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I'm afraid I only know a little on this one, but I can offer an article!
https://today.usc.edu/how-mexico-offered-freedom-to-the-enslaved-people-of-the-antebellum-south
Mexico had banned slavery in 1837, long before its northern neighbor. The nation’s laws granted enslaved people access to freedom as soon as they set foot on Mexican soil. Mexican officials also refused to return runaways under the U.S.’s Fugitive Slave Act.
Fun fact: that's why rich white Americans living in Texas rebelled
Assigned Male at Mexico
All Carloses Are Beautiful
yeah but they're now living in mexico
tacos, German beer (you know, from the mercenaries), and priority land ownership for citizens of Mexico.
beaches palm trees and surfing.
great food, casual attitudes, and a un beatable joie de vivre.
yeah. I'll take Mexico
Del Enter
As opposed to the alternative of being a slave or in prison in the "Land of the Free"?
I think he's joking. There isn't anything actually wrong with living in Mexico.
Mexico is awesome, but for some reason about half the US electorate thinks it's a hellish place. So no, it's not obvious that they're joking.
Too many of these morons think California, Chicago, et al. are shitholes too. Parts are, just like Mexico or anywhere else, but these idiots think the entire is shitty. Too aggressively ignorant and dumb to understand any type of nuance.