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		<title>Media Blacks Out Veterans of Foreign Wars Call to Boycott Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the VFW criticizes Republicans, the Washington Post will cover it. But not if it criticizes Obama.]]></description>
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<p>You might think that a call by a major national veterans organization with <a href="http://www.vfw.org/Common/About-Us/">2 million members </a>to boycott an entire country over the treatment of an imprisoned Marine would at least earn 2 inches of space in a few papers.</p>
<p>But the only outlets covering <a href="http://www.vfw.org/News-and-Events/Articles/2014-Articles/VFW-CALLS-FOR-BOYCOTT-UNTIL-MEXICO-RELEASES-U-S--MARINE/">the statement by the Veterans of Foreign Wars</a> are conservative media.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is calling for a nationwide boycott of Mexican products and travel until Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is released from a Mexican jail.</p>
<p>“This combat Marine has been languishing away since he was arrested March 31 for allegedly crossing the border accidentally with three personal firearms that were legally registered in the States but not in Mexico,” said VFW National Commander William A. Thien. “It was a mistake, but so is the Mexican government’s reluctance to release him unharmed back to the U.S.”</p>
<p>As America’s oldest and largest major combat veterans’ organization, the VFW wants to apply economic pressure to the Mexican government because Tahmooressi’s arrest and captivity is mirroring that of former Marine Jon Hammer, who was arrested for carrying an antique shotgun across the border in August 2012, despite having proper American paperwork. He wasn’t released until four months later.</p>
<p>Thien said the VFW tried the politically polite route by twice asking President Obama to contact Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, but a phone call specifically about the Marine sergeant never took place. Now that Tahmooressi is approaching his third full month in jail, the VFW national commander said it’s time to take the gloves off.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is about politics, and if my government won’t do anything, then I guess we need to let the power of the purse take over. No products, no travel, a total boycott … then maybe a dialogue will start.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Currently the only non-conservative media outlets carrying the story are a local affiliate <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/06/25/vfw-boycott-mexico-until-it-frees-jailed-marine.html?comp=700001075741&amp;rank=1">and Military.com</a>.</p>
<p>Even those who disagree with the VFW and a boycott can&#8217;t deny that this is a significant story and yet the media is deliberately blacking out because smearing vets is uncomfortable but running the story would put pressure on Obama to do something.</p>
<p>And the media clearly has no problem with what was done to Tahmooressi. They are gun control fanatics after all.</p>
<p>The media is happy to cover stories involving the VFW that are unfavorable to Republicans. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/06/13/vfw-attacks-the-three-republicans-who-voted-against-the-senate-va-bill/">Like this story in the</a> Washington Post, &#8220;VFW attacks the three Republicans who voted against Senate VA bill&#8221;.</p>
<p>If the VFW criticizes Republicans, the Washington Post will cover it. If the VFW criticizes Obama or Mexico, it won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s that simple and it&#8217;s how the VA scandal festered for so long. The media blacks out stories that are unfavorable to its ideological allies until a critical mass is reached and the story breaks through.</p>
<p>The problem is that we don&#8217;t have an independent media. We have a liberal media and a conservative media. And the liberal media has corporate dominance and infrastructure on its side. And so stories like these remain buried.</p>
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		<title>Watch Ted Cruz in Dinesh D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s &#8216;America&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>The film debuts today in select theaters and will be released nationally July 2. Click <a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/showtimes/">here</a> for showtime and theater information.</em></p>
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		<title>Debbie Wasserman Schultz Shills for Mexico as Captive Marine Suffers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DNC chair leaves Andrew Tahmooressi behind.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234638" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie-450x254.jpg" alt="Debbie" width="317" height="179" /></a>On March 31, 2014, Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi accidentally made a wrong turn from the United States into Mexico. He has been held in prison there ever since. Tahmooressi had been heading to San Diego, California to seek treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD which resulted from his time spent in combat overseas in Afghanistan. He had with him all of his belongings, including three firearms, which triggered the response from Mexican authorities.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi is a recent resident of the South Florida city of Weston; his mother, Jill, still resides there. The congressional representative for Weston is Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Wasserman Schultz is also the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Since Tahmooressi’s arrest, Wasserman Schultz has played a dual game of assisting Tahmooressi, while providing cover for the Mexican government and his captors.</p>
<p>Reports have stated that Wasserman Schultz has been in contact with both the State Department and Vice President Joe Biden regarding the Tahmooressi case. For the head of the Democratic Party and someone who is a phone call away from the President himself, this would seem to be the bare minimum, and it has resulted in no action as Sgt. Tahmooressi continues to languish behind bars in a foreign nation.</p>
<p>On May 28th, Wasserman Schultz took the time to speak with the comedy radio duo, Paul and Young Ron, on Miami, Florida’s Big 105.9. There, she made a few statements that, instead of helping Tahmooressi, made her out to be a shill for the Mexican government and those who have recklessly held him in Mexico for what is now nearly three months.</p>
<p>“The Mexican government has not done anything wrong here, so let’s be clear,” she insistently told the show’s hosts. She then began to speak about how Mexico has laws, which according to Wasserman Schultz, it “appears” he had violated.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz has stated that her office is “working diligently with the Mexican Embassy.” She said that she had spoken with the Mexican Ambassador, “who assured me that this is being worked on diligently and that they will do everything they can to expedite the situation.”</p>
<p>When asked if they were treating him well, she replied, “As far as I know, yes they are.”</p>
<p>On May 29th, just one day after the Wasserman Schultz interview, Tahmooressi appeared via phone on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren show. On it, he spoke of the nightmare he went through in Mexico.</p>
<p>He said that his fellow inmates threatened to rape and kill him. He said he was chained to a bed on three separate occasions, including chained standing up, as a form of “punishment.” He told Van Susteren he was punched in the stomach “to the point that I couldn’t breathe.” He said he was struck in his jaw by prison guards so many times his jaw moved out of place.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz’s statement that Andrew Tahmooressi was being treated well was either based on complete ignorance of his situation or a way to shield the Mexican government from harm. Considering that she made it a point to say that the Mexican government did nothing wrong – that they should be exempt from criticism – makes one come to the conclusion that it is the latter.</p>
<p>On May 31st, President Barack Obama traded five Taliban commanders for Bowe Bergdahl, an Army troop who had been held captive by the Taliban since June 2009. It was a highly controversial move not only for the violence associated with the terrorist commanders, but for the fact that Bergdahl has been considered by many to be a troop deserter who walked away from his camp.</p>
<p>Sgt. Tahmooressi, on the other hand, has been lauded as a hero for saving at least eight of his fellow troops’ lives in Afghanistan. So while President Obama traded five Taliban leaders for a possible troop deserter, the hero Tahmooressi has been made to suffer behind bars in Mexico with his family’s own government representative doing the least possible to see to his freedom.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi’s mother, Jill, said that never in all his time during four years as a Marine and two tours in Afghanistan was her son treated so badly as he has been in Mexico. But that may only be her opinion, as people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe he’s been treated just fine and Mexico did nothing wrong.</p>
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		<title>Immigration and America’s Failure of Nerve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a nation abandoned the principles and habits that made immigration work for it in the past.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/br.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234060" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/br-450x288.jpg" alt="br" width="316" height="202" /></a>The number of unaccompanied children from Central America into the U.S. has reached 47,000 since October, and may hit 90,000 by the end of this year. The official story is that they are fleeing drug-gang mayhem and political violence in their home countries, and so are refugees and asylum-seekers. But the Guatemalan ambassador has said they are seeking economic opportunity and the “American dream.” It’s hard, however, not to see a connection with Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Arrivals Program, which defers deportation for illegal aliens who are minors. Obama enacted by executive fiat––and just recently extended for 2 years––this open invitation to illegal minors when Congress proved unwilling to pass the Dream Act legislation.</p>
<p>This sudden surge of illegal immigrants couldn’t help but remind me of Jean Raspail’s 1973 dystopian novel <em>The Camp of the Saints.</em> In the story millions of impoverished Third World people, starting in India, highjack ships and begin sailing to the south of France. Once they land they swarm the rich Côte d’Azur while the French flee in panic to the north. Most interesting are Raspail’s descriptions of why this mass invasion happened––as the inevitable suicidal response of a people who no longer believe in their own civilization’s ideals or principles. The French consul in India, for example, chastising the Catholic bishop who approves of the mass immigration and says he is proud to be “bearing witness,” retorts, “Bearing witness to what? To your faith? Your religion? To your Christian civilization? Oh no, none of that! Bearing witness against yourselves, like the anti-Western cynics you’ve become. Do you think the poor devils that flock to your side aren’t any the wiser? Nonsense! They see right through you. For them, white skin means weak convictions. They know how weak yours are, they know you’ve given in.”</p>
<p>For nearly 3 decades we have undergone a slow-motion version of Raspail’s parable. In 1969 there were an estimated half a million illegal immigrants in the U.S.; today the low-end estimate is 11,500,000. There are many explanations for this increase. Perverse incentives such as the 1986 amnesty and Obama’s Deferred Action for Arrivals Program, the need for cheap workers for jobs Americans don’t want to do, and the Democrats’ hunger for political clients all explain this increase. But as always, bad policies are created by bad ideas. The problems of immigration, whether legal or illegal, are in part created, and definitely worsened, by the erosion of national and civilizational identity and pride that Raspail dramatizes in his novel.</p>
<p>As with the Europeans in Raspail’s story, these problems reflect a civilizational failure of nerve. We Americans enjoy the material and cultural capital of our ancestors even as we embrace a fashionable self-loathing and guilt over presumed Western crimes like imperialism, colonialism, and racism. No longer believing that our political, social, and cultural orders are better than the alternatives, we too have “given in,” surrendered to the specious cultural relativism that proclaims all cultures equally valuable even as it demonizes our own as the font of all oppression and injustice. As a result, we have abandoned the principles and habits that made immigration work in the past.</p>
<p>Around the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century America was inundated with millions of immigrants from countries that many Americans believed were alien to our cultural and political order, and yet most successfully assimilated and enriched their new homes. Some 30 million immigrants entered the U.S. between 1870 and 1930, most of them Slavs, Italians, and Jews from Eastern Europe. By 1890 15% of Americans were foreign born, compared to 13% today. This admission of what some Americans considered people alien to the Northern European ethnic foundations of the country led to the Emergency Quota Law of 1921. This bill limited the number of immigrants to 350,000 and set nationality quotas, with immigration from a country capped at 3% of the population of that nationality based on the 1910 census. The effect, given the ethnic origins of the majority of Americans in countries like England and Germany, was to reduce immigration from eastern and southern Europe in favor of immigrants from Northern Europe.</p>
<p>This obsession with race and ethnicity, which reflected the Darwinian and Progressive racist “scientific consensus” of the 1920s that also created the eugenics movement, confused and distorted the issue of immigration. For as the descendants of that great wave of immigration of the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries show, race or ethnicity was not as important as culture. For just as anybody can learn any language, any human can learn to live by the mores, customs, principles, and laws of any culture. My maternal grandparents were some of those southern Italians that many Americans thought were alien invaders unfit to be Americans. My grandfather came through Ellis Island in 1906, and was officially designated by the U.S. government as an illiterate peasant. Yet all his progeny are unmistakably American, indistinguishable from their compatriots descended from Northern Europe.</p>
<p>The difference between then and now is that we have adopted a variation of 1920s racialist ideology––the multicultural identity politics that demonizes assimilation to American identity while it demands reparations for historical crimes against and public celebrations of immigrant cultures as superior to American. Back in my grandparents’ day things were different. Immigrants were expected to work at becoming Americans, which meant learning English, American political principles and virtues, American history and heroes, and American customs and mores. Whatever their private beliefs and practices, in their role as citizens immigrants had to acknowledge that America was not just different from their homes countries, but in some crucial respects––political freedom and economic opportunity, to name a few–– superior. Otherwise, why did they make the difficult and traumatic journey to America?</p>
<p>To speak this way now, however, is to be called xenophobic, jingoistic, or racist. Being proud of your country is bad form for native-born Americans, so why should immigrants be expected to prefer their new home to their old? As victims of our crimes, they deserve for us to cater to their cultures, instead of them adjusting to America’s. And so we come back to the central pathology underlying not just immigration but much of our foreign policy as well––too many of our elites doubt the goodness of America, sneer at any claims of its superiority, and are guilty over its alleged global crimes and oppression. We have institutionalized in our popular culture, media, and schools a failure of nerve that saps our cultural confidence and leaves us unable to defend our way of life and demand that those who come here legally or otherwise embrace our political ideals and social mores. As a result, we ignore our own immigration laws, and contemplate yet another blanket amnesty that would spur even more illegal immigration.</p>
<p>Any sort of immigration cannot work in these conditions. Indeed, millions of immigrants, including illegal ones, are assimilating and becoming Americans all on their own, without the cultural support our public institutions used to give. The problem is, millions more aren’t, without suffering any consequences, including deportation if they are here illegally. Meanwhile politicians from both parties keep pushing “immigration reform,” i.e. amnesty, without addressing the critical question of how are we going to sort out and help those who have shown they want to become Americans, from those who prefer to keep their old identities no matter how incompatible or with, or even hostile to, America’s political and social order. Until we answer that crucial question, which will require a renewed confidence in what it means to be an American and a restored willingness to enforce that vision, illegal immigration will remain a festering problem.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The Gang gathered to discuss<em> &#8220;A Jailed Marine and a Silent Commander-in-Chief,&#8221; </em>analyzing why Obama hasn&#8217;t made a statement that Andrew Tahmooressi could be his son.</p>
<p>The Titans also focused on &#8220;<em>Cruz’ing the Tea Party/Republican Divide,&#8221;</em> &#8220;<em>The VA Hospital Scandal and Double Standards</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Ted Cruz Rising</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The Growing American Police State?</em>&#8221; and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>Cruz&#8217;ing the Tea Party/Republican Divide &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Whittle, Karen Siegemund and Mell Flynn shed light on the GOP’s discomfort with grassroots conservatism.]]></description>
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<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>Cruz&#8217;ing the Tea Party/Republican Divide, </em>analyzing the GOP’s discomfort with grassroots conservatism.<em><br />
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<p>The Titans also focused on &#8220;<em>A Jailed Marine and a Silent Commander-in-Chief</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The VA Hospital Scandal and Double Standards</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Ted Cruz Rising</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The Growing American Police State?</em>&#8221; and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>Cartel Billboards: A Sign of the Times?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 04:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610.png"><img class=" wp-image-226312 alignleft" alt="613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610-450x301.png" width="315" height="211" /></a>The title of the May 23, 2014 “The Daily Mail” article sounded a clear warning:</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637789/threatening-cartel-billboards-warning-police-choose-silver-lead-come-complete-hanging-mannequins-appearing-texas.html">&#8220;A chilling message from the cartels: Billboards with hanging mannequins warning cops to choose &#8216;silver over lead&#8217; appear in Texas&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The sub-title of the article provides context for the title and the article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them</i></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><i>One reads &#8216;silver or lead&#8217; in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels&#8217; bribes or die</i></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><i>Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north</i></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To provide a bit of background, many similar signs have, for years, been posted in Mexico warning the public and especially police, judges and prosecutors that they will either submit to bribery (silver) by the cartels or be shot dead (lead) by the cartels.  In Mexico mutilated bodies of those who were brutally tortured, killed and dismembered by the cartels for non-compliance are often hung off of bridges or billboards.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In El Paso, next to one of the billboards, was a mannequin attired in a black suit hanging from a noose &#8212; chillingly similar to the way that actual bodies are often displayed south of the U.S./Mexican border.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The news report noted that there are concerns that the violence is heading north.  Indeed, the violence has already headed north &#8212; although, thus far, not to the extent we have seen in Mexico.  However, when talking about the violence “heading north” it may well be that for the Mexican cartels “north” may include states located far from the U.S./Mexican border such as New York.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On May 20, 2014 the New York City Council conducted a hearing focused on the skyrocketing increase of heroin inundating New York City.</span></p>
<p>CBS News reported on that hearing in an article: <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/20/special-narcotics-prosecutor-to-address-heroin-epidemic-at-city-council-hearing/">&#8220;Special Narcotics Prosecutor Addresses Heroin Epidemic At City Council Hearing.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Here is how the CBS report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>That’s the warning from the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan, who told a City Council hearing Tuesday that the amount of heroin sold by New York City-based drug traffickers is skyrocketing.</i></p>
<p><i>“So far we’ve seized 288 pounds (in 2014), and that’s in four and a half months — compared to last year, when during the entire year we seized about 177 pounds,” Brennan said. ” … Obviously, we’re going to surpass last year.”</i></p>
<p><i>This year’s heroin seizures have already exceeded those in every year dating back to 1991, WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The report went on to note:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Roughly 35 percent of heroin seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration nationwide since October was confiscated in New York state, according to the Times.</i></p>
<p><i>Mexican cartels apparently smuggle the drug up north in tractor-trailers. At rest stops near New York City, the heroin is off-loaded to cars and taken to mills in the Bronx and upper Manhattan, where it is processed and packaged, the Times reported.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On October 12, 2012, an extensive New York Times article,  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/nyregion/on-roosevelt-avenue-in-queens-vice-remains-a-stubborn-presence.html?_r=0">&#8220;Roosevelt Avenue, a Corridor of Vice,&#8221;</a> focused on Jackson Heights, a neighborhood in New York City where narcotics trafficking and illegal immigration are inextricably linked along with prostitution, identity theft and the creation of fraud identity documents.</p>
<p>Inasmuch as many of those who commit many of these crimes are aliens, it would make sense for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to work cooperatively with other law enforcement agencies to combat these crimes.  However, ICE lacks adequate resources and the administration has demonstrated an unwillingness to effectively enforce the immigration laws.</p>
<p>Further complicating matters are the sanctuary policies of the City of New York.  Police officers are prohibited from notifying ICE when they encounter suspected illegal aliens.</p>
<p>For the second half of my 30-year career with the former INS, I was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.  I spent an inordinate amount of time conducting investigations and making arrests in Jackson Heights.  Bad as things were back then, today&#8217;s situation eclipses what I personally encountered when I was an INS Senior Special Agent.</p>
<p>On September 3, 2013 I joined Congressman Lou Barletta on the campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida to participate in a town hall meeting on immigration sponsored by Radio Station WNDB.  C-SPAN covered of our discussion and posted it under the title:<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314823-1">&#8220;Immigration Policy &amp; Homeland Security.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During our discussion I made the point that the best metric for determining border security was the price and availability of cocaine and heroin.</span></p>
<p>I also raised that point when I was was <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3581676227001/marine-jailed-in-mexico-shines-light-on-relationship-with-us/?playlist_id=940325739001#sp=show-clips">interviewed</a> by Brian Kilmeade on Fox &amp; Friends on May 22<sup>nd</sup> to discuss the arrest of an American Marine who was arrested by Mexican law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>As a rule, transnational criminal organizations, especially narcotics trafficking organizations, put thugs from their home countries in charge of operations in cities across the United States to maintain control over the drugs and the proceeds from the sale of those drugs.  Criminal organizations want to work with those they are most familiar with.  They also know that if they use individuals from their home countries, the criminal organizations can easily take reprisals against the family members of those they send to the United States.  Reprisals are often swift and incredibly brutal.  This helps keep the “employees” of these organizations obedient.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Because New York State is currently the recipient of such a high percentage of the Mexican heroin it is likely that the violence perpetrated by the cartels may well become highest in New York.  The most likely victims of that violence are likely to be members of the ethnic Latino communities where cartel members live and operate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is hardly “anti-immigrant” for law enforcement elements being brought to bear against aliens who violate our laws.  Yet this is the fatuous claim often made by the immigration anarchists who are eager for a massive amnesty program for unknown millions of illegal aliens. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shortly after taking office, New York City&#8217;s Mayor De Blasio made the astonishing statement that he would provide illegal aliens with identity documents.  I addressed this ill-conceived proposal in an article for Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/nyc-mayor-determined-give-illegal-aliens-id-cards">&#8220;NYC Mayor Determined to Give Illegal Aliens ID Cards.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Suspects who are arrested are always fingerprinted and photographed to document the arrest and to attempt to determine the true identity of those taken into custody.  Criminals and terrorists use multiple aliases as camouflage to conceal their true identities.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Aliens who claims to not have identity documents may truly not have identity documents or may seek to create a new false identity because their true names are on criminal or terrorist watch lists.  It is bizarre that politicians often herald the arrest of those who create false identity documents, describing such documents as dangerous to public safety and national security, while declaring their cities and states to be “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens and may offer to provide driver&#8217;s licenses to such illegal aliens whose identities cannot be verified.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On May 2, 2013 I was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/02/immigration-expert-system-much-worse-shape-people-think">interviewed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Megyn Kelly of Fox News about the immigration component to the Boston Marathon terrorist bombing. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On November 21, 2013 the Washington Times published a report, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/21/committee-examines-reports-mexican-drug-cartels-us/">Mexican drug cartels exploit asylum system by claiming ‘credible fear.’</a><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">”</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That article served as predication for a House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 12, 2013 on the topic, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_12122013.html">Asylum Abuse: Is it Overwhelming our Borders?</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Advocates for “comprehensive immigration reform” or other such programs, attempt to minimize the significance of America’s borders and immigration laws by referring to aliens who evade the inspections process as simply being “undocumented.”  In reality, aliens who evade the inspections process are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">un-inspected</i><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, when I was an INS agent, my colleagues and I referred to the method of entry of aliens who evaded the inspections process as being EWI (</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">E</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ntry </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">W</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ithout </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">I</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">nspection).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That inspections process is mandated by our immigration laws and by commonsense.  It is the equivalent of a homeowner looking through the peephole on the front door before admitting a stranger into his home.  It was identified as a critical issue by the 9/11 Commission that focused on how to enhance that process to prevent the entry of terrorists.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No reasonable person would willingly board an airliner if he (she) saw fellow passengers who had evaded the TSA inspections process boarding the plane they were about to travel on. (No one wants a window seat on a cruise missile!)  Yet today we are unwittingly forced to live among unknown millions of illegal aliens who evaded the inspection process conducted at ports of entry.  That inspections process is designed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence poses a threat to national security, public safety or in other ways, the wellbeing of our citizens, our communities and our country. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docview/slb/html/slb/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-1956.html">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a>.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> It contains a list of the categories of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the United States.  It has nothing to do with race, religion or ethnicity but everything to do with the safety and well-being of America and Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">America&#8217;s borders and immigration laws are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">supposed</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to represent our first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals shielding, our nation and our citizens.  Of course this can only happen if our borders are made secure and our immigration laws are effectively enforced and administered.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If ever there was a time for our nation&#8217;s leaders to order, “Shields up” this is it.</span></p>
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<p>At the screening for &#8220;Cesar Chavez: An American Hero&#8221;, Obama pushed amnesty for illegal aliens, claiming, &#8220;We’ve got to keep working to fix our broken immigration system.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;one of us can claim to know exactly what Cesar would have said about this fight, or any other,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>But actually in this case we can know.</p>
<blockquote><p>Chávez was not a fan of expanding immigration. He believed that undocumented immigrants undercut the pay and negotiating power of unionized workers, and he protested farms’ use of migrant and undocumented workers as “strikebreakers.”</p>
<p>In some instances, he and the UFW even reported some undocumented immigrants to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for deportation.</p>
<p>In the 1970s, under Chávez, the UFW set up a “wet line” along the US-Mexico border to stop immigrants from entering the US illegally.</p>
<p>“Under the supervision of Chavez’s cousin, Manuel, UFW members tried at first to persuade Mexicans not to cross the border. One time when that didn’t work, they physically attacked and beat them up to scare them off, according to reports at the time.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Chavez was right of course. Illegal immigration lowers pay for workers at the bottom of the ladder. It also makes unions unworkable. Chavez was representing the interests of workers. Now however the cheap labor lobby and the minority lobbies are united in supporting illegal immigration.</p>
<blockquote><p>“As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes,” Chavez says in the interview. “All of a sudden yesterday morning, they brought in 220 wetbacks &#8212; these are the illegals &#8212; from Mexico.”</p></blockquote>
<p>For all his faults, Chavez did at least try to represent the interests of workers. That&#8217;s more than can be said for the AFL-CIO, NAACP and other organizations that are undermining workers by backing Obama&#8217;s amnesty.</p>
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		<title>Kerry Fights to Save Illegal Alien Cop Killer from Texas Death Row</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Since he threw away all his Vietnam medals, <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=222077">maybe the Mexican government can </a>offer him a few replacements <a href="http://toprightnews.com/?p=848">for his work on behalf of </a>a cop-killer.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mexico’s government is trying to block the execution of a convicted cop killer in Texas this week, arguing that it would violate international law. And our very own Secretary of State John Kerry is working with them — and the United Nations – trying to save the life of an illegal alien murderer.</p>
<p>Edgar Arias Tamayo, a 46-year old Mexican man, was in the country illegally when he killed Houston police officer Guy Gaddis. Tamayo was arrested by Gaddis outside a nightclub in 1994 for robbery. While being transported to jail, Tamayo pulled out a hidden gun and fatally shot Gaddis twice in the back of the head, execution-style.</p>
<p>Tamayo is — finally — scheduled to be executed this Wednesday, January 22nd, after a disgraceful 20 year delay.</p>
<p>Kerry wants Texas to call it off. Why?  Because Tamayo was not “notified of his right” to contact the Mexican consulate, “in violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations”.</p>
<p>And isn’t it ironic that the same Kerry that wants to let a cop-killer off the hook out of concern for “repercussions for Americans locked up abroad” did not even see fit to demand that Iran release the American pastor they are jailing before giving them the escape hatch from economic sanctions they so desperately needed.</p>
<p>Kerry tried to play the Mexican card in his strong-armed attempt to get Texas Gov. Rick Perry to stop the execution.</p>
<p>Kerry noted in his letter to the Texas lawmakers a note he received earlier this year from Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Eduardo Medina Mora, who wrote, “This issue has become and could continue to be a significant irritant in the relations between our two countries.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A significant irritant? Maybe Mexico should boycott us then.</p>
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		<title>Obama Free to Go on Advertising Food Stamps in Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Nearly 1 in 6 people living in the US are now on food stamps."]]></description>
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<p>Magnet? What illegal immigration magnet? That&#8217;s <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=221224">immigration reform magnet</a>, now.</p>
<blockquote><p>The omnibus spending bill before Congress continues to fund U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advertising programs for food stamps in foreign countries like Mexico, Breitbart News has learned.</p>
<p>The bill was hashed out between House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). The funding will continue despite claims in a document the House Appropriations Committee published that the bill contains a “prohibition” on such programs. Page three of this press document states regarding food stamps that the omnibus spending bill contains a &#8220;prohibition on advertisements or outreach with foreign governments.&#8221;</p>
<p>The entire paragraph that contains that statement reads:   Requirements for the Secretary of Agriculture to help weed out and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the SNAP program – including a directive to ban fraudulent vendors, and a prohibition on advertisements or outreach with foreign governments.</p>
<p>However, upon reading through the text of the bill and the bill summary explanatory document, there is no such “prohibition” included in it. Instead, the explanatory document that Rogers published just states that USDA is “strongly discouraged” from advertising food stamps programs with foreign governments.</p></blockquote>
<p>The more things claim to have been changed, the more they stay exactly the same. A Republican deal with a Democrat invariably ends with the Democrat getting everything he wants on policy issues and the Republican getting bragging rights based on meaningless language.</p>
<blockquote><p>Similarly, during the Senate Budget Committee markup of the Democratic budget that Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) offered last year, Sessions offered an amendment that would have ended the USDA’s partnership with Mexico on food stamp advertising in that country. Senate Democrats unanimously voted against that Sessions amendment.</p></blockquote>
<p>And <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/obama-usda-met-30-times-with-mexican-govt-to-promote-food-stamp-use-among-mexican-immigrants/">let&#8217;s not forget that</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Department of Agriculture personnel in the Obama administration have met with Mexican Government officials dozens of times since the president took office to promote nutrition assistance programs — notably food stamps — among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.</p>
<p>“Nearly 1 in 6 people living in the US are now on food stamps,” Sessions noted. “How can the administration justify trying to increase that number through outreach on the foreign soil of fifty consulates?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Somebody&#8217;s got to move here and vote for him six times.</p>
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		<title>Obama Pays Mexican Male Prostitutes to Stay Disease-Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete doesn't really need to get his kids braces. The Mexican male prostitutes need that money. ]]></description>
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<p>“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a Mexican male brothel in Tijuana, good for you. But I want to be clear, you did it because the United States government paid Mexican male prostitutes to remain disease free. Your customers were able to return to your brothel without succumbing to AIDS because American taxpayers paid them not to get AIDS.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now look you built a Mexican male brothel, great idea, Allah bless. Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay it forward to the United States government so it can study why lesbians drink too much or why Thailand prostitutes read more Baudelaire.</p>
<p>&#8220;You <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/22/u-s-government-funded-study-involves-paying-mexican-prostitutes/">didn&#8217;t build that male Mexican brothel. Obama did</a>.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The study is called “Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks: A Pilot in Mexico,” and uses a grant from the National Institute of Health to pay male prostitutes in Mexico City. The prostitutes were placed in different groups and tested for sexually transmitted diseases. For every six months that they remain clean, they receive a payment that is larger or smaller depending upon their group.</p>
<p>Though the dollar amounts paid to each prostitute are small — they must remain poor enough to continue in prostitution, of course — the study has already cost nearly $400,000.</p>
<p>Drew Johnson of the Center for Individual Freedom wondered if bribing Mexican prostitutes was the best use of the taxpayer’s dime.</p>
<p>“At a time when the federal government is hiking taxes, raising its debt ceiling and drowning in ever-deepening debt, the last thing Washington needs to do is ship our money to Mexico City to give a cash reward to prostitutes for not catching Chlamydia or Gonorrhea,” he wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>I suspect some government officials have a certain &#8220;personal interest&#8221; in the outcome of this study. But if we&#8217;re paying terrorists, who not also pay male prostitutes? It&#8217;s just taxpayer money and they have lots of it.</p>
<p>Pete doesn&#8217;t really need to get his kids braces. The Mexican male prostitutes need that money.</p>
<p>Donna doesn&#8217;t really need new shoes. The male Mexican prostitutes need her shoe money.</p>
<p>This is Obama&#8217;s <del>America</del> Mexico. You didn&#8217;t build that. Unless you voted for him.</p>
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		<title>Mexican Cabinet Member: If US Doesn&#8217;t Take Illegals, They&#8217;ll Be a Burden on Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine people that Mexico thinks are a burden.]]></description>
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<p>Imagine people that Mexico, a country that closely resembles a train that went off the rails into an exploding volcano filled with cocaine, thinks are a burden. Does <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/ex-mexican-official-us-has-to-take-more-illegals">taking them in really sound like a great plan</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>A former Mexican cabinet member says the U.S. should accept more low-skill migrants from Central America, because otherwise the migrants would stay in Mexico.</p>
<p>If they can’t get into the United States, “they’re going to stay in Mexico, creating a burden for us that we have to carry,” Jorge Castañeda said on “Al Punto,” a Spanish-language show on Univision.</p>
<p>Immigrants hoping to enter the United States, legally or illegally, will invariably pass through Mexico to get there, Castañeda said. Assuming they can’t get into the country, with the heightened border security, he predicted that they will just stay in Mexico.</p>
<p>The U.S. needs to provide more temporary work visas to ensure that these illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens, rather than a “burden” that Mexico will have to deal with.</p>
<p>“I think Mexico should raise its voice much more clearly and forcefully to say that if the United States wants a wall, it needs to have more doors in this wall, with more bells at these doors so that Mexicans and Central Americans can enter the United States with papers,” he said, as translated.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure. Let&#8217;s have our immigration policy set by a neighboring country based on the number of people it wants to get rid of.</p>
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		<title>Is Illegal Immigration Good For Mexico?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the open borders lobby is destroying the hope for change south of the border. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/immigration-secure-border.jpeg7-1280x960.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193702" alt="immigration-secure-border.jpeg7-1280x960" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/immigration-secure-border.jpeg7-1280x960-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>The debate over immigration reform, illegal aliens and border security presupposes that absorbing a constant flow of illegal immigrants, mainly from Mexico, is a good thing for Mexico and its people. But this presumption has neglected an important question: is the constant influx of poor and unskilled labor out of Mexico good for Mexico as an independent nation?</p>
<p>Even if we ignore the fact that the US cannot absorb and assimilate all the people who want to come to America, we cannot ignore the question of whether we are doing Mexico a favor with our open borders. No doubt, life as an illegal alien in the US is much better than being unemployed and poor in Mexico or any other third world country.</p>
<p>At face value illegal immigration seems to be good for Mexico, which benefits tremendously from the pouring of US dollars into its economy, supporting families and relatives of immigrants in America. That is why the Mexican government is not complaining and is happy to maintain the status quo on its borders. The government of Mexico acts like it is a right for its citizens to cross the borders into the US to find work. Not a bad deal for any government that does not want to be accountable to its own citizens to improve their lives, the economy and human rights conditions. The message of the Mexican government to its citizens is: You want a job, human rights and medical care, then go to the US if you can’t afford it here.</p>
<p>The natural urge for any country to improve comes from pressure from the lower classes that demand employment and pressure governments to work hard to educate citizens to meet the demands of job competition. By absorbing Mexico’s unskilled workers, the US government has become an enabler in this equation.</p>
<p>That is why the US government cannot claim to be an innocent victim here since it has politicized, used and abused the illegal immigration issue and narrowed it down to getting the Hispanic vote, name-calling Americans who want to respect the law and maintain border control, while neglecting the bigger picture: open border policies&#8217; impact on the rights of American citizens and the healthy functioning of both Mexican and American sovereignty and economies.</p>
<p>If the huge number of illegal immigrants from Mexico was good for Mexico as a nation, then how come its economic, political and security conditions have not improved over the years, but instead have steadily deteriorated? The steady absorption of the bottom of Mexican society by the US has deprived Mexico of its motivation to improve its economy and to become a government that serves the welfare and living conditions of its poor and unemployed. Why should Mexico work hard on improving conditions for the poor and unemployed if America is doing the job for them?</p>
<p>It is not easy for any nation to be located on the border with a giant economic super power like the United States. This situation tempts smaller nations to exist like small fish living off the crumbs and leftovers of a giant whale.</p>
<p>The situation in both Mexico and the US is unnatural and self-defeating, leaving Mexico stagnant and unmotivated to improve and meet the needs of its citizens. Groups in America who claim moral superiority for being on the side of open borders and absorbing all illegal aliens because they have big hearts are in fact absolving the Mexican government of its duty toward its citizens and economy and are contributing to the internal problems of Mexico and the United States. In the long run, we are not doing Mexico a favor with our open borders, but we are crippling them and robbing them of the healthy functioning of their nation.</p>
<p>The US should immediately end the politicization of the immigration issue not only for the sake of America, but also for the sake of Mexico. We need a sane immigration policy that respects US sovereignty and that helps Mexico become more responsible as an independent nation to end its sluggish economy and political corruption.</p>
<p>The sovereignty of both the US and Mexico has been compromised under the status quo, which is unsustainable. Either we control the US border or say goodbye to both US and Mexican sovereignty as two separate nations.</p>
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		<title>DREAMers from Afghanistan Crossing Mexican Border into US</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 01:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another deputy sheriff in Brooks County showed me a picture of three gentlemen that they detained all wearing, happened to be wearing some form of turban. And I said, 'where are these folks from?' And they said, 'Afghanistan.']]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_189096" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/illegal-immigrants.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-189096" alt="Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Every time that flag's unfurled They're coming to America" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/illegal-immigrants-450x321.jpg" width="450" height="321" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Everywhere around the world<br />They&#8217;re coming to America<br />Every time that flag&#8217;s unfurled<br />They&#8217;re coming to America</p></div>
<p>&#8220;Dream a Little Dream of Me,&#8221; the Mamas and the Papas sang back in the 60s. There are <a href="http://jpupdates.com/2013/05/09/senator-quoting-border-patrol-chinese-afghans-coming-in-from-mexico/">many DREAMers coming </a>to America these days. Some are coming from Mexico. Some from China. And some<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/05/09/cornyn_people_wearing_some_form_of_turban_are_crossing_southern_border.html"> from sunny old Afghanistan</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>SEN. JOHN CORNYN: I just want to tell Senator Schumer, he might be interested in this. I was in, as I said, at the border on Sunday and Monday, and I know Senator Feinstein will probably find this interesting, too. We&#8217;re not just seeing the border being penetrated by people from Mexico or Central America. Some of the rescue beacons &#8212; where people are actually rescued because one county had 129 people die last year just trying to come across. That&#8217;s just bodies that they found.</p>
<p>But the rescue beacons are in English, Spanish and Chinese. And I said, &#8216;why Chinese?&#8217; They said, &#8216;Well, for $30,000, you can get one of the smugglers to get you up through Central America, into Mexico and the United States.&#8217;</p>
<p>Another deputy sheriff in Brooks County showed me a picture of three gentlemen that they detained all wearing, happened to be wearing some form of turban. And I said, &#8216;where are these folks from?&#8217; And they said, &#8216;Afghanistan.&#8217;</p>
<p>And as we all know, the border patrol documented that people from countries of special interest, including state sponsors of terrorism, have been detained coming across the Southern border. So as everybody knows &#8212; and I know everybody knows this &#8212; this is a national security issue as well. It&#8217;s a credibility issue, it&#8217;s a national security issue. So we&#8217;ve got to get this right and I hope that we can work together to get it right. Right now is not sufficient.</p></blockquote>
<p>The media, and by that I mean the lefty think tanks they get all their news from, responded to the subject with all the serious scrutiny they usually do. And by that I mean they took the time to type out, &#8220;Ha Ha Crazy Racist Republicans are Afraid of Being Invaded by Turbaned People.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some experts suggest that this fine commitment to national security led us to the Al Qaeda attacks of the Clinton Administration leading up to September 11 and the second wave of September 11 attacks under Obama. But those people are probably racist for suspecting more of those fine DREAMers from Afghanistan.</p>
<p>We should probably just legalize them right now.</p>
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		<title>1/3 of Mexico Wants to Move to the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 21:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a quarter of Mexicans (27%) know someone who has been deported or detained by the U.S. government for immigration reasons in the last 12 months.]]></description>
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<p>Fortunately Mexico is a small country of only 112 million people so we should <a href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/04/29/u-s-image-rebounds-in-mexico/">have no trouble absorbing a mere 37 million people</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>About six-in-ten Mexicans (61%) say they would not move to the U.S. even if they had the means and opportunity to do so. However, a sizable minority (35%) say they would move to the U.S. if they could, including 20% who say they would emigrate without authorization.</p>
<p>Three-in-ten Mexicans say they personally know someone who went to the U.S. but returned to Mexico because the person could not find work. About a quarter (27%) know someone who has been deported or detained by the U.S. government for immigration reasons in the last 12 months.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you want to get a handle on how bill illegal immigration from south of the border is and how unlikely it is to go away any time soon without serious enforcement, consider that nearly a quarter of Mexico seems to know someone who was deported in the last year.</p>
<p>This is a huge problem that has been undercounted. If we don&#8217;t get serious about it, we will be Mexico. Interestingly though not all Mexicans are happy with the situation.</p>
<blockquote><p>More than 11 million Mexicans live in the U.S., including about 6 million who are in the country illegally.1 Mexicans are divided on whether this is good or bad for their country; 44% say it is good for Mexico that many of its citizens live in the U.S., and an equal share say this is bad for Mexico.</p></blockquote>
<p>We do need to look at ways to build on that attitude. The massive migration brings money to Mexico, but it also brings instability and the loss of a sizable percentage of the workforce. The border attracts the cartels. A truly closed off border with a wall that couldn&#8217;t be easily climbed over or bridged would help Mexico deal with its crime problem.</p>
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		<title>Reminder: How Mexico Treats &#8216;Undesirable&#8217; Foreigners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just racist "nativism"?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/michellemalkin/reminder-how-mexico-treats-undesirable-foreigners/070312-a-6950h-002/" rel="attachment wp-att-183209"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-183209" title="070312-A-6950H-002:" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Border_Mexico_USA-450x309.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="185" /></a>American politicians in both parties are stampeding all over themselves to pander to Mexico and adopt mass illegal alien amnesty schemes. But while the Mexican government lobbies for more &#8220;humane&#8221; treatment of illegal border crossers from their country into ours, Mexico remains notoriously restrictionist toward &#8220;undesirable&#8221; foreigners who break their laws or threaten their security.</p>
<p>Despite widely touted immigration &#8220;reforms&#8221; adopted in 2011, Mexico still puts Mexico first — as any country that is serious about protecting its sovereignty should and would.</p>
<p>Article 33 of Mexico&#8217;s constitution establishes the right of the president to detain and deport &#8220;any foreigner&#8221; and prohibits foreigners from participating &#8220;in any way&#8221; in the political affairs of the country.</p>
<p>While you read this passage, dwell on the demagogic rhetoric of meddling Mexican consular officials and lobbyists who assail America for its (poorly enforced) detention and deportation policies:</p>
<blockquote><p>The President of the Republic shall have the power to expel from national territory any foreigner, according to the law and after a hearing. The law shall establish the administrative procedure for this purpose, as well as the place where the foreigner should be detained and the time for that. Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.</p></blockquote>
<p>Article 32 of Mexico&#8217;s constitution unapologetically bans non-native born residents from holding sensitive jobs and joining the country&#8217;s military. Preference is given unabashedly to Mexicans over foreigners.</p>
<p>While you read this passage, contemplate the inexorable push by open-borders groups to secure illegal alien &#8220;rights&#8221; to American jobs, American military assignments, American driver&#8217;s licenses, discounted U.S. college tuition and Obamacare:</p>
<blockquote><p>Only Mexicans by birth can perform all government employments, positions, or commissions in which the status of citizenship is indispensable. During peacetime, foreigners shall neither serve in the Army nor in the police bodies. During peacetime, only Mexicans by birth can serve in the Army, in the Navy or in the Air Force as well can perform any employment or commission within such corporations.</p>
<p>The same condition applies to captains, pilots, skippers, ship engineers, flight engineers and, in general, to every crew member in a ship or an airplane carrying the Mexican flag. In the same way, only Mexicans by birth can be port harbormasters, steersmen and airport superintendents.</p>
<p>Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners, under equal circumstances, for all kind of concessions, employments, positions or commissions of the government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.</p></blockquote>
<p>While amnesty advocates and civil liberties zealots in the U.S. decry &#8220;police state&#8221; tactics against illegal aliens, Mexico fiercely maintains laws against illegal border crossings; &#8220;verification visits&#8221; to enforce visa conditions; requirements that foreigners produce proof of legal status on demand; and enforcement and cooperation between and among immigration officials and law enforcement authorities at all levels in Mexico. Native-born Mexicans are also empowered to make citizens arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.</p>
<p>Mexico&#8217;s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest at any time. And for those seeking permanent residency or naturalization, Mexico requires that they must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.</p>
<p>Applicants are assessed based on a point system using factors such as level of education, employment experience, and scientific and technological knowledge. Property acquisition and ownership by foreigners is still severely restricted. Mexican corporations are banned from hiring illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Exit question: If such self-interested &#8220;nativism&#8221; is right and good for the protection and survival of Mexico, why not for the United States?</p>
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		<title>Head of Mexican Teachers&#8217; Union Arrested for Embezzling $200 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the money was wired to accounts in Switzerland, he said, while other funds were used on plastic surgery. Some $2.1 million was spent at the Neiman Marcus store in San Diego, Calif.]]></description>
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<p>The Mexican Teachers&#8217; union is a preview of things to come in Obamerica. Not only is it insanely powerful and brutally violent, but it&#8217;s also a hereditary guild whose members sell their jobs or pass them on to their kids. Unsurprisingly the education system isn&#8217;t very good, but it is embedded.</p>
<p>The leftist PRI may have decided that they are the only ones who can confront the teachers&#8217; union and the arrest of <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/26/3255893/mexico-arrests-elba-esther-gordillo.html">Elba Esther Gordillo is a major shot across the bow</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam accused Gordillo and her top aides of misusing more than 2.6 billion pesos – the equivalent of slightly more than $200 million – in union money.</p>
<p>Some of the money was wired to accounts in Switzerland, he said, while other funds were used on plastic surgery. Some $2.1 million was spent at the Neiman Marcus store in San Diego, Calif.</p>
<p>Authorities arrested Gordillo, 68, when she arrived near Mexico City on private jet from San Diego. Gordillo maintains a $1.6 million home in La Jolla, a San Diego suburb. Among the questionable expenditures that caught the attention of investigators, Murillo Karam said, were hangar rental and aircraft maintenance in San Diego.</p>
<p>Her detention marked a singular strike against the chief of a union that was once a pillar of support for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and comes at a crucial early stage as President Enrique Pena Nieto, a PRI member who took office Dec. 1, seeks to enhance his public support.</p>
<p>Opinion polls often rank Gordillo as the least popular of major political figures in Mexico. While not holding elected office currently, she has been both a senator and deputy in Congress. She&#8217;s widely blamed for an educational system that has kept Mexican children scoring lower on standardized tests than most other countries of its size or importance.</p>
<p>Gordillo, who holds the lofty title of “president for life” of the 1.5 million-member teachers’ union, abandoned her unconditional support of the PRI in the last decade, when the PRI was out of power, and became a political broker, delivering votes to the parties and candidates of her choice.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that may mean that this is less about reform and more about the PRI consolidating its control over the teachers&#8217; union. Corruption in Mexico isn&#8217;t really prosecuted unless it&#8217;s convenient for other political interests.</p>
<p>Removing Gordillo and penalizing her can also be seen as a thuggish PRI move to remind the union who controls the country now.</p>
<blockquote><p>Under Gordillo, who’s been in her position for 24 years, the union controlled the hiring of teachers. In some parts of Mexico, teachers’ jobs have been bought and sold, and the union rakes off money from salaries of phantom teachers.</p>
<p>In 2008, she bought 59 Hummers to give her aides in 2008, only to raffle them off when the media brought the purchase to light.</p></blockquote>
<p>The United States isn&#8217;t really that much better off. We&#8217;re developing a Mexican style bureaucracy with powerful unions holding entire cities hostage in corrupt bids to enhance their own wealth and power.</p>
<blockquote><p>“This is a woman who was able to successfully confront three successive presidents and to essentially block any attempt at reform, albeit cosmetic, in the education sector,” Mr. Guerra said. “This goes beyond education reform. This goes toward re-establishing the rule of the state.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Can Amnesty Be Stopped?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Blumer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eyeing a repeat of the 2007 "comprehensive immigration reform" meltdown. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/can-amnesty-be-stopped/20130130_amnesty2/" rel="attachment wp-att-176768"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176768" title="20130130_amnesty2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/20130130_amnesty2.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="209" /></a>Almost six years ago, the last time the Washington establishment tried and failed to shove &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform&#8221; down the nation&#8217;s collective throat, the unemployment rate <a href="http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/jul/wk2/art01.htm">was 4.5 percent</a>. In some quarters that&#8217;s considered &#8220;<a href="http://www.amosweb.com/cgi-bin/awb_nav.pl?s=wpd&amp;c=dsp&amp;k=full+employment">full employment</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now we have a much higher unemployment rate <a href="http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">of 7.9 percent</a>, 48 previous months during which the rate has been 7.8 percent or higher, and <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm">indications</a> of <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNU03008275">job-market pain</a> we haven&#8217;t seen since the Great Depression. Despite all of this, immigration &#8220;reform,&#8221; more properly characterized as &#8220;de facto amnesty for illegal aliens,&#8221; appears at this point to be on track towards passage.</p>
<p>Far more even than <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/31/obama-jobs-council-shutting-down-thursday/">the recent termination</a> of his &#8220;jobs council,&#8221; which met only four times in two years and accomplished nothing, President Barack Obama&#8217;s grim determination to push through &#8220;reform&#8221; in such persistently dire circumstances makes a mockery of his assertions that he cares about economic progress, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/10/16/163050988/transcript-obama-romney-2nd-presidential-debate">and that</a> &#8220;the most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Washington&#8217;s original attempt to circumvent the nation&#8217;s clear will during the second quarter of 2007 ultimately failed when the Senate rejected the related bill <a href="http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/06/28/further-reflection-on-voinovich/">by a vote of 46-53</a> on June 28.</p>
<p>Just a few days earlier, the measure&#8217;s passage seemed assured. What happened? In an effort which in retrospect was a precursor of the longer-lasting and still quite powerful Tea Party movement, deeply concerned Americans rose up in massive numbers and demanded a rejection of what became known, largely as a result of efforts by extraordinary and tireless columnist and blogger <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/page/7/?s=shamnesty">Michelle Malkin</a>, as &#8220;shamnesty.&#8221; Everyday Americans&#8217; powers of persuasion were such that when the bill&#8217;s failure became a foregone conclusion on the Senate floor, <a href="http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/07/01/quick-thanks-to-dirk-thompson-additional-info-on-voinovich-and-brown/">both senators from Ohio</a> retreated from days-earlier public positions of strong support and voted &#8220;no.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then-Senator Barack Obama <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00235#position">voted &#8220;yes.&#8221;</a> Though that vote kept him in good standing with the radical amnesty advocates at La Raza, the historical record shows that Obama played a critical role in the bill&#8217;s ultimate rejection when he voted several weeks earlier, as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/AR2007061301966.html">the late Robert Novak noted</a>, to include a &#8220;poison pill&#8221; provision in the law &#8220;aimed at emasculating the essential guest-worker program.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s move was then seen as &#8220;surprising&#8221; (again via Novak):</p>
<blockquote><p>because he had participated, uninvited, one time in the bipartisan negotiating process. He had demanded and won a provision permitting immigrants to stay on the job after being designated &#8220;not employable&#8221; by the government under the new system until their appeals were exhausted.</p></blockquote>
<p>In hindsight, Obama&#8217;s about-face, as has seemingly been the case throughout his career as a legislator and then as President, was about enhancing his career. His maneuver, as noted, made the passage of immigration &#8220;reform&#8221; unlikely. Why would he do this? Obama and his handlers apparently calculated that they had to keep the &#8220;need&#8221; for &#8220;reform&#8221; available as a campaign issue during his nomination fight against Hillary Clinton. If the immigration issue had gone away, as would have been the case if &#8220;reform&#8221; had passed, Obama&#8217;s ability to mobilize support among Hispanics and other groups heavily supported by the then-influential radicals at ACORN would have been seriously compromised.</p>
<p>The cynical calculations continued into Obama&#8217;s presidency. Obama correctly believed that his Hispanic supporters, after grousing a bit about his inaction, wouldn&#8217;t abandon him at reelection time if he ignored immigration &#8220;reform&#8221; during his first term. He was right.</p>
<p>Since the 2007 rejection of &#8220;shamnesty,&#8221; the government has had ample opportunity to do the one thing it can do without the benefit of legislation: enforce and secure our country&#8217;s borders. Instead, under Obama, as a suit <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/immigration-agents-sue-obama-administration-over-illegal-alien-policies">brought last summer</a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shows, border enforcement has turned into a national laughingstock:</p>
<blockquote><p>The agents allege that President Obama’s policies have reduced the number of illegal aliens who will be deported back to their country of origin.</p>
<p>The ICE agents allege in their lawsuit that &#8230; they must choose between enforcing federal laws and being disciplined by their commanders, or obeying their supervisors thereby violating oaths of office and a Clinton administration law &#8212; passed by a bi-partisan Congress in 1996 &#8212; that mandates the deportation of illegal aliens.</p>
<p>&#8230; In the 20-page legal complaint, the agents state they’ve been ordered to ignore an entire category of illegal aliens. The agents allege they were told to stop requesting proof of citizenship or immigration status.</p></blockquote>
<p>Almost no other country tolerates a situation where non-citizens can enter their country and stay with virtual impunity &#8212; certainly not Mexico, whose sanctions against those who it finds are in their country illegally are <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/04/mexico%E2%80%99s-immigration-laws-the-untold-story/">especially harsh</a>.</p>
<p>Absent controlled borders, efforts to provide a &#8220;path to citizenship&#8221; to the millions who knowingly entered and stayed in the U.S. illegally will not only cause even larger waves of illegals to arrive so they can someday start down the same &#8220;path.&#8221; It will also enable those who attain citizenship to bring in millions of spouses, children, and other relatives. The strain on schools, public-health systems, social services, infrastructure, and government finances at all levels will be incalculable.</p>
<p>With unemployment already stubbornly high and seemingly destined to stay there as long as Obama occupies the White House, where will all of these new arrivals find jobs? The President and those who support &#8220;shamnesty&#8221; are, despite their platitudes, unconcerned about such things. Securing a permanent leftist governing majority is far more important than fixing a largely broken economy.</p>
<p>More and more, immigration &#8220;reform&#8221; looks like yet another application of the system-breaking <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/the_cloward-piven_way.html">Cloward-Piven strategy</a>.</p>
<p>Conservatives who go along with this deeply misguided scheme may not like the verdict their voters render when they are next up for reelection.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic Mexico is in the midst of a crisis of faith. According to a local businessman, who asked to remain anonymous, it is widely believed that within a decade, Chiapas will be the first federal state in Mexico to turn its back on the Church.]]></description>
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<p>It would seem as if Bishop Ruiz&#8217;s brand of Liberation Theology <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4325850,00.html">has had the same effect on Chiapas </a>as on Europe. Chiapas is poor, but it&#8217;s now also appearing to trend Islamic as any region under the influence of the left eventually does. When you kill the local religion and replace it with social justice, foreign religions eventually take its place.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the mid-1990s, a leftist resistance group which calls itself The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) made Chiapas its home. Its attempts to fight the Mexican Army repeatedly failed, but the Zapatistas are still very active in the district&#8217;s rural areas. Chiapas is considered a dangerous place, where every home has an arms arsenal of its own; and like many other places in Mexico, Chiapas&#8217; streets have become the battlefield where the government and local drug lords wrestle for dominance.</p>
<p>Chiapas, however, harbors an even more sinister secret: It is also a hub of radical Islamist activity.</p>
<p>Catholic Mexico is in the midst of a crisis of faith. According to a local businessman, who asked to remain anonymous, it is widely believed that within a decade, Chiapas will be the first federal state in Mexico to turn its back on the Church.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Muslim missionaries are very active there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to know exactly how many people have converted to Islam over the past few years.&#8221;</p>
<p>In December 2011, the US authorities released an indictment filed against Lebanese drug lord Ayman Juma, which exposed Hezbollah&#8217;s involvement with the Los Zetas drug cartel. According to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Los Zetas is the most technologically advanced and most dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.</p>
<p>Juma was indicted in absentia for smuggling 85 tons of cocaine into the US and for laundering $850 million for Los Zetas. He was also accused of serving as a go-between for the Mexican crime syndicate and the Shiite terror group.</p>
<p>According to US officials, for a modest 8%-14% commission, Juma&#8217;s money laundering process would take about a week. The operation involved bank accounts in dozens of countries, making it virtually impossible to track the dirty money.</p>
<p>US intelligence concluded that Hezbollah has established sleeper cells, intelligence infrastructure and training bases in Mexico and other South American countries. The Shiite group is also helping the drug lords build smuggling tunnels under the US-Mexico border and satellite images show that they are nearly identical to the maze of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border.</p>
<p>Hezbollah is also training the cartels&#8217; operatives in the dubious art of explosives, helping drug lords improve their bomb-making skills.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now why would they need to learn how to make better bombs?</p>
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		<title>Mexican Teachers May Lose Ability To Pass On Their Jobs to Their Children</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of teachers are blocking highways and seizing government buildings across Mexico to protest a federal education reform ending their longtime practice of selling their jobs or giving them to their children.]]></description>
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<p>If you want to see the feudalism toward which America&#8217;s public sector unions are headed, look no further than Mexico where teaching positions aren&#8217;t a job, t<a href="http://www.chron.com/life/mom-houston/article/Striking-Mexico-teachers-see-jobs-as-things-to-1642091.php">hey&#8217;re membership in a guild that can be passed on to your children</a> so that teachers can give birth to teachers who will go on teaching for all eternity until no one can read or write anymore.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tens of thousands of teachers are blocking highways and seizing government buildings across Mexico to protest a federal education reform ending their longtime practice of selling their jobs or giving them to their children.</p></blockquote>
<p>They&#8217;re doing it for the children&#8230; literally. Their children.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re fighting to guarantee jobs for our kids,&#8221; Oscar Miranda said as he helped teachers stage a protest in front of the governor&#8217;s office in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos. &#8220;Throughout history the sons of carpenters have become carpenters. Even politicians&#8217; children become politicians. Why shouldn&#8217;t our children have the same right?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Wake up America, this is what we are headed for.</p>
<p>Trying to turn America into Mexico, institutionally and demographically, will lead to actual feudalism, composed of guilds of fake professionals.</p>
<p>But you can also sell teaching jobs.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Teaching jobs were routinely bought and sold for as much as $6,000. That&#8217;s as much as beginning teachers make in a year. The jobs are still coveted because they provide steady income, particularly in poor areas.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now that the leftist PRI is back in power in Mexico, they are following through on a pledge to end the whole &#8220;Passing on Public Sector Jobs to Your Children&#8221; business, which Felipe Calderon tried and failed to do.</p>
<blockquote><p>Addressing teachers at a ceremony in Mexico City, President Enrique Pena Nieto laid out a proposal that would champion merit-based teacher promotions and chip away at the union&#8217;s power to hire teachers on its own terms. &#8220;Your rights will be safe because your income, tenure and promotion will not be subject to discretionary criteria. Good teachers will have the opportunity to advance based on their professional merits.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So how broken does a system have to be before a leftist politician embraces merit promotions for teachers? This broken.</p>
<p>But now <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-education-bill-threatens-powerful-teachers-union-010741665--business.html">can you imagine living in a country</a> where the left is actually opposed to teacher&#8217;s unions?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;No more promotions for loyalty, (or) cronyism with union leaders,&#8221; said Jesus Zambrano, who heads the leftist opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). &#8220;Let&#8217;s have promotion be based on teacher merit and professionalism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Right winger! He hates the middle class! He wants to destroy education! We need to protect our kids from education reform that will drain us of the best teachers who happen to be genetically born to other teachers!</p>
<p>So teachers&#8217; unions may once again go on strike in Mexico and that&#8217;s serious business over there. Sure our teachers&#8217; unions are nasty, <a href="http://www.wtop.com/220/3078715/Mexico-raids-seized-campuses-battle-protesters-">but they do worse over there</a> than punch people in the face.</p>
<blockquote><p>Police raided three teachers colleges on Monday in the western state of Michoacan, where dozens of students had been hijacking buses and delivery trucks for a week to protest curriculum changes.</p>
<p>Masked protesters battled police with rocks and fireworks. Student involved in the campus takeovers burned a dozen trucks and buses before authorities swept in, detaining 176 strikers. Ten police officers were injured, three seriously, the Michoacan state government reported.</p>
<p>The standoff at the teachers colleges began over a week ago, when students seized the campuses to protest plans to require them to take English and computer science courses. The protesters say the colleges are meant to prepare teachers for rural areas where basic skills are more of a priority.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you want this to come to America, just keep voting for Democrats and keep the borders open.</p>
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