US Expats in Mexico: Will We Be Thrown Out? Nobody Knows What to Expect Bernard Wasow - The Globalist
go to original December 3, 2016

What will happen to Americans living in Mexico if the hostility toward Mexican-Americans is put into action? (Peray Stephane/Facebook)

A rather somber group of expatriates celebrated Thanksgiving together at a spectacular restaurant overlooking the small town in which we make our home in central Mexico.

Only two dozen of the several hundred Americans living in this pretty village in Michoacan state participated.

All of us are apprehensive about just how Donald Trump, the soon-to-be U.S. president, will go about implementing his aggressive statements toward Mexico and Mexicans. Nobody knows what to expect.

For all the hot exchanges during the just concluded 2016 campaign over immigration and North American economic integration we are part of a population that has got almost no mention: U.S. citizens who live in Mexico.

True, our fate is not likely to be as tragic as the millions of Latinos living in the United States who stand to suffer if Trump’s threats are carried out — mass deportation, seizures of remittances and stop-and-search tactics directed toward anyone suspected of being Latino. Still, we are anxious.

Quite amazingly, nobody knows exactly how many Americans live in Mexico. The U.S. State Department reports the number of one million.

Various categories of U.S. citizens in Mexico are so diverse that it is almost impossible to get solid alternative estimates.

Take a look at some examples at The Globalist

Related: Mexico and Trump: Trump Isn't a Problem to Be Solved, He's a Reality to Be Faced (Mexico Voices)

Related: Donald Trump Is the Greatest Threat to American Democracy in Our Lifetime (The Nation)

Related: Keith Olbermann Says Donald Trump Is 'Insane and Cannot Assume Office' (The New Civil Rights Movement)

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