Posted on 02/12/2007 5:06:39 AM PST by T.L.Sink
Los Angeles is the second-largest Mexican city in the world. It makes little sense to screen tourists, inspect cargo containers, and check the passenger lists of incoming flights, when our border remains porous. It is absolutely correct that the best way for jihadist cells to cross into the United States is from Mexico.
At the same time, focus has turned more to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, in whom illegitimacy, school dropout rates, and criminal activity have risen to such [high] levels.
Since 1990 the numbers of poor Mexican-Americans has climbed 52 percent.
Half of births to Hispanic-Americans were illegitimate, 42 percent higher than the general rate of the American population.
Education levels reveal the same dismal pattern - nearly half of all Hispanics are not graduating from high school in four years. Of those who do graduate, only one in five will have completed a high school curriculum that qualifies for college enrollment. Meanwhile, one in three Mexican-American males between the ages of 18 and 24 report being arrested, one in five has been jailed, and 15,000 illegal aliens are currently in the California penal system.
Even the influx of illegals into our quiet valley has become a flood. I have had drivers leave the road, plow into my vineyard and abandon their cars, without evidence of either registration or insurance. On each occasion, I've seen them simply walk or run away from the scene of thousands of dollars in damage. Similarly, an intoxicated driver who ran a stop sign hit my car broadside and then fled the scene. Our farmhouse in the Central Valley has been broken into three times. We used to have an open yard; now it is walled with steel gates on the driveway.
Such anecdotes have become common currency in the American Southwest.
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Mexico is a failed state. We are in the process of annexing it. No one dares see it, let alone say it. The culture and government of Mexico cannot provide even bare subsistence for its underclass; hence, they are sent here with a wink and a nod.
If we are going to be burdened with the Mexican underclass then we should have the rest of the country too. Not all at once, but we can buy choice parts, invest in what is viable and let the Mexican upper class (usually more Spanish than the population) drift back to Spain with their resources sold out.
Wouldn't it be easier to cross from the Canadian border--it longer and less populated (at least in the middle and west of the border)?
The north is still relatively less populated--and wealthier (so for your idea, that could be the area to initially focus on). Then again, it is also largely desert.
swinneyswitch, is your pinglist only for South Texas and the part of Mexico near Texas, or is it about South Texas and all Mexico? If the former, then sorry for the ping.
I've contended here before that the real reason the US govt insists on an open border policy is because jobs in the US act as a pressure relief valve for a dysfunctional Mexican govt. My theory is that our politicians would rather have unchecked immigration on our borders than revolution in Mexico. Frankly I think it's a stop gap measure if indeed that is the reason for open borders because, like you, I think Mexico is a failed state and revolution there is inevitable (again).
"...This is sound economics, but examine the ethical message: Mexico City will send the United States millions of its own illiterate and poor whom it will neither feed nor provide with even modest housing, but at the same time it welcomes thousands of Americans with cash to build expensive seaside second homes...
Mexico is a failed state. We are in the process of annexing it. No one dares see it, let alone say it. The culture and government of Mexico cannot provide even bare subsistence for its underclass; hence, they are sent here with a wink and a nod.
If we are going to be burdened with the Mexican underclass then we should have the rest of the country too. Not all at once, but we can buy choice parts, invest in what is viable and let the Mexican upper class (usually more Spanish than the population) drift back to Spain with their resources sold out.
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this is not what the globalists have in mind. what they have in mind is first a north american superstate and then a new world superstate. In both cases americans move toward being ever more powerless.
I agree. That's why I'm supporting Tancredo. I know there are some other good guys - like Hunter - but Tancredo was courageously fighting the fight long before it became popular to do so with some Republicans.
He's also very much in the Reagan tradition on ALL other issues: smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, etc.
Bush seems to be anxious to reverse the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican War in 1848!
You can ping me on anything related to Mexico or Texas.
Probably need a book titled "Mexas"!
this Pres. and klintoon both failed in their duty to the Constitution in regards to the national security threat represented in article.
"the US act as a pressure relief valve for a dysfunctional Mexican govt"
Agree totally...add in the fact that we need their flow of oil which cannot be interrupted.
I've wondered about that myself but from all I've heard Canada (with all its crazy politics) at least cooperates with us in looking for terrorists. Mexico would give bin Laden one of its maps showing the best points of entry!
*BUMP*!
While politicians and academics assured the public that illegal aliens came here only to work and would quickly assume an American identity, the public’s own ad hoc and empirical observations of vast problems with crime, illiteracy, and illegitimacy have now been confirmed by hard data.
The problem is metastazing across the US. It comes down to whom to you believe, the elites and politicians or your own lying eyes? God help us if we have an economic downturn and the unemployment rate rises.
Its the other way around. Lifeboat America is being flooded by the poor and undeducated of Latin America. We are the ones being invaded and "annexed."
"I've contended here before that the real reason the US govt insists on an open border policy is because jobs in the US act as a pressure relief valve for a dysfunctional Mexican govt. My theory is that our politicians would rather have unchecked immigration on our borders than revolution in Mexico. Frankly I think it's a stop gap measure if indeed that is the reason for open borders because, like you, I think Mexico is a failed state and revolution there is inevitable (again)."
I think drugs play a major part too - if we were to truly seal the border, the drug lords in the Southern Hemisphere would be incensed - there is billions of dollars at risk here. They would be prompted to act.
And, from reading about the recent travesty over the two border agents, the drug smugglers are working hand in hand with our border agents, and I'm sure a lot of politicians in Washington have their coffers filled with drug money one way or another.
I'm sure that's just a part of it, there's so many people who need the border open, and the politicans need the money from those people. That's why our borders are a joke.
Nice country we have - our government looks the other way while our borders are ignored, so companies can make more money off cheap labor, then lecture us that we're racist and bigoted when we complain that our cities are being turned into third world hellholes, and more of our taxes will go to pay for people who were'nt born here, don't belong here, and sneer at us and our culture and our laws.
It's all about $$$, whether it comes from building contractors paying off local politicians or drug profits paying off Washington. That money is more important than our rights, our safety, and our culture.
Just shut up, pay your taxes, and smile and be polite to that smirking Mexican who's leering at your daughter in the 7-11 parking lot. Ain't multiculturalism great?
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