65 Percent of Mexicans View U.S. Negatively, Survey Finds

In this New York Times article, it mainly talks about the general Mexicans’ opinion towards U.S right now. According to Pew Research Center, which has done a survey among 37 countries, Mexico shows the biggest drop in positive views towards the U.S.  People’s negative opinions of the U.S strikes up to 65 percent this year from 30 percent last year. As the research center puts it, the increase in the unfavorable view towards the U.S mostly relates to the President’s Trump’s policies and his signature campaign promise. For instance, up to 94 percent of the Mexican people oppose his plan of building the Great Wall across the Mexican and U.S border and only 5 percent of the Mexicans support the president and believe he is doing the right thing. Despite the unfavorable view towards Trump, most of the Mexicans still want to immigrate to the U.S.

This article is interesting and indicative, not only because it tells us a lot of people unfavorable attitude towards the President Trump, but also indicates us that, despite the not-so-optimistic political situation between two countries, people still want to settle down in the U.S. This survey of the recent repeal of DACA. a lot of undocumented immigrants are facing the problems of deportation. I think this is detrimental to the people who were brought here since they are children and they have lived in the place 20 years. It’s not their fault of coming here and become an undocumented immigrant. If those people are to be deported to the country where they have no emotional or mental connection with, they would feel a sense of loss of national identity. They are strangers to their homeland! They have already been rooted with the ideology of being American and the emotional tie they formed with the country is hard to cut through. To put it another way, Deporting them would be like to the send the children away from their adopted parents, who they spend 20 years with to the biological parents, who they left 20 years ago.

Deporting those “Dreamers”, indeed, would help the President Trump keep his campaign promise, but the benefit only rests on that. I could not see any more advantages of implementing this policy, so do the Mexicans.