Dear Sir,
Even though I have made my home in Mexico for over 20 years, I still maintain a U.S. passport, file a U.S. tax return, and even file a Mexican tax return. I collect Social Security and pay into Medicare. I have family and friends in the United States, and both Mexican and foreign friends here in Mexico.
When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold. I read in the Reporter that some retirees here believe U.S. citizens shouldn’t protest U.S. politics while living in Mexico. “We all moved here to enjoy Mexico, leave it all behind—these people need to relax,” one person commented last week.
But what is being protested is not just U.S. politics—it is world politics.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has acknowledged that it’s important to discuss U.S. domestic affairs because they affect not only Mexicans living in the United States, but also her fellow citizens here and people around the globe.
What does it mean when the U.S. agency called ICE is dragging people down the street, locking them in cages, shipping them off to foreign-run contract prisons, and denying them due process, the right to go to court, and the protection of the law? It means the United States is no longer a democratic republic. It has become a fascist state.
Many people dismiss history, but they should remember the famous lesson from World War II: First they came for the Jews, then the Catholics, then the gypsies … and finally, no one was left to speak for me.
U.S. policies and actions are a threat to the world—and that includes me and my adopted home, Mexico.
M. Rosenblum