Corruption is once again the talk of Mexico
A few days ago, I was talking with a Mexican friend about COVID in Mexico. I was trying to find out more information about the cases and deaths in Mexico. He could not answer the question, and it wasn't because he did not want to... He just didn't know, and I can understand that, because no one else really does.
He did say corruption is the reason why doctors treating COVID-19 patients do not have better protective gear.
Corruption is a way of life south of the border, and most people are now realizing that it does more harm than good. It may get you a birth certificate quickly, but it poisons the bureaucracy.
Ioan Grillo, author and journalist, wrote this truth in the New York Times:
Corruption tears at the soul of Mexico, and many here see it as one of the country's leading problems. It's the reason killer cartels flourish, roads have potholes, and doctors treating Covid-19 don't have better protective gear. It also pervades everyday life, with bribes functioning as the grease that keeps the system moving, and in this way it makes a large part of the country complicit. Bureaucrats get cash tips for issuing birth certificates for example, and police pocket cash for turning a blind eye to motorists running red lights. The "angels" at the bottom take bribes, too.
But when the "gods" at the top are rotten it has the most devastating consequences.
Yes, it does. Let me share a simple example. During my time in Mexico, I was the passenger, and a colleague was driving to a business meeting. We were stopped by a policeman. It was a stupid reason, something like the brake light was not working.
The policeman was apologetic but started writing the ticket. My friend laughed and offered money. He looked at the peso bill and said it was not enough. My friend screamed. The policeman said he had to pass some of the bribe up the chain.
We increased the bribe and moved on. As we drove away, my friend said this is like a "pyramid" and everything that's wrong.
President Andrés López-Obrador promised to clean house — his version of draining the swamp. Can he do it? Many people are still hoping he can, but the clock is ticking.
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Mexico Has the World's 4th Highest Coronavirus Death Toll, But Democrats Want Open Borders
To what extent is migration from south of the border bringing up infections in America? That's a subject that the media has a block on despite increasing evidence, especially in Texas, of a link between migration and the virus.
Meanwhile country-level data (much of which is incomplete or worthless, but nonetheless) shows Brazil as having the world's second highest death toll while Mexico has the world's fourth highest death toll.
So of course it's the perfect time for Democrats to once again on their familiar program of open borders, dropping immigration enforcement at the border, welcoming any illegal migration who shows up as a refugee, and opening up international immigration all over again.
What could go wrong?
Houston: Lawsuit Seeks to Remove ‘Hundreds’ of Noncitizens from Voter Rolls
A lawsuit filed in Houston on Monday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) seeks to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.
The suit filed in Harris County alleged, “noncitizens were registered to vote, even after they identified themselves as noncitizens on their voter registration applications,” Fox 26 reported.
The suit included “dozens” of images showing a registrant checking the “No” box on the citizenship portion of the form.
According to PILF, hundreds of noncitizens were registered to vote for “several years before the error was identified and corrected.”
“In essence what we have here is evidence of people saying they are not U.S. citizens on voter registration records in Harris County, and yet they are becoming registered voters anyway,” PILF spokesman Logan Churchwell said.
Some of the applications were several years old. PILF has attempted to obtain more recent filings but has been rebuffed by Registrar Ann Harris Bennett.
Bennett refused to speak to Fox 26, but said later in a statement, “The Harris County Voter Registrar successfully maintains 2.4 million Harris County voter records.”
Churchwell told the news station that PILF attempted to obtain records from the registrar in 2017 and 2018 and was denied, so the group filed suit.
A recent report by PILF found 350,000 dead voters are still on the rolls across the country.
According to the report, titled, “Critical Condition: American Voter Rolls Filled with Errors, Dead Voters, and Duplicate Registrations,” 349,773 “deceased registrants” have been found on rolls in 41 states. Fifty-one percent of those are in New York, California, and Texas, as well as the battleground states of Michigan and Florida.
The report found that 43,760 “duplicate registrants appear to have cast second votes” from the same address in 2016, while 37,889 cast ballots in 2018.
In Michigan, where Donald Trump won in 2016 by 10,704 votes, PILF found there were 34,225 deceased voters still on the rolls and a combined 13,597 double voters in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
Some of those voters who are registered multiple times “are casting multiple ballots,” Adams recently told The Kyle Olson Show.
“Michigan voter rolls are a mess, and that’s exactly why Michigan should not be doing mail balloting until they clean up their act,” he said.
Adams contended cleaning up the “mess” would be as simple as sorting the list by address and “see who’s all crammed into one house.”
Kyle Olson is a reporter for Breitbart News. He is also host of “The Kyle Olson Show,” syndicated on Michigan radio stations on Saturdays. Listen to segments on YouTube or download full podcast episodes. Follow him on Twitter, like him on Facebook, and follow him on Parler.
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