Posted on 08/19/2008 11:38:38 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
The designation this summer of $465 million in U.S. aid to combat drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America — along with the valuable cross-border dialogue that helped bring about this Merida Initiative — is a step in the right direction....But given the urgency of the problems we face, this step is disappointingly small...The Merida Initiative is stingy by any standard but especially by U.S. standards
Fighting drug traffickers is not only a Latin American responsibility, it is also an American responsibility...Like all developed nations, the U.S. must confront the fact that no country can be safe while poverty, illiteracy, violence, preventable diseases and environmental destruction wreak havoc on others....drugs and illegal immigration...are symptoms, not diseases. The disease itself, the cause of these visible effects, is poverty in the Western Hemisphere's developing nations...poverty creates fertile ground for drug trafficking. It is poverty that sends so many legal and illegal immigrants over U.S. borders.... This disease could be countered by investing..According to recent estimates, the country is spending $3 million per mile to build a fence along its border with Mexico designed to keep out illegal immigrants seeking opportunities they cannot find at home. But for every mile of that fence, 2,500 young Latin Americans could receive monthly $100 grants to cover the costs of staying in school so they can get good jobs. For every mile of that fence, 15,000 children could receive Internet-capable laptop computers from MIT's Media Lab, enabling them to join the globalized world rather than falling behind. The possibilities go on and on...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
“But for every mile of that fence, 2,500 young Latin Americans could receive monthly $100 grants to cover the costs of staying in school so they can get good jobs.”
So now we need to be paying Mexicans to stay in school so they can get better jobs when they come to America. So much for them taking the jobs that no one else wants.
How uncouth.. Can we get some of those broken bottles that they use to top fences with in Latin America to do the project right?
What have they done to “deserve” anything other than what the tyrants they tolerate have afforded them? Is it true that 1/3 of the US prison population is an illegal as I’ve heard on radio commercials for Michael Savage?
Yep, they do deserve better than a border wall, they deserve .50 caliber machine guns, army patrols at regular intervals and shoot on sight orders. That is what they deserve. Bob Barr can go suck an egg.
You've just described the character of the United States, as bequeathed to us by Great Britain.
This is the reason why multiculturalism and unfetterred, non-assimilating immigration is so destructive to prosperity. That prosperity did not pop out of thin air. Is is the direct result of a highly successful American Culture. Replace that culture with a corrupt third world culture, and you replace prosperity with squalor.
Then everybody loses.
This is what I have noticed about Oscar Arias and his fellow travelers.
1. It is America’s fault Latin America is an impoverished hell-hole.
2. No Latin American leader is ever responsible for the corruption and feudalism that permeates their countries. The people are never responsible for transforming their own societies.
3. The US is the devil; therefore, we must colonize America and make it as corrupt, backwards and feudalistic as the rest of Latin America.
4. Keep sending US taxpayer money to sustain this system of guilt, corruption and blackmail.
What's even more galling is that Mexico border agents are allowed, by law, to shoot at Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan poor people try to cross their border in an effort to find higher paying jobs.
Mexico's GDP is over $1 TRillion, their per capita income ($10,000 USD/yr) is well over the global average (ie, they ain't actually poor), and the average for their poorer neighbors to the south is about 1/3 their income.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1987/arias-bio.html
“Arias was given a seat in the government as Minister of National Planning and Political Economy. In 1975 his party elected him International Secretary and in 1979, General Secretary. He represented the party at several Socialist International congresses.”
!Amigo, excuse me while I take all your stuff!
“Socialism: communism by the drink.” O’Rourke
A logical progression: mccain: neo-cons: democrats: socialists: nazis: communists
We are told that the scofflaws will straighten up and respect the rule of law once they’ve been here awhile. Even though they crossed illegally, stole an ID to establish residence, and may not declare all of their income to the IRS.
Works fine,
lasts a long time.
Won’t bust,
rust,
nor collect dust.
No. Substantially less than 10% of state and federal inmates are noncitizens. Some portion, probably most of these noncitizens are illegal aliens.
Check this one out:
August 18, 2008
Illegal Alien Recruiting Ads
(Chiquimula, Guatemala) A local radio station is currently airing the following ad:
“We offer trips to the north, in quality buses, and it is only necessary to walk one hour at the border with Mexico. We take you only if you have relatives in the U.S., but we guarantee your arrival.”
The people traffickers then “shamelessly” furnish their phone number; “due to the fact that in the eastern portion of the country there is great interest in emigration, people go for whatever is available.”
The radio station manager said that the ads are by a well known party who also uses other radio stations. ”Other small ads are placed in different printed media, many times disguised as excursions or vacations.”
Donald Gonzalez, an Immigration spokesman, said “This is nothing new, but the only thing these souces haven’t yet said is ‘I’m a coyote’“
Quality buses and only a short walk, what a deal! Apparently there are no impediments to conducting an illegal alien recruiting business in Guatemala. Somebody should shut down the operation.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193654.php
Americans, better get ready for massive looting and plundering----we're looking at a major transfer of wealth to Latin America. The seedy Mexicans are salivating at the thought of getting their filthy hands on US treasure.
And to think the Barbarians, the Vandals, and the Huns used force-----here we have a president opening the gates, giving a blank check to invaders, opening up US highways to facilitate hauling away US wealth.
Interesting note----the connection could not be anymore obvious. Crafty Hernandez (McC's Hispanic Vote Pimp) is reading from the same playbook (translated into Espanol) used to transfer US treasure to greedsters in seedy Mideast hellholes.
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Quoting Tom Tancredo: “I’ll never forget a conversation I had two years ago in Mexico with Juan Hernandez, who headed up the newly created Ministry of Mexicans Living in the United States. Hernandez is a very interesting fellow, a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, and a good friend of presidents Bush and [Vicente] Fox [of Mexico]. I asked about the purpose of the government agency he heads, since I had never heard of such a thing. He said its purpose is to increase the flow of Mexican nationals to the United States.
I asked, “Why?”
‘’It serves Mexico’s needs,’’ he said, and ticked off a list of such things as remittances to Mexico of $10 billion a year, which is 30 percent of the Mexican GDP [gross domestic product]. It provides employment for an exploding population, it alleviates social instability due to rising unemployment and it provides training for Mexicans, ultimately repatriating those skills back to Mexico.
I responded to his final aim – repatriation of trained and skilled Mexicans back into Mexico – and asked, ‘’Then your government would oppose amnesty for the illegal Mexicans in the United States?’’
He cried, ‘’Oh no! We support amnesty totally.’’ I replied, ‘’I don’t understand.’’ I assured him that if amnesty were in effect in the United States, then Mexicans would never return.
He then said something riveting: ‘’By populating the United States with millions of Hispanics who are tied economically, politically and linguistically to Mexico, we are able to exert enormous influence and pressure on U.S. policy and its dealings with Mexico.’’:
"Here ya go, Oscar. Chug-a-lug this-----your whole
outlook will change. And don't bother thanking me."
Here is a link to a story about a meeting in Tijuana to discuss the horrible situation created there by the influx of 700 people a day who have been deported:
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetijuana/notas/n819520.htm
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