Posted on 09/11/2010 5:01:45 AM PDT by Son House
Meanwhile, the White House approves a one billion dollar loan to the Mexican oil industry while starving our own domestic industry here at home. In their willingness to blame everyone else but themselves for the troubles they have caused, the Mex prez and the USA prez are strikingly similar.
Evidently not often enough. We should have a bounty and get private citizens involved.
Oh geez. Do you know anything about Mexican political culture? Calderon is probably the least corrupt Mexican politician in the last 60 or so years. I don’t have a problem with him standing up for Mexicans and their interests, even at our expense, THAT IS HIS JOB. His job isn’t to please us or defend our interests. But I have a huge problem with the fact that OUR government and OUR head of state does not stand up for US and defend our interests.
By design.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is spelled H - Y - P - O - C- R - I - T - E.
slimely mexican scum alert...again.
No, not at the border, but somewhere else in Mexico.
Shovel ready job.
Mark
Mexican soldiers have been known to SHOOT their illegal immigrants from Central America. And they complain about OUR policies. Holy double standard, Batman.
“Mexico Lashes Out at U.S. Immigration Practices”
MUCK FEXICO!
Senor El Presidente...beso mu culos pendejo...quiete’
85 inmates escape from prison in Mexico
From Gustavo Valdes, CNN
September 11, 2010
A massive manhunt is under way in northern Mexico as authorities search for 85 inmates who escaped from a prison in the border city of Reynosa, state media reported.
Antonio Garza Garcia, head of the Tamaulipas’ detention facilities, said the break happened shortly after 4 p.m. Friday when the men used a ladder to clear a wall and quickly vanished through the streets around the prison, Mexico’s state-run news agency Notimex reported.
According to a state official cited by Notimex, 66 of the fugitives were serving time on federal charges, and the rest were serving time for lesser violations.
Two prison guards are missing, and 44 were detained under suspicion of corruption, Notimex said.
Garza Garcia said the detention facility in Reynosa was design to hold 400 inmates but is currently housing about 1,700 prisoners, according to state media.
Reynosa is across the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas. [snip]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/11/mexico.prison.break/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
perhaps you and nearly all of the US Press forgot the heroism of those 72 migrants? That they were shot en masse for refusing to be drug carriers?
And Calderon appeared not to make any mention of this fact. Shame on him.
I know the problem is the US government immigration policy. Yes I said it! But it's not the immigration amnesty policy being pushed by the ruling class.
It's the whole friggin US tax, social welfare and vote buying system that is corrupt.
I have no problem whatsoever with honest Mexican and other honest Latino migrants coming here to work.
In fact I am for open borders! There I said it!
But not the type of open border policy that current open border proponents advocate.
But open borders with Mexico is achievable, but not for a long while until the drug cartel problem is addressed.
The open border vision I have is of millions of Latinos documented with migrant visa worker cards, with strict laws that require:
that children they give birth to on US soil are in fact citizens of their country of origin and not US citizens,
This vision is not new. It was in place in generations past. The Mexican worker came to the US, was paid in cash and returned home to live like kings because their cost of living was so low. The migrant worker of yesteryear had little inclination to become a US citizen. They simply wanted to save their money, go home, buy land, build a home, get married and have children in their homeland.
What we have today is an abomination of policy, with US pols clamoring to tag these migrant workers as cattle, tax them, make them vote as a block for more government and less freedom, confer all manner of human rights for political purposes such as a right to healthcare, a right to adequate housing, a right to a living wage, a right to citizenship on fast track, and so on. All of these things are result of an American and Mexican ruling class creating a government problem rather than addressing the migrant problem.
The problem is a government problem.
As for the present state of affairs, it is a Mexican problem that they allowed these international sophisticated Columbian gangsters within their borders and allowed them to put roots in the nothern states of Mexico.
This was a paid-for migration of rich Medellin cartel members to enter Mexico and use their ill-gotten money to back politicians running for office in these northern regions, pay them protection money.
As Calderon's forces prosecute the corrupt pols in the north, those pols are caught in the crossfire. On the one hand they are guilty of harboring criminals, on the other hand they risk crossing the cartel mobsters that have paid them off. So there are assassinations taking place.
And once a cartel leader is killed, the young criminals move in to fill the ranks and they shoot at each other as they fight for the leadership.
Calderon needs help and he is not asking for it. And his conferring blame to US immigration policy is wrong and not helpful. He needs to articulate the problem in Mexico, be honest and truthful about what has gone on, stop blaming the US in any manner and seek international military and police help to put the nothern regions under martial law.
President Felipe Calderon doesn’t care one twit for the “migrants.” All he cares about is the money they send home.
I say we put a 50% tax on money transfers to Mexico. We could use that money to pay for the costs of illegal immigration. Maybe we could reopen a few hospitals.
Calderon said in an interview Friday that last month's massacre of 72 migrants doesn't undermine Mexico's moral authorityBuilding the fence would ensure that there would be no more controversy about the massive flow of illegal immigrants who, quite wisely, don't want to stay in the hellhole that is Mexico.
They obviously have no shame or they would actually feel some at the way their fellow countrymen are fleeing Meh-ee-ko in droves.
Great, but who cares what he says. As to mexican politics...they are all losers to a degree.
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