It shares thousands of miles of border with Mexico that is its only route of access from the South, and so, as the former dictator of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, used to say, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States."
Dijeli granicu od više tisuća kilometara s Meksikom koji je jedini pristup s juga, te je stoga, bivši meksički diktator,  Porfirio Diaz govorio: "Jadan Meksiko, toliko daleko od Boga  i toliko blizu SAD-u."