More Crime south of the U.S. Border - move those patrols north! - image from the negelectedwar.com
From Insightcrime.org: Pesident Elect, Neitro has vowed to cut the Murder Rate in Mexico by 50% within six years – “The president-elect plans to launch a new offensive against the smaller, more locally-based gangs that have proliferated in Mexico in recent years, US congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Rep, Texas), a close associate of Peña Nieto, told the news agency.”. Six years may be a long wait for some families living inside Mexico – from the Houston Chronicle comes a tale of desperation as an entire family of 20, made up of businessmen and politicians are now seeking political asylum as two members of the family were murdered. One for reporting threats, his son, for visiting his father grave. The town is located 80 miles south of El Paso Texas.
The violence continues unabated, although the Mexican army reports a huge drop in violence in the past year – which has been reported by KHON-Hawaii, makes one wonder which border the Mexican Army is talking about.
It may be that there will be less reporting on murders, beheadings, shootouts, kidnappings, both inside Mexico’s provinces, or directly on the Mexican/U.S. border as Journalist literally take their lives in their hands (Mexico being the 3rd most deadly place for Journalist – in the world – Reuters). In fact, this week, one of Mexico’s Border Newspapers has reported in an editorial it will no longer cover any stories related to the cartels and violence – a move of desperation after having a second bomb attack at the newspaper offices.
(Reuters) One cannot erase the facts.
Even a trip deep into Mexico – by air- may be life threatening: back in June The BBC reported on a shoot-out in Mexico City’s airport that had passengers “diving for cover”. The border, however, remains the most violent, from Borderland Beat July 11 13 murders took place La Laguna region of Mexico in the last five days – bodies found in garbage bags, executions – the normal everyday life of the Mexican citizen surrounded by vicious, beheading prone, “gangs”which have, evidently shut down one newspaper – to date.
It goes without saying that unless and until Mexico beefs up its security forces inside its own country and protects its own citizens, and places its army on the Mexican side of the U.S. border – the violence will continue to spread both north and south of the border. As to the Southern U.S border, with Arizona being the primary entry point (after fencing was installed in San Diego and the Border clamped down in El Paso by the Clinton Administration), the balance of the border should be fenced, droned and monitored by the Federal Government – but to date, under both the Bush and the Obama administration – nothing has been done – This leaves on lone demonized, Arizona Govenor, Jan Brewer, fighting for the citizens of both nations. Although the press in the U.S. and the Obama Administration in particular, along with Mexican’s former President (and one can suspect, given his ties to the U.S. Democrat party, the President Elect), have fought tooth and nail to keep the border porous – yes, for votes, from both parties, but votes by whom? It is estimated that only 5% of the U.S. Hispanic population is eligible to vote Pew Research and those who are eligible might not even care to be labeled “Hispanic”, they are the legal immigrants who came here through the “front door” – and are businessmen, teachers, mothers, fathers, lawyers, doctors, students, Democrats, Republican’s and Libertarians, therefore it makes no sense to keep the borders unprotected.
Shouts of Racist can be heard every time someone suggests shutting down the U.S. Mexican Border – and the question is why? The nation should protect it’s sovereignty, in doing so, it is protecting the lives of individual Mexican and American citizens along the border as well as in every state of the U.S. – where the Mexican “mafia “operates, dealing not only in drugs but in human capital. Women suffer to the extreme, brought over the border by drug cartels, which they pay in order to enter the U.S. illegally, then they are brought to “safe houses” raped, beaten and held for ransom – they area also, not always Hispanic, if one is naive enough to think that is the case, the one should read a bit more of the police blotters and information coming out of the border states – this does not include forced prostitution (as young as 13), another offshoot of the “Culture” that is being exported north of the border. Both nations should get their act together and quickly. The chance of this happening is, of course, ridiculously low – it is simply not a priority, one or the other may lose “votes”. (Speaking of both politicians of all political persuasions in the U.S. and in Mexico).
Yet millions of illegal immigrants risk live and limb to get here every year, and to stay here “illegally” – breaking our laws (this is not, by the way, tolerated in Mexico – who has strict enforcement of illegal immigrants) – In fact, some of them do so without any legal status in Mexico or the U.S. – A report from WIST NY speaks to the millions of illegal immigrants living in NY, NJ and CT, who have no identification what-so-ever, making it impossible for them to get a bank account, get a job, get married, or get their G.E.D. (Keep in mind, they are still here illegally) – The Solution was found:
New York City's Mexican consul, Carlos Sada, estimates there could be hundreds in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who are not included in his country's registry or who have errors on their birth certificates. He added that there are "considerable figures" of people in the same situation across the U.S.
Oaxaca's civil registry officials recently traveled to New York and spent a week in the city working to give an identity to dozens of immigrants.
Civil registry officials also have traveled to Los Angeles on the same mission, and officials from the states of Puebla and Guerrero will probably come to New York soon, said Mexico's consulate in the city.
Haydee Reyes Soto, director of Oaxaca's civil registry, said Mexicans with no U.S. or Mexican identification are "twice as vulnerable."
Soto said dramatic scenarios can unfold, with immigrants being arrested but with no place to be deported to. If they have children in the United States, they can't offer them Mexican citizenship because they don't have it themselves. That can result in the separation of families.
Lack of identity is a serious problem as states approve their own laws to fight illegal immigration and local police departments work with federal agencies to identify immigrants for possible deportation, said Leticia Alanis, president of La Union, a Brooklyn nonprofit that helps immigrants.
Groups like Make the Road New York and El Centro del Inmigrante, on Staten Island, offer ID cards to their members, which sometimes helps immigrants without Mexican identification.
"We ask them to send a letter to themselves and when they receive it, we ask them to bring it to us. Like that, we can check their address," said Gonzalo Mercado, director of El Centro.
Why not just grant these individuals political asylum – fast track their illegal status to legal, make them legal Citizens of the U.S. , (revamp the test), and at the very least, have them pay taxes. Having another nation, hand out ID’s for their citizens, so that they can continue to stay in the U.S. illegally – makes no sense. If one is living in a nation that is besieged by beheading, jihadist like “drug” cartels” whose sole aim is to murder as many journalist, politicians and businessmen, then perhaps asylum should be granted en mass. Once there are secure (not secure for a quarter mile) borders in place on both sides – then give them the opportunity to repatriate to Mexico – or stay.
To follow the ongoing “cartel” wars visit Borderland Beat, and pray that the next administration in both nations pays a bit more attention to actually enforcing border security along the southwest corridor. If not, beheadings, mutilations and the like can become a part of anyone’s hometown in the U.S. as it is known that the cartels operate on both sides of the border now, in cities far from Phoenix, (which bears the brunt) – it is only a matter of time. With all sincerely, if one is religious, pray for those who must live with this – the families, the children, the young journalist who only want to exist in their homeland of Mexico in peace – yet face the fact that any second, either themselves or their loved ones may end up in a garbage bad in pieces, or their heads displayed as trophies on a car – or have a day at the beauty salon, interrupted by spraying bullets. Pray also for those families in the border states specifically Arizona, who have to live with the violence spilling over the border, with no help from the federal government, whose sole job it is to protect our borders – and one final note: if one thinks Jan Brewer ,the Governor of Arizona is some sort of bigoted, racists, crackpot, think again – she’s doing what no one else has had the cajones to do – stand up for the citizens of a border state, and in doing so – stand up for the citizens of Mexico.
