Posted on 05/28/2008 7:16:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday will join governors from both sides of the border in Mexico City to push for more action on crime-fighting and border security, a visit that comes as Mexico is facing unprecedented violence.
Schwarzenegger will offer support to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his crackdown against the drug trade, in which he has deployed more than 20,000 federal troops across Mexico.
Cartels have responded with increasingly bold attacks against security forces, including beheadings and assassinations of top police officials and soldiers. On Tuesday, seven federal officers were killed in a shootout with one cartel.
Beyond policy talks on security, economic development and the environment, it's not clear what Schwarzenegger and the governors of Texas, New Mexico and the six Mexican states hope to accomplish.
The coalition made a similar appeal to President Bush in February, but progress has been slow.
The federal meetings are part of a new agenda for the decades-old border governors conference, a nod to the reality that the federal government controls the U.S. border and the Mexican government can determine what happens on its side.
Schwarzenegger's administration says the partnership and continued pressure already have produced some results.
Federal Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff has boosted the number of workers at key border crossings, dramatically reducing wait times at some of the busiest border crossings.
The coalition also seeks a six-month extension of Operation Jump Start, the partnership between the National Guard and U.S. Border Patrol. Under it, about 3,000 National Guard troops have been deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border, about half the number sent to the border states when the program began in mid-2006.
The Bush administration has been noncommittal about its plans for Operation Jump Start.
Bush has used the wave of violence in Mexico to further an anti-crime legislative package. He is urging Congress to approve the first $500 million installment of a $1.4 billion law enforcement aid package known as the Merida Initiative to combat drug crime in Mexico.
Calderon has called on American lawmakers not to put further conditions on the funding. Schwarzenegger wants to see some of the money go to help U.S. states fight drug-related crime.
California will host the annual convening of governors from the six Mexican border states and four American states next August in Los Angeles. Although such meetings have taken place for 26 years, last year was the first time the political leaders agreed they needed to broaden their actions to include joint requests to federal officials.
Schwarzenegger has long pushed for federal action on immigration and to resolve the status of some 11 million illegal immigrants who already live in the United States.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, sponsored a failed attempt at immigration reform last year that would have created a path for some illegal immigrants to become citizens. Schwarzenegger has endorsed McCain's candidacy.
Democratic presidential rivals Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton supported McCain's 2006 bill, and all three also have supported a border fence.
California's economy relies heavily on migrant workers, primarily from Mexico. The issue hit home for Schwarzenegger on Wednesday, when he made an unannounced appearance in Lodi at the funeral of a young woman who died after picking grapes for eight hours in triple-digit temperatures last weekend.
In a strongly worded statement, Schwarzenegger said the death of 18-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez was preventable. He said California employers must adhere to the regulations the state has put in place to prevent heat illnesses, including providing water, allowing regular breaks in the shade and having an emergency plan in place.
"Where there are violations of these regulations, we will prosecute employers to the full extent of the law," Schwarzenegger said in a statement after the funeral. "There is no excuse for failing to protect worker safety."
Jimenez had recently left Mexico to work in Lodi, a region about 35 miles south of the state capital that provides grapes to wineries throughout California.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating her death.
Point of Information: Any legitimate reason why Arizona is not participating in this?
Why Do I get the feeling at some point in the future we will have to send troops into Mexico?
How could we possibly need a fence? For one thing half that population is already here.
Eight years after John Kennedy committed us to it we landed a man on the Moon.
Eight years and this administration can’t build a fence.
Who says national greatness is only in our past?
president reagan sent tanks and military equipment to mexico
because there was fear of a communist insurrection.
at the time the u.s. was fighting the contra wars in central america,
and the u.s. didn’t need another problem.
also, the u.s. over looked mexicans crossing the border illegally
because they let off pressure on mexican society by reducing job seekers, and
they sent monies back to their families.
finally, the u.s. had at the time a low birth rate from the sixties and needed burger flippers and landscapers, etc.
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says Think about it. A man or woman killed in Iraq or Iran in the line of duty is a hero. But what is an American killed at home by an illegal alien because the government has failed in its sworn duty to guard the borders. This is a pact between the sovereign and the person has paid taxes and loyalty. The answer is to that question is pretty awful. And it bodes ill for the republic.
But is it true?
When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.
Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.
Wanted for Murder in New York City.
Chicago wanted for Murder
Philadelphia wanted for murder
San Francisco wanted for Murder
New Orleans wanted for Murder
Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC
FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals) Around 40% of the FBI's wanted for murder are Mexican Nationals
There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. He said further that most of illegals in the federal prisons were in for drug related charges. Most of the illegals in jail for murder were in the state prisons. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.
Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans--but by no means all -- being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article. Also this article from the LA Times. And here. This makes intuitive sense. We see stories regularly of drug gang killings in Mexico but we don't see those same stories in the USA. The reason we don't see those stories is not because its not happening. Rather we don't see the stories about illegals killing blacks because that kind of story is terribly politically incorrect. The populations being displaced in downtown sanctuary cities especially are American blacks. That means that their criminal elements would be pushed aside by Mexican gangs as well. That's also the story that the wanted for murder posters in all the major cities seems to suggest.
Why isn't there an outcry in the black community? Beats me.
Nevertheless, the pattern of non reporting is starting to break. Discovery Channel has a series called Gangland that mentions ethnic cleasing of blacks by Mexican gangs
Reported Foreign Nationals on Death Row in the U.S.
To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.
All that said the true number of criminal aliens is far higher than is revealed by criminal aliens in prisons. Most are simply waived through the courts.DHS Secretary Chertoff, has been quoted as warning that two million people in this country illegally have committed serious crimes. If you check the links you'll notice that its McCain who cites Chertoff. See also here and here Here is more info from Judicial Watch.
However the number of illegals on death row is far lower. Sadly, so many small towns and villages across America have sent their warriors off to war half way across the world only to see communities fill up with illegal aliens.
“president reagan sent tanks and military equipment to mexico”
That’s the first I’ve ever seen of any claim like that. You do have a citation of some sort, of course?
The Congressional Democrats would have been howling if President Reagan had sent arms to Mexico. As if there had been any shortage of arms for the Federales since long before Reagan took office.
i read the los angeles times in the 1980s.
where’s janet??????????????
“Bush has used the wave of violence in Mexico to further an anti-crime legislative package. He is urging Congress to approve the first $500 million installment of a $1.4 billion law enforcement aid package known as the Merida Initiative to combat drug crime in Mexico.”
Yet, when the sheriffs of our rural counties ask for help from them to fight Mexican Drug Cartels in our National forests and parks, they tell them, it’s not the Fed’s responsibility!
Millions more sent to Mexico for what? Prop up the people who created the mess? This stinks.
“Why Do I get the feeling at some point in the future we will have to send troops into Mexico?”
Before that happens we’ll be sending troops into our own cities to fight the Mexican Drug Cartels or the citizenry who wants them gone...... They’ve taken over many cities. In my old hometown of Medford, Or, they recently sent a message to law enforcement...’we own this place’....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015452/posts
Medford graffiti attack
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