Never, ever did I have bed bugs in any of our apartments growing up or in my house in middle age ... UNTIL I had a Mexican renter in one of my rooms who worked in migratory construction during the Great Republican Recession. Boom then they started taking up their positions! When the man moved out his mattress was saturated with bed bugs and in the three years since they've move-in all over the house.
This is NOT A STEREOTYPE but is based on cultural reality! Many Mexicans refuse to cover their mattresses with bed SHEETS and instead sleep directly upon the bare mattress itself until it becomes so old, dirty, torn up or all three that it is unusable! This includes employed men who have enough money to buy bed sheets, they simply CAN'T BE BOTHERED to add them (or wash them) No wonder they infest the world with mites, cockroaches and bedbugs!
This proves the obvious that Mexico is a very backward, third world, tortilla republic (that NEVER modernized enough to eradicate the pests as America had traditionally done) which sends it's worst North across the border. Drugs, guns, slobs, liars, junk food addicts, litter specialists ... and
BEDBUG ARMIES to hotels, motels, hospitals, apartments, rental houses, jails (anywhere there's a "bed") This means that the Border Patrol now has a NEW JOB which is to don rubber gloves, vapor masks and subject all apprehended invaders to a soaking-down spray of Bengal Flea Killer spray or DDT, etc. whichever is handy! (then teach then what a waste basket is used for too!)
