DON’T WE HAVE ENOUGH MEXICAN DRUGS AND ILLEGALS BEING DRIVEN OVER OUR HIGHWAYS?
HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS, FREQUENTLY DRIVING DRUNK!
From the Los Angeles Times
Editorial
A roadblock to Mexico
In a move that defies the North American Free Trade Agreement and hurts U.S. workers, Congress is denying Mexican truckers permission to travel more than a few miles north of the border.
March 24, 2009
Thanks to the latest protectionist move by Congress to dodge our free-trade obligations with Mexico, in six to eight weeks, more than 20,000 pounds of California strawberries that ordinarily would be headed south of the border will have nowhere to go. The 80,000 people employed by the industry, however, know exactly where their jobs will be headed -- into thin air. At least that's the worst-case scenario if Congress doesn't find a way to honor the North American Free Trade Agreement and give Mexican trucks permission to travel more than a few miles north of the border, as required by the treaty.
Earlier this month, Congress killed a successful pilot project that gave a handful of Mexican truckers freedom to haul products beyond a circumscribed region, citing specious environmental and safety concerns. And Mexico responded by slapping tariffs on 90 U.S. exports. But let's be clear, this isn't about safety; Congress just wants the benefits of free trade without the sacrifices that come with it. Nor is this recalcitrance new. In 1995, after the United States refused to comply with NAFTA's cross-border trucking provision, Mexico negotiated for three years and then sought help from an arbitration panel. The result was a unanimous ruling that the U.S. was in violation of the treaty and that Mexico was within its rights to retaliate. In response, Congress introduced 22 new safety requirements for Mexican trucks. Finally, after more negotiations, the two countries compromised on an 18-month demonstration project that permitted 45,000 border crossings by 103 trucks from Mexico and 61 from the United States. The safety records were excellent, giving the lie to the idea that the program created a hazard.
The California congressional delegation must take the lead on this matter and revive the program. Free trade is not a zero-sum game in which double-dealing with Mexico benefits U.S. workers. Maybe the Teamsters are now safe from competition, but other workers and industries will suffer. The state's grape growers, for example, face a staggering 45% tariff on their exports, which would effectively close a market worth $58 million to them and jeopardize the livelihoods of 50,000 people. Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), who sponsored the amendment killing the pilot program, says he'll support Mexican trucking if his safety concerns are addressed; the Obama administration says it is committed to a new program, and the U.S. trade representative is crafting new legislation now. But they need to hurry. After 14 years of reneging on this program, the U.S. has to make good on its word -- in the next eight weeks.
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TODAY THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION by 38 million illegals will grow. Dems for OPEN BORDERS, Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Lofgren, Eshoo, Harman, Baca, Farr, Clinton AND OBAMA will toy with a way to hand them AMNESTY without using the “A” word.
Our borders will remain UNDEFENDED while we squander massive amounts of money over in Iraq. The sole purpose of that SECOND BUSH WAR was to protect the filthy SAUDIS and BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL from Saddam! Yes, a war to protect the filth that invaded us 9-11!!!
CNN reports that the Mexican drug cartel has been identified as operating in 220 American cities, just as FEINSTEIN, BOXER, PELOSI, WAXMAN fight for open borders.
Speaker of the House Pelosi has as much contempt for AMERICAN LAW as the typical Mexican. She tells ICE to lay off enforcement of laws against illegals, just as Los Angeles, with its MEXICAN RACIST SUPREMACIST MAYOR, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA, pays out $40 million per MONTH in welfare to illegals, and has the largest MEXICAN GANG INFESTED CITY IN THE COUNTRY. In Taco Runt’s Mexican welfare state 47% of those employed are ILLEGALS with stolen social security numbers.
“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
BOTH FEINSTEIN AND PELOSI HAVE LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT DEPRESSED WAGES! AND HAVE TAKEN MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF CAMPAIGN BRIBES TO SERVICE THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FROM DEPRESSED WAGES BY HIRING ILLEGALS!
INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens. 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens. 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens. 50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
From the Los Angeles Times
Drug cartels raise the stakes on human smuggling
Exploitation of illegal immigrants has become worse, officials say, and the failure of U.S. agencies to work together has hindered efforts to stop the organizations.
By Josh Meyer
March 23, 2009
Reporting from Washington — Mexican drug cartels and their vast network of associates have branched out from their traditional business of narcotics trafficking and are now playing a central role in the multibillion-dollar-a-year business of illegal immigrant smuggling, U.S. law enforcement officials and other experts say.
The business of smuggling humans across the Mexican border has always been brisk, with many thousands coming across every year.
But smugglers affiliated with the drug cartels have taken the enterprise to a new level -- and made it more violent -- by commandeering much of the operation from independent coyotes, according to these officials and recent congressional testimonies.
U.S. efforts to stop the cartels have been stymied by a shortage of funds and the failure of federal law enforcement agencies to collaborate effectively with one another, their local and state counterparts and the Mexican government, officials say.
U.S. authorities have long focused their efforts on the cartels' trafficking of cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamines, which has left a trail of violence and corruption.
Many of those officials now say that the toll from smuggling illegal immigrants is often far worse.
The cartels often further exploit the illegal immigrants by forcing them into economic bondage or prostitution, U.S. officials say. In recent years, illegal immigrants have been forced to pay even more exorbitant fees for being smuggled into the U.S. by the cartel's well-coordinated networks of transportation, communications, logistics and financial operatives, according to officials.
Many more illegal immigrants are raped, killed or physically and emotionally scarred along the way, authorities say. Organized smuggling groups are stealing entire safe houses from rivals and trucks full of "chickens" -- their term for their human cargo -- to resell them or exploit them further, according to these officials and documents.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) said greed and opportunity had prompted the cartels to move into illegal immigrant smuggling.
"Drugs are only sold once," Sanchez, the chairwoman of the House Homeland Security border subcommittee, said in an interview. "But people can be sold over and over. And they use these people over and over until they are too broken to be used anymore."
The cartels began moving into human smuggling in the late 1990s, initially by taxing the coyotes as they led bands of a few dozen people across cartel-controlled turf near the border.
After U.S. officials stepped up border enforcement after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the price of passage increased and the cartels got more directly involved, using the routes they have long used for smuggling drugs north and cash and weapons south, authorities said.
Sometimes they loaded up their human cargo with backpacks full of marijuana. In many cases, they smuggled illegal immigrants between the two marijuana-growing seasons, authorities said.
Kumar Kibble, deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's office of operations, said the cartels made money by taxing coyotes and engaging in the business themselves.
"Diversification has served them well," Kibble said.
Unlike the drug-trafficking problem, the cartels' involvement in human smuggling has received scant attention in Washington.
That is the case even as the Obama administration and Congress increasingly focus their attention on Mexico, fearing that its government is losing ground in a battle against the cartels that has resulted in the deaths of more than 7,000 people since the beginning of 2008.
At one of many congressional hearings on the subject last week, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) unveiled a chart that he said described the cartels' profit centers: drugs, weapons and money laundering.
"I would add one thing, senator," said Arizona Atty. Gen. Terry Goddard, who then described to Durbin his concerns about the cartels' movement into illegal immigrant smuggling. "It is really a four-part trade, and it has caused crime throughout the United States."
Arizona has become the gateway not only for drugs, but also illegal immigrants. Fights over the valuable commodity have triggered a spate of shootings, kidnappings and killings, Goddard and one of his chief deputies said in interviews.
In Arizona, the cartels grossed an estimated $2 billion last year on smuggling humans, Goddard said.
Senior officials from various federal law enforcement agencies confirmed that they were extremely concerned about the cartels' human smuggling network.
In recent years, the U.S. government has taken significant steps to go after illegal immigrant smugglers on a global scale, setting up task forces, launching public awareness campaigns and creating a Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center to fuse intelligence from various agencies.
But at the southern border, the effort has stumbled, in part because Homeland Security and various Justice Department agencies have overlapping responsibilities and are engaging in turf battles to keep them, Goddard and numerous other federal and state officials said.
The vast majority of ICE agents cannot make drug arrests, for instance, even though the same smugglers are often moving illegal immigrants.
The reason: The Drug Enforcement Administration has not authorized the required "cross-designation" authority for them, according to Kibble and others. A top DEA official said that was partly to prevent ICE agents from unwittingly compromising ongoing DEA drug investigations and informants working the cartels.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives focus almost exclusively on cartel efforts to smuggle large quantities of American-made weapons into Mexico.
"The only way we're going to be successful is to truly mount a comprehensive attack upon the cartels. They're doing a comprehensive attack on us through all four of these different criminal activities," Goddard told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee.
"I'm afraid in this country we tend to segregate by specialty the various areas that we are going to prosecute. And our experience on the border is we can't do that. We've got to cross the jurisdictional lines or we're going to fail."
Kibble agreed, saying that the cartels' diversification will require federal agencies to work together. "It means we need more teamwork so things don't slip through the cracks."
He added: "We are very focused on it and applying law enforcement pressure to all aspects of the cartels' activities."
Asked for comment, Justice Department officials referred calls to Homeland Security.
But authorities are also hampered by budget shortcomings and other obstacles.
Even though ICE has primary responsibility over illegal immigrant smuggling, it has only 100 agents dedicated to the task, Kibble said.
There is no line item in ICE's budget for human smuggling, so no one knows how much money is being spent on it, he told Sanchez's border subcommittee, before acknowledging that the agency needs more resources to fight the problem.
There are also not enough resources for providing medical treatment and protection for those illegal immigrants who are caught, so many of them are not available to testify, said Anastasia Brown, the director of refugee programs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
As a result, there have been relatively few prosecutions and convictions.
In fiscal 2008, ICE initiated 432 human smuggling investigations, including 262 cases of alleged sexual exploitation and 170 cases of suspected labor exploitation.
Those efforts resulted in 189 arrests, 126 indictments and 126 convictions related to human smuggling, according to Homeland Security documents provided to Congress.
Cameron H. Holmes, an assistant Arizona attorney general at the front lines of the fight against cross-border human smuggling, agreed that federal authorities were trying to collaborate better.
"Are they working together enough? Absolutely not. Are they being successful? Look around," Holmes said, before describing details of illegal immigrant smuggling cases in which people were killed or enslaved for years.
"We have a multibillion criminal industry that has grown up in the last 10 years and it all involves violations of federal law. I would not call that a success."
ISN’T IT TIME YOU TELEPHONED YOUR LA RAZA ENDORSED ELECTED WHORE THAT WORKS FOR ILLEGALS AND TELL HER YOU’RE GOING TO DRIVE HER OUT OF OFFICE !
OR SEND A COPY OF THIS TO HER. SHE DOESN’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT ANY CONSTITUENT THINKS, BUT IF SHE DOESN’T HAVE A JOBS, SHE’S IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE LIKE MILLIONS OF LEGAL AMERICANS!
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