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MEXICO ON BRINK OF IMPLOSION.. THEY
CAN’T EXPORT THEIR POOR, CRIMINAL AND PREGNANT FAST ENOUGH! AND BARACK OBAMA
WORKS FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY DEVICES, AND THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS!
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"Mexico
seems to be a society that is on the brink of implosion," laments Ira
Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
"The Mexican government is losing control of large sections of the
country. There is violence that is just spilling out of control in those
places, and it's right at our doorstep."
In fact,
he says the hostility has already affected the U.S. side of the border.
"We've even lost control of certain places inside our country," the
FAIR spokesman explains. "Some of the border areas have been deemed too
dangerous, even for government personnel to go in."
But
Mehlman notes that the Obama administration does not seem to be taking this
border crisis too seriously
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Mexico on
'brink of implosion'
Chad
Groening - OneNewsNow - 9/7/2010
An
immigration reform activist thinks the continued rampant violence in Mexico
should serve as a stern warning to Americans that it's essential for the U.S.
government to shut down the border.
The U.W.
State Department recently told American diplomats in the northern Mexican city
of Monterrey to remove their children from the area due to growing threats of
kidnappings and because of a shoot-out that took place in front of an American
school there.
Beginning
September 10, the Department says the U.S. consulate general in Monterrey will
become a "partially unaccompanied post," meaning diplomats and other
government personnel stationed there will not be allowed to have their minor
children with them.
Mexican
authorities have also confirmed that a second migrant survived the recent
massacre of 72 Central and South Americans near the border where U.S.
authorities suspect the Zetas drug gang killed the migrants for refusing to
smuggle drugs.
"Mexico seems to be a society that is on
the brink of implosion," laments Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation
for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "The Mexican government is losing
control of large sections of the country. There is violence that is just
spilling out of control in those places, and it's right at our doorstep."
In fact, he says the hostility has already affected
the U.S. side of the border. "We've even lost control of certain places
inside our country," the FAIR spokesman explains. "Some of the border
areas have been deemed too dangerous, even for government personnel to go
in."
But Mehlman notes that the Obama
administration does not seem to be taking this border crisis too seriously
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CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR SAW IT COMING IN 2005, AND OUR GOV HAS ONLY CONTINUED TO EXPOSE
US TO MEX GANGS, DRUG CARTELS, AND MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS
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FROM
2005… DO YOU THINK IT’S BETTER OR WORSE…?
Is Mexico
still a nation?
The
Monitor's View
A survey
released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center found more than four in 10
Mexicans are willing to leave their country to live in the US. One in five
would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing. Most surprising, one in three
college graduates wants to flee. Before Washington takes up immigration reform
this fall, it needs to take a hard look at Mexico's disillusionment.
Already,
one in eight adults born in Mexico now lives in the US. And the Mexican economy
is kept afloat partially by an estimated $16 billion sent back by immigrants to
relatives.
Such
numbers reveal a people so fed up with Mexico's dysfunctional politics and
stagnant economy that their nationalism is wilting. While more than half of
Mexico's 106 million people are officially poor, the Pew survey found an
inclination to migrate "evident across a broad swath" of the
population.
This wide
push to leave is probably now as strong as the pull of higher wages, social
advancement, and family connections in the US. And yet, Mexican leaders remain
in denial about this propensity for mass exodus.
All this
spells trouble for proposals by President Bush and some in Congress to set up a
temporary worker program as a way to reduce the burden of illegal migration.
The Mexican demand for such US "guest" visas could be, by some
estimates, half a million a year. Yet the numbers in the proposals fall far
short of that. The US could hardly absorb such a large wave of humanity without
further challenges to its civic stability.
In other
words, a guest-worker plan is a false promise of ending the waves of illegal
border crossings. The challenges on America's southern flank are only getting
worse. Arizona and New Mexico this month declared emergencies along their
borders with Mexico, citing a rise in crime related to drug and people
smuggling - and an inability by Washington to stem the violence. And the US
ambassador to Mexico also criticized its leaders for not curbing border
violence; he made a point by closing the consulate in Nuevo Laredo.
Just five
years ago, Mexico had great hope of reform after the ouster of the
Revolutionary Institutional Party, or PRI, which had governed since 1929. But
President Vicente Fox's reform efforts have faltered. The nation's three main
parties remain internally divided and unable to compromise. Decades of oil
wealth have left people too willing to take handouts rather than accept the
kind of taxation that creates citizens with a stake in government. With Mr. Fox
a lame duck, Mexico is heading for a presidential election next July that could
see another weak leader.
As
dissatisfaction with politics and justice translates into Mexicans voting with
their feet, the US needs to recognize that the "border issue" is much
more of a "Mexico issue."
The US
should further beef up border security, but also help Mexico regain national
integrity. Legally hiring Mexicans is hardly a solution.
As it is
doing with Africa, the US must peg better economic relations to better
governance in Mexico, such as laws allowing referendums and run-offs for
presidential elections. Rather than view such pressure as gringo meddling, the
Mexican people might just welcome a challenge to their government. And think of
staying put.
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The
principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent
Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard
economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion
annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market
at the low-wage end.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard
about the high number of Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
Palo Alto, Calif.
President Obama
has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on
a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make
some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The US
must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all from
Latin America.
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
The political
realities of the rapidly growing Latino population are such that Mr. Obama may
be the last president who can avert the permanent, vast underclass implied by
the current Census Bureau projection for 2050.
Do I sound like a
right-wing "nativist"? I'm not. I'm a lifelong Democrat; an early and
avid supporter of Obama. I'm gratified by his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to
the Supreme Court. I'm also the grandson of Eastern European Jewish immigrants;
and a member, along with several other Democrats, of the advisory boards of the
Federation for American Immigration Reform and Pro English. Similar concerns
preoccupied the distinguished Democrat Barbara Jordan when she chaired the
congressionally mandated US Commission on Immigration Reform in the 1990s.
Congresswoman
Jordan was worried about the adverse impact of high levels of legal and illegal
immigration on poor citizens, disproportionately Latinos and African-Americans.
The principal beneficiaries of our
current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at
substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates
that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by
the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.
The healthcare
cost of the illegal workforce is especially burdensome, and is subsidized by
taxpayers. To claim Medicaid, you must be legal, but as the Health and Human
Services inspector general found, 47 states allow self-declaration of status
for Medicaid. Many hospitals and clinics are going broke because of the
constant stream of uninsured, many of whom are the estimated 12 million to 15
million illegal immigrants. This translates into reduced services, particularly
for lower-income citizens.
The US population
totaled 281 million in 2000. About 35 million, or 12.5 percent, were Latino.
The Census Bureau projects that our population will reach 439 million in 2050,
a 56 percent increase over the 2000 census. The Hispanic population in 2050 is
projected at 133 million – 30 percent of the total and almost quadruple the
2000 level. Population growth is the principal threat to the environment via
natural resource use, sprawl, and pollution. And population growth is fueled
chiefly by immigration.
Consider what
this, combined with worrisome evidence that Latinos are not melting into our
cultural mainstream, means for the US. Latinos have contributed some positive
cultural attributes, such as multigenerational family bonds, to US society. But
the same traditional values that lie behind Latin America's difficulties in
achieving democratic stability, social justice, and prosperity are being
substantially perpetuated among Hispanic-Americans.
Prominent Latin
Americans have concluded that traditional values are at the root of the
region's development problems. Among those expressing that opinion: Peruvian
writer Mario Vargas Llosa; Nobelist author Octavio Paz, a Mexican; Teodoro
Moscoso, a Puerto Rican politician and US ambassador to Venezuela; and Ecuador's
former president, Osvaldo Hurtado.
Latin America's
cultural problem is apparent in the persistent Latino high school dropout rate
– 40 percent in California, according to a recent study – and the high
incidence of teenage pregnancy, single mothers, and crime. The perpetuation of
Latino culture is facilitated by the Spanish language's growing challenge to
English as our national language. It makes it easier for Latinos to avoid the
melting pot and for education to remain a low priority, as it is in Latin
America – a problem highlighted in recent books by former New York City deputy
mayor Herman Badillo, a Puerto Rican, and Mexican-Americans Lionel Sosa and
Ernesto Caravantes.
Language is the
conduit of culture. Consider: There is no word in Spanish for "compromise"
(compromiso means "commitment") nor for "accountability," a
problem that is compounded by a verb structure that converts "I dropped
(broke, forgot) something" into "it got dropped" ("broken,"
"forgotten").
As the USAID
mission director during the first two years of the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua, I had difficulty communicating "dissent" to a government
minister at a crucial moment in our efforts to convince the US Congress to
approve a special appropriation for Nicaragua.
I was later told
by a bilingual, bicultural Nicaraguan educator that when I used
"dissent" what my Nicaraguan counterparts understood was
"heresy." "We are, after all, children of the Inquisition,"
he added.
In a letter to me
in 1991, Mexican-American columnist Richard Estrada described the essence of
the problem of immigration as one of numbers. We should really worry, he wrote,
"when the numbers begin to favor not only the maintenance and
replenishment of the immigrants' source culture, but also its overall growth,
and in particular growth so large that the numbers not only impede assimilation
but go beyond to pose a challenge to the traditional culture of the American
nation."
Obama should
confront the challenges by enforcing immigration laws on employment to help end
illegal immigration. We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the
needs of the economy, as Ms. Jordan urged, and (2) past performance of
immigrant groups with respect to acculturation.
We must declare
our national language to be English and discourage the proliferation of
Spanish- language media. We should limit citizenship by birth to the offspring
of citizens. And we should provide immigrants with easy-to-access educational
services that facilitate acculturation, including English language, citizenship,
and American values.
Lawrence Harrison
directs the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School, Tufts University,
in Medford, Mass. He is the author of "The Central Liberal Truth: How
Politics Can Change A Culture And Save It From Itself."
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