crime and disease” was being transported across our southern border.

Yet Trump, as so often, never provided any factual data to support such claims. Rather, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention had always been screening the vast majority of immigrants for medical conditions who had been entering the country. But Trump must have meant illegal immigrants.

Now, the world is quickly being engulfed in a pandemic with the infectious, novel coronavirus designated COVID-19, which is extremely contagious. It started in the city of Wuhan, China, late last year. Over 4,000 people have died China from it in only a few weeks. Now, Europe is becoming another epicenter of the disease. Italy is in total lockdown, where COVID-19 has flourished so strongly that the mortality rate is about 6% of those who knowingly have it. However, epidemiologists estimate that many times more people in a country have this virus, but they don’t know it simply because they have not been tested for it yet. There has been a scarcity of testing kits.

As of yesterday, over 2,000 people in the U.S. had been tested for this coronavirus and the results came back positive, meaning they have the disease, and about 50 people had died from it in only about the past four weeks. Yet yesterday, Mexico only had a total of nineteen known cases of COVID-19, and no one has died from it yet. So far, regarding this coronavirus, it is safer to live in Mexico than it is in the U.S.

Indeed, Mexico’s health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatel said yesterday in a media conference, “we would have to take into account not that Mexico would bring the virus to the United States, rather the United States could bring it here.” In fact, countries are announcing on a daily basis that they are not allowing any foreigners to enter their country.

Could U.S. citizens begin flocking southward to Mexico to escape getting COVID-19? If so, Mexico could have an illegal immigration problem from its northern neighbor. MEXICO THEREFORE MIGHT NEED TO BUILD THAT WALL TO KEEP US OUT. That would prove Trump right, with him always saying, “MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL!”

U.S. Illegal Immigration

U.S. President Donald Trump

Previous Post

March 13, 2020

Trump's Coronavirus Speech Today Helped and Hurt

Next Post

March 18, 2020 Coronavirus Taking Its Toll

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Angels Billy Graham Blog Description Book Reviews Christian Living Christianity Christology Church History Current Events Deity of Christ? Disarmament Eschatology Evangelicalism Ezekiel 38-39 Film Reviews God Golf Gospel Harmonization Health History Holy Spirit Incarnation? Interview Islam Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jesus Last Empire Literary Announcements Major Championship Winners Masters Monotheism My Books New Testament Old Testament Politics Primitive Weapons Ryder Cup Science Society of Biblical Literature The Bible The Restitution of Jesus Christ Trinitarianism Trinity? Uncategorized Unconditional Love? War on Terrorism

Select a Month October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

What was the first plague in Egypt?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Water turning to blood Frogs Hail Darkness

Books by This Author Books by Kermit Zarley Blog

See All Titles »