“I’m at a point in my life that I don’t care if I ever go to the U.S. again,” a chef in Mexico tells L.A. TACO. “And I dare to say the way I feel is the way millions of Mexicans feel.” The full story: lataco.com/americans-mo...
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I don’t want them to come here. I want everyone to stay away while this country is under renovation. Just act like we’re remodeling the bathrooms and it’s unlivable. Let the tourist industry crumble. It’s less than what we deserve while we allow the orange buffoon get away w his ish. Viva 🇲🇽!
jul 23, 2025, 8:22 pm • 3 0 • view
“Emigrating” to Mexico
jul 23, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I lived in rural Mexico 🇲🇽 for eight years. Loved it, but it wasn’t easy. ♥️♥️
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, friendlier and freer
jul 23, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
i may yet wind up in mexico sometime in the next few years. i’ve lived there before and love the country & the people. never thought it would be potential asylum though!
jul 23, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly how many Canadians feel. I being one. Will never go there again. Elbows up . The damage he is doing now will last generations after he is gone. Love your neighbour as yourself..unless you are a follower of Trump's evil cult
jul 23, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't blame him/them. I don't even want to be here, but I'm too old to relocate.
jul 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Interesting but of course they would .
jul 23, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Canadians as well. Stay strong Mexico 🇨🇦💙
jul 22, 2025, 11:36 pm • 3 0 • view
yup, and jacking up housing prices. freakin Whyte people ruin everything
jul 23, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
No one can argue with them. But this country is poorer and less interesting without their presence, even for just a visit. I hope they know many Americans respect, love and miss them❣️
jul 23, 2025, 8:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Mexico should limit migration from the US. We are pretty undesirable and would take resources and jobs that should go to the Mexican people.
jul 23, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Why even when Mexico is on the cultural & financial upswing w/her new President!
jul 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Mexicans are smart to stay away from the U.S. Sure you have criminal cartels to worry about... but at least you didn't elect them to BE your President and Congressmembers.
jul 23, 2025, 7:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't blame you a bit!
jul 22, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
We don’t blame you. Many of us are sorry.
jul 22, 2025, 8:22 pm • 7 0 • view
Yep, all of this. And some of us are fighting, and while there are wins, they're of the form "could have been a lot worse".
jul 22, 2025, 8:34 pm • 3 0 • view
To say "ever" You dont have the ability to compartmentalize the difference between people and govt Please don't come back, idiot
jul 22, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Maga is breeding the hate. You can let your feelings succumb to them. Millions of partners lost
jul 22, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
The government are the ones who are going to throw you into immigration detention though
jul 22, 2025, 9:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Not forever We will be putting the traitors in Guantan A LARGO within 6-8 years That's why never or ever is shortsighted. Our relationship w/ Mexico will be stronger than ever after the traitors flee So don't let the maga hate, breed personal hate. It makes you weak. We won't want your business
jul 22, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think they're hating the US, just not thinking about it as a place worth visiting anymore. And hey, when Trump's out of office, all the traitors and insurrectionists are going to go to jail, right? Just like what happened the first time he left office, right?
jul 22, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
No offense friend. That wasn't the point. We already understand that this is what our govt is doing
jul 22, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Your country has been treating non-affluent immigrants like dogshit for literally decades. Shut your narcissistic ass up.
jul 23, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
1000% Every time I go to Mexico and see that wall I think...that wall is in the wrong direction. Amen.
jul 23, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Mexico is on the great ((fun) side of the wall
jul 23, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup
jul 22, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
My old roommate from the old days retired two years ago and moved down and he said he’s only coming back for funerals
jul 22, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
We're moving at the end of August and there's a period between arrival and issuance of green card (about a month) where you need to stay in the country or start process all over again. Hoping my 94 y.o. mother-in-law hangs in there until process complete.
jul 23, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Fingers crossed!
jul 23, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 23, 2025, 7:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Don't count on it! They will cover everything up, they always do!
jul 23, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I understand.I wouldn’t care if I left and never saw it again. Trump‘s regime has brought out the worst in a segment of our population.I’ve always loved Mexico and its people.Most of us do love Mexico and its people.I would love to move there.I’m not certain how welcomed I would be as an American.😢
jul 23, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I have no intention of ever visiting the USA again.
jul 23, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
If my husband’s health wasn’t so bad and we have to live near a VA Hospital, we would have move to Mexico years ago!
jul 23, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
We all love their new leadership and hate our taco
jul 23, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
U.S. government under Trump is heinous. Dispicable Unconscionable Cruel Inhumane Sociopathic Monstrous Indefensible Chef, & the millions who feel the same: may you walk with beauty before you, behind you, to your right, to your left, above and below you. May you walk with beauty all around you.
jul 23, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
That makes me so sad…and angry. As a teacher, so many of my students have family in Mexico. And I love visiting there, Mexico is so beautiful. But I get it, especially while having to calm scared students whom we will do our best to protect, but…
jul 23, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
We Canadians are feeling the exact same.. There is no reason to visit that hellhole of a country both Mexico and Canad have so much more to offer ourselves and each other.
jul 23, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
They should be sure to keep their US Citizenship and ability to vote, if they wish to come back to the real USA post Trump and his minions.
jul 23, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you day drinking Steve? There is no USA post Trump. They should learn to speak Spanish and become Mexicans.
jul 23, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s giving the magats a victory. But I get it
jul 23, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Baja for us if California doesn't secede.
jul 23, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
If I had the $ I’d be there… its a wonderful Country & the people are friendly, funny & kind.!
jul 23, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 22, 2025, 10:28 pm • 10 1 • view
Exactly what Canada is doing.
jul 22, 2025, 11:38 pm • 5 0 • view
I want everybody to critically think as hard as they can We've had enough emotions
jul 22, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel the same way. I would love to move away from the US.
jul 23, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I will truly hate the America trump and miller have planned for us.
jul 23, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
That's what I'm doing, got my residency visa in June, my move is scheduled for just before Labor Day.
jul 23, 2025, 7:43 pm • 12 1 • view
They will use this to justify what they are doing
jul 23, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
As you should. My country’s behavior is ignorant, disrespectful, and you are right to be upset by it. I have never been so ashamed of the USA as I am now. We love to lecture people about morality while our king betrays our values every day.
jul 23, 2025, 7:09 pm • 10 1 • view
America is now a sh**hole country. Cape Verde in Africa ranks higher by Democracy Watch than the USA!
jul 23, 2025, 7:34 pm • 6 1 • view
Y'all know this is the point of all this garbage, right?
jul 23, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Millions of Canadians 🇨🇦 as well and I’m one of them.
jul 23, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Canadians are feeling the same way.
jul 23, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Very sad. This was their home. They are part of the best of the fabric of our society.
jul 23, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Can you blame them! I heard this same thing from Canadians,Mexicans,Britons, and French, to name a few countries. Trump changed America from a nice vacation destination. To a police state, where foreigners have been detained for no reason. I don’t know what it’s going to to take, to end this BS !
jul 23, 2025, 6:55 pm • 13 1 • view
No doubt. If the billionaire-White Nationalist alliance is going to force the rest of America to live in their dystopian “shit hole country” (to borrow a phrase), why not live in one with a much cheaper cost of living?
jul 23, 2025, 8:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Yep… my spouse and I just returned from Puerto Vallarta. We are looking at property there and also in Mazatlan. I never thought I would say it’s time to leave my own country, but I don’t know if I can stay under this regime.
jul 23, 2025, 7:42 pm • 10 1 • view
Moving to the Lake Chapala area at the end of August, got residency visa in June.
jul 23, 2025, 7:45 pm • 7 0 • view
Glad you are taking the necessary steps. My spouse and I are looking into all options. It’s just so sad, scary and frustrating. The worst part, is leaving family/friends who can’t leave (no passports) or those who are choosing to stay anyway.
jul 23, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Moved to current location in Oregon about 10 years ago. Men here tend redneck/trumpy so I haven’t really established a male network but wife has a large circle of girlfriends so it’s gonna be much harder for her. Our besties are a lesbian couple, afraid to visit us and not be able to get back home.
jul 24, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
Not just Mexicans. No one I know in the uk has any intention of visiting the US.
jul 23, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view
What do Mexicans think of um Ericans moving in? I don’t think they want gringos making Mexico their home. #Gentrification
jul 23, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I believed that you were asking a question. Sorry i misunderstood: you were just betting ignorant! My bad
jul 24, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
The question was for Mexicans but thanks for interacting!
jul 24, 2025, 12:06 am • 1 0 • view
Having lived here for a couple of years, I’m not agreeing with you
jul 23, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Depends where you go: Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlán love Americans & Canadians (money). I didn’t feel too welcome in Queretaro (being the only white person). But feel very welcome in Guadalajara, or Ajijic. I see the issue in Mexico City, but i never had a problem there, it’s beautiful…
jul 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I did move here, i did not buy. I rent. There are beautiful furnished apartments, or homes for half the price of living in the USA
jul 23, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly! Now go ogle gentrification in Mexico! They are talking about you!
jul 23, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
You posted it: why do i need to look it up!
jul 23, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 23, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Hyuk!
jul 23, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Better food. Better beaches. Better people. Better government. Remember that “wall” he promised? Is citizens are going the other way over it.
jul 23, 2025, 7:38 pm • 17 0 • view
That is exactly what these fascists want. The whole purpose of everything they do is to “bleach” american society.
jul 23, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm at a point in time where I would move to Mexico. U.S is under attack from within.
jul 23, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
it's a shithole everyone is thinking about leaving you stayed in nazi germany you were stupid there is a point where you can't get out
jul 23, 2025, 7:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I do not blame him and that makes me so angry that this criminal regime is treating people this way. We are stronger for our Mexican immigrants.
jul 23, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It'd be nice if people would wake the phuck up and understand that what the USA is today was built on the backs of immigrants regardless of where they called home previously.
jul 23, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes it would. But at the bottom of this it’s racism.
jul 23, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m an old white American male living in Guadalajara: i hope that i never return to USA as long as that pig is alive.
jul 23, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I have decided to stand and fight as long as I can, but if I legitimately MUST flee, Mexico seems very nice. I would worry about my impact as an American showing up looking for help, though. Especially after how we have treated people coming to us.....
jul 23, 2025, 8:22 pm • 3 1 • view
Sigh, right?
jul 23, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I went to Tijuana once at age 15 on a family trip in the 60's. We went in a restaurant and had a coke.
jul 23, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m concerned about a brewing anti-gringo backlash in Mexico.
jul 23, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
And having Mexican and other people around the world NOT wanting to come to the US is Trump’s goal. He wants America White, Christian, poorly educated, and culled of all people with “bad genes”
jul 23, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
President Sheinbaum, liberate Alta California from American tyranny and my life is yours.
jul 23, 2025, 8:07 pm • 9 0 • view
If we can't go on our own, this would be the best case scenario.
jul 23, 2025, 8:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I would absolutely prefer to go on our own, but beggars can't be choosers. Whatever gets us out of this America bullshit is adequate.
jul 23, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Concur. Mexico has some issues but they are working on them.
jul 23, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, folks. We went a little crazy up here.
jul 23, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Americans don't cut and run, We stand and fight. What's wrong with you "Americans?" Have you been bullied, intimidated, frightened, or are you just plain cowardly? Does ignorance play into this scenario? We the People must rise, resist, rebel, & revolution. Revolution is the solution.
jul 23, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view