Most Bizarre 'Flex' in the World?

This probably isn't the most bizarre flex in the world, not because it isn't really bizarre, but because there are so many insane things said that it is hard to identify one as the worst. 

But it likely makes it into the top 20. 

I believe you are wrong. I think Mexico, India, China and the lot flex precisely by exporting their people to America. They lower their social safety net burdens by putting them on us. They infiltrate America culture, work force, and corporations with an overwhelming wave of…

— Adriezy (@Adriezy1) June 8, 2026

Claudia Sheinbaum, the leftist President of Mexico, spends a lot of time criticizing President Trump for limiting immigration and kicking out illegal immigrants, and one of her arguments is that Mexicans are a great asset to the United States, and another is that it is her duty to protect Mexicans at home and abroad. 

Now I happen to think that a lot of Mexican immigrants ARE an asset to the United States, and that we shouldn't lump them into the same category as Somalians or migrants from the Middle East or Pakistan. They are much less likely to commit crimes and much more likely to support themselves. 

I strongly disapprove of illegal immigration, but I don't have the same instinctive distrust of Mexicans as a class that I do of "South Asian" refugees and illegal aliens, who should be presumptively excluded from the United States except in extraordinary circumstances. 

But Sheinbaum's arguments that Mexican illegal immigrants have a right to be here because they contribute to the United States are not the flex against Trump she thinks. When she notes that 40 million of her citizens have fled Mexico in search of greener pastures, that is an indictment of her country. That many of them came here illegally while facing the dangers inherent in crossing cartel-controlled territory tells you all you need to know about the state of her country. 

She should focus on why they flee and fix it. If Mexico really is exporting its hardest-working citizens—and that is hardly the only group who come here, of course, since we get plenty of the worst as well—then she is admitting that Mexico is a failed state. There are prosperous pockets in Mexico, but much of the country is a hellhole of crime and poverty. 

Presidents of failed states shouldn't be lecturing presidents of countries that attract so many people. 

Ironically, Mexico has far harsher immigration laws than the United States, and works very hard to ensure that "refugees" from other failed states don't settle on its territory. When there is a migrant caravan originating in Panama, Mexico ushers them through its own territory and ensures that they exit at the United States' border, or at least they did until Trump put a stop to it. 

It tells you quite a bit that people from poverty-stricken Latin American countries choose not to settle in Mexico, and when the border closed, so did the migrant caravans, and they almost completely evaporated. Mexico is not the garden spot Sheinbaum wants you to believe it is. 

The spectacle of Sheinbaum getting on her high horse to berate the US for not taking in Mexico's citizens isn't exactly persuasive. 

"My country sucks so much that we send the people who can build a country and make it prosperous away." Hmm. Says something about your country, and it isn't good. 

Of course, Sheinbaum is upset about Trump's deporting illegal aliens to Mexico because she knows the ones most likely to be returned are NOT the best and the brightest. They are the criminals and those who associate with them. Obviously, it's not only the criminals, since all illegal aliens are deportable, but plenty of them are, because the pastures here are greener both for hard-working people and the criminals who prey on American citizens. 

The Mexican government doesn't control much of its territory because it has ceded its sovereignty to the cartels. The society is corrupt. Its economy, while not failed, is hampered by that corruption and regulations, and has an ethic of mañana. Don't do today what can be left to tomorrow, or next year. 

It's easier to export people than fix those problems, so that has been the policy for decades. It works for them, especially because remittances from Mexicans in the United States are an important part of the economy, and since much of that money goes to the poor, it relieves social pressure. 

If Mexico were really a great place to live, 30% of its citizens wouldn't have fled to the United States. 

Nayib Bukele has demonstrated that you can turn a failed state into a successful one, so it's not like Sheinbaum has an insurmountable problem. Mexico is not a poor country by any means. Cleaning out the rot would be difficult, but not nearly so difficult as doing so in El Salvador. 

But instead of focusing on that, Sheinbaum chooses to lecture us. No thanks. 

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