During a recent speech to the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi slammed the proposed border wall and praised Mexico, calling it a “heightened civilization.”

Chamber members visited with Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol, where she told them, “I am philosophically, politically, officially, personally, religiously, spiritually opposed to the wall,” as attendees applauded.

She said the northern Mexico and southern U.S. towns are a “community with a border going through it.”

She continued, “The exchange of ideas, kids going to school, the commerce, family, all the rest of that.”

Pelosi called the proposed wall a “cowardly act” and said we can have border protection with technology and “manpower,” before she corrected herself and called it “person power.”

She said a wall “dishonors our responsibility to our hemisphere.”

Pelosi told the Chamber members she took a delegation to Mexico City last year to talk trade.

She said as they were greeted by the president, she thought, “What a heightened civilization we’re in here. Mexico is such a fabulous place!”

Pelosi said she wished critics could go there “to see how much benefit we get — culturally, in every possible way from our relationship.”

But is Mexico really a “heightened civilization” as the Democrat leader claims?

CNS News reported:

Individuals run a greater risk of being violently murdered in Mexico than in the United States, where the population is more than three times larger than its southern neighbor.  

Mexico’s secretary of Interior, Francisco Blake Mora, said there currently are 12 violent homicides registered for every 100,000 Mexican residents, as reported in the Nov. 10  El Universal, a Spanish-language newspaper in Mexico.

In other words, about 1 in every 8,300 residents is violently murdered in Mexico.

In Mexico, as in the United States, a violent murder is differentiated from a “justifiable homicide,” such as may occur through self-defense or when a felon is killed by a police officer in the line of duty. Murder in Mexico, as in America, refers to the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.

FBI data show that in the United States, “There were 5.0 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2009, an 8.1 percent decrease from the 2008 rate.”

Further, Mexico is home to the fourth most dangerous city in the world.

According to the UK Mirror, Acapulco has a 104.73 murder rate per 100,000 residents. The most dangerous city in America — St. Louis, Missouri — had a rate just over half that: 59.23.

Mexico has a higher infant morality rate, as well.

According to the World Bank, the United States has only 6 infant deaths per 1,000 births in 2015, compared to Mexico’s 11 deaths per 1,000 births.