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© 2006 Laurence A. Elder
"We can't infringe upon the right of people to move freely within our territory," said Mexican President Vicente Fox during President George W. Bush's recent visit. Earlier, Fox said he stood by the statement he previously made to the BBC: "I dare say that in 10 years, the U.S. will be begging, will be pleading with Mexico to send it workers."
Does Mexico practice what it preaches?
First, Mexico put its military and police forces on its porous, zigzagged, mountainous, crime-ridden southern border with Guatemala. Chiapas – the South Carolina-sized southern Mexican state that shares the longest border with Guatemala – is Mexico's poorest, most illiterate state. About Chiapas, one United Nations human rights commissioner said, "Mexico is one of the countries where illegal immigrants are highly vulnerable to human rights violations and become victims of degrading sexual exploitation and slavery-like practices, and are denied access to education and health care."
Typically, when Mexican authorities catch illegal aliens, they place them overnight in a detention center, then bus or fly them back to their country of origin. Despite the fact that Mexico militarized its border and deported 203,128 illegal immigrants in 2004, many illegals get through by bribing corrupt military and police.
Do Mexicans appreciate the way America has allowed so many poor, Mexican illegals to enter the United States? No. According to a recent Zogby poll, 73 percent of Mexicans call Americans "racist"! When asked whether the United States' wealth comes from freedom and "plenty of opportunity to work," 70 percent of Americans agreed, while only 22 percent of Mexicans agreed. Sixty-two percent of Mexicans said America became wealthy because "it exploits others' wealth." While Americans, according to the poll, see Mexicans as hard-working (78 percent), Mexicans think of Americans as racist, intolerant and not very hard-working.
Racist?
Mexico should look in the mirror. According to the Houston Chronicle's Rachel Graves, around the turn of the 17th century, Mexico imported more African slaves than anywhere else in the New World. As a result, tens of thousands of blacks (no one knows for sure – the Mexican census does not recognize them) live in Mexico, mostly in destitute villages in its poorest states. An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 blacks live in Costa Chica.
How do they fare? According to the Houston Chronicle, many are illiterate, struggling to get a decent education for their children from government schools. One Costa Chica missionary says, "The kids here are considered by their teachers to be largely unteachable." When stopped by the police, Mexican blacks are often instructed to sing the Mexican national anthem to prove their citizenship!
If so many Mexicans consider Americans racist, why do polls show that nearly half of Mexico's inhabitants say that their lives would improve if they could work here illegally?
Intolerant?
America legally accepts about 1 million immigrants per year, with perhaps as many as 12 million people living here illegally, about half of whom come from Mexico. Many estimate that 500,000 or more people enter the country illegally every year. California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is Hispanic. So is the man who holds the powerful position of speaker of the California Assembly. Los Angeles, America's second-largest city, has a Hispanic mayor, and of the 54 members of California's congressional delegation, nine are Hispanic. The former governor of California once proposed granting driver's licenses to illegals. And in California, under some circumstances, an illegal alien can apply for the cheaper in-state college tuition. Many predict the Hispanic governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, former Clinton Cabinet member, will run for president.
Not very hard-working?
According to the International Labor Organization, Americans work more than almost anybody in the developed world, including Japan. The average American worked 1,824 hours in 2004, compared with the Spanish at 1,799 and the French at 1,441 hours. The Dutch put in even less – working 25 percent fewer hours than Americans.
President Bush, against the wishes of many in his own party as well of half of all Americans, makes the reasonable case for a guest worker program that would allow or provide some sort of legal status for those living here illegally. Latino "activists" do that cause harm by staging protests and waving the Mexican flag and demanding their "rights." For example, Juan Jose Gutierrez of Latino Movement USA says, "We think that the right thing to do is to grant full rights, full equality, under the laws in the Constitution of the United States, to all immigrants, period."
Americans raise legitimate concerns about the competition illegals pose to unskilled labor, and that illegals cut in front of people already waiting in line to get in the country legally. Americans resent expenditures for illegals on education and health care, and problems posed by some who commit additional crime in America. Illegals' attitude of entitlement helps to explain the growing anger Americans feel toward illegal aliens. Students leaving high schools, waving Mexican flags and chanting "Si se puede" do President Bush – and their "cause" – no favor.
That's an interesting thread over there. Got lots of threads opened... scrolling through TM for updates on illegals, etc.
Monday, here in Houston, suppose to be at least 10,000 Mexicans/supporters protesting the immigration reform legislation. Candle light vigil and all. We've been talking our fool heads off to anybody and everybody that will listen this weekend. AND... we got our Secure Our Borders car magnets in from Grassfire on Friday. :::Hope and pray nobody keys my new car::: ;)
~Cheshire cat smile~
P.S. I suggest adding 'wardaddy' if he's not already on your superpatriot ping list! :)
~Cheshire cat smile~
P.S. I suggest adding 'wardaddy' if he's not already on your superpatriot ping list! :)
"Should the situation escalate, we may come under pressure to appear* to be doing more for our nationals affected by the virus."
Beware the appearance of the stiff upper lip!
LOL!!
I am reading a book about the 1918 flu pandemic. I don't think the government of anywhere are ready for the likes of that. Thing is, back then, people were much more self-reliant.
Oh .. lol .. and now I'm in the windy city .. ;) Where r u?
That was a good article. 30% of our prison population believed to be illegals. Good grief!
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Glad I finally found this post... been looking, scrolling through this thread for it... knew it was in here somewhere!!
Tnx, JP!!!!!! I appreciate this work you do summarizing the days finds!
Yep, scary statistics, huh. I've read both sides of the arguments. That many illegals occupying our prison systems is ridiculous. I think a good way to counter the trend, would be to release them back to their own countries and let them deal with it. Just think of the money we would save, and the problems, like say, Mexico would have! Liken to, what Fidel Castro did to us?
IMHO Napolitano is taking a huge chance all for the sake of her ego and the democratic party. I couldn't believe she said she planned to watch from her 9th story office. She is clueless and, from what *Zogby* says ahead of Goldwater in the polls.
Except in a multitive effect... explosive exponent. Think they took notes... and went for the gold.
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"Muslims Muzzling Memphis"
The American Thinker ^ | April 7, 2006 | Brigitte Gabriel
Posted on 04/08/2006 3:20:04 PM PDT by quidnunc
Effecting US economy... and American market basket. So, screw Tyson... I'll find another brand. Let the Mexican's protest their "slave" conditions.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/04/010943print.html
April 08, 2006
Official: Iraq in 'Undeclared Civil War'
Sunni/Shi'ite Jihad Update from AP:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services.
With sectarian tensions rising, U.S. Marines on Saturday beat back the largest attack in weeks by Sunni Arab insurgents in the western city of Ramadi — another sign of the crisis facing this country three years after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces.
The car bomb exploded at a small shrine in the Euphrates River town of Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad. Police said most of the six dead and 14 wounded were Shiite pilgrims visiting the shrine.
Posted at April 8, 2006 05:54 PM
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2006/20060408_4765.html
Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill Taliban Commander, Destroy Headquarters
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2006 – Afghan and coalition forces killed a senior Taliban commander April 6 and destroyed a Taliban district headquarters this morning in a series of ongoing offensive operations in southern Afghanistan, military officials there said.
A joint coalition force killed the senior Taliban commander in the Musa Qaleh District in northern Helmand Province. The commander was tied directly to dozens of improvised explosive device attacks that killed and crippled multiple Afghans since 2001. He also was responsible for the deaths of Afghan and Coalition soldiers, officials said.
We "effectively disrupted the command and control of Taliban fighters in the northern Helmand and Uruzgan Provinces," said Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, commander of the Coalition's Combined Joint Task Force-76. "This is another step in creating stability and supporting local governors."
Freakely noted that Afghan and coalition operations are designed to "to support the Afghan people and prevent the Taliban from killing innocent citizens, burning schools, murdering mullahs, and stopping progress and governance in Afghanistan."
In ongoing operations this morning, coalition forces used close-air support to destroy an insurgent headquarters in the Sangin District of Helmand Province, killing a second known Taliban commander and one of his subordinates.
"We conducted an air assault into the known enemy compound following the air strike to gather intelligence," Freakley said. "Once our ground forces seized the objective, we confirmed that two Taliban were killed, and we captured two terrorists. These extremists offer nothing to the people of Afghanistan but violence, intimidation and fear."
No injuries to civilians, coalition and Afghan forces were reported, and Afghan and coalition forces are continuing offensive operations in Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul provinces.
The captured terrorist leader promoted fear and intimidation and was directly tied to attacks on Afghan civilians and government officials, Freakley said. He also was linked to several improvised explosive device attacks aimed at Afghan civilians, government and coalition security forces.
Freakley and his troops are confident that Taliban extremists in southern Afghanistan can be located, targeted and destroyed. We "have the initiative and will continue to conduct offensive operations in southern Afghanistan to disrupt and destroy Taliban leaders and their cohorts," Freakley said.
This operation, he added, "demonstrates the growing strength and capability of Afghan National Security Forces, [when] partnered with coalition forces, to systematically improve the security and stability of Afghanistan."
(Compiled from various news releases.)
OPINION:
Note to "Murasel"
Cut the propaganda Murasel.
Use your talents for something good and
useful.
That's my opinion -- and it's right on target.
ON THE NET...
STATE.TRAVEL.GOV - CONSULAR INFORMATION SHEET: MEXICO
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060408/images/met_exec280.jpg
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20060408-9999-7m8kidnap.html
"Korean-American took gun while captors were dozing"
By Anna Cearley and Diane Lindquist
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
April 8, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TIJUANA – A high-level U.S. executive who was kidnapped after crossing the border managed to escape yesterday after grabbing a revolver while two kidnappers were dozing.
MIGUEL CERVANTES SAHAGUN
Two toy pistols were found at the house in Tijuana where businessman Yong Hak Kim was held captive. Kim took the revolver from his abductors while they were sleeping.
Yong Hak Kim, a U.S. citizen who was born in South Korea, locked his abductors in a bathroom of the house where he was being held and ran outside for help, Mexican authorities said.
Kim was picked up by police after a resident called authorities to report a street disturbance. Hours later, as he was en route to the United States, Mexican authorities announced the detention of five suspects in connection with the Thursday morning kidnapping."
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