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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.

Good point. Shows you know something, but....

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:

they work in jobs that employers can show were not wanted by US workers, with no current challenges by US workers,
that they must return to their country of origin once every year for two weeks,
that they are healthy having no communicable diseases,
that they are drug-free and immediately deported for any drug violation with no possibility of returning to the US,
that they are never income taxed in any form at any level by US or local authorities except for money they are taking out of the country,
that they are given a shot at US residency and citizenship in the same manner as any other immigrant,
that children they give birth to on US soil are in fact citizens of their country of origin and not US citizens,
that they are not given access to any of our government benefits with exception of emergency medical treatment within limits,
that any license or US document they obtain clearly show their migrant worker status,
that they must abide by US, State and Local laws and if found guilty of violating laws that their migrant visa will be suspended for a length of time commensurate with their law violation.

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.

Great, but who cares what he says. As to mexican politics...they are all losers to a degree.

I agree with your statement except for this part -

“...I don’t have a problem with him standing up for Mexicans and their interests, even at our expense, THAT IS HIS JOB...”

No, blaming the U.S.A. for internal Mexican problems isn’t his job. He is supporting reconquista, and that is a good basis for the U.S.A. to declare war on Mexico.

I definitely do not think he is doing his “job”.