Mexico and the US. So close to each other and so far from God. Pobre México. Tan lejos de Dios, tan cerca de los Estados Unidos. Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States, has been a lamentation oft repeated by Mexicans to describe their fate of being intertwined with the United States. Decades of observing Mexico, both from the town where I was raised, McAllen, Texas, and from traveling throughout Mexico extensively, tells me that this chorus of lamentation may have to change to “Poor Mexico. Poor United States. So close to each other and so far from God.†And I think tha...