January 3, 2016
So Democrats Love America More than Republicans?
In a column entitled "Which Party Loves the U.S.A.?," the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, Jr. presents an interesting formulation. Democrats love their country more than Republicans, because Democrats love it the way it is right now (with burgeoning non-white immigration, altering the demography), while Republicans (above all, Mr. Trump and Senator Cruz) "yearn for the United States of Then."
It appears that Mr. Dionne has in mind more than a mere change in color among our people when he observes, "Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley all stand for the rights of a younger America – today's country – that is less white, more Latino and Asian (and yes, more Muslim) than was the U.S. of the past. " For, he continues, "[t]he cultural changes that have reshaped us are welcomed as part of our historical trajectory toward justice and inclusion."
It appears that Mr. Dionne has in mind more than a mere change in color among our people when he observes, "Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley all stand for the rights of a younger America – today's country – that is less white, more Latino and Asian (and yes, more Muslim) than was the U.S. of the past. " For, he continues, "[t]he cultural changes that have reshaped us are welcomed as part of our historical trajectory toward justice and inclusion."
And so it appears that there was something good about the America of Then: it had an admirable historical trajectory. The problem, we venture to suppose, was that Americans of old did not realize that this trajectory of justice and inclusion pointed in the direction of making the white race the minority. Some of them may have thought that in the case of slavery, justice consisted in the end of the slave trade, followed by emancipation, followed by civil and voting rights. Others may have thought it good to have people come here from around the world, but perhaps not that justice dictated turning the country into Africa, Latin America, or Asia. Why is that the target of the historical trajectory for Dionne? Do justice and inclusion dictate against there being any white-majority countries? Is that a punishment justly meted out to the guilty white race because of its transgressions at the beginning of the historical trajectory?
The "United States of Then" seems to have had yet another virtue, in Dionne's estimation, since he tells us that liberals (among whom he surely numbers) pine for it. "Decades ago," America was "more economically equal," Democrats fondly recall. They similarly remember "liberalism's heyday during the New Deal and civil rights years." Was it during the New Deal, then, that the country was "more economically equal" – in the depths of the Great Depression? No matter.
Historical illustrations aside, we surmise that for Dionne, it is equality and more equality still that denote the historical trajectory toward justice. The younger America likely is not so deferential to the elderly and their morality. Age engenders no special deference any longer. The non-white America apparently is not so inclined to assimilate to the traditions and way of life hitherto characteristic of our people. Otherwise, why would their arrival betoken a change in the "culture"? The cultures of the world, including those characterized by sharia, are all as good as ours. What but a kind of atavism, a nostalgia for an American republic that is all but gone – and rightly so, since it stood opposed to other political systems and moralities, and did not let their representatives come here willy-nilly to change us – accounts for alarm at the current state of affairs by conservatives? This is not a "fallen nation," as they suppose. It is a nation that has progressed – all change in the direction of equality is progress – and it is the original scheme of the country, by now outdated, that has fallen.
When it is said that we love our country, what precisely is meant? In his Politics, Aristotle says that the country is the "regime" (the constitution, system of government, or way of life). The decision of individuals to live together within a certain moral compass is what defines the country, and a change of regime changes the country to a different one (consider, e.g., the Kaiser's Germany, Weimar Germany, Nazi Germany, Communist East Germany, democratic Germany). To love the nation defined by America's founding documents is not to love one transformed into socialism or leftist authoritarianism, into a violent theocracy, or into a decadent shell of democracy, in which every vestige of piety has been supplanted by hedonism. It is, rather, to protect the nation from being perverted and transformed into one of those things.
Mr. Dionne might reflect that the calendar has nothing to do with it. He and his co-ideologists would quickly enough express disapprobation of a country that they deemed "McCarthyist" or "racist." They did, before what had been the counter-culture in many respects became dominant.
BLOG: AND WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK ABOUT THE GREAT HISPANDERER, BARACK OBAMA, SURRENDERING OUR BORDERS AND LAWS TO NARCOMEX?
WHAT WILL THE ULTIMATE PRICE BE FOR THESE CRIMES?
Abraham Lincoln said, "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability." Those who love their country naturally will not look with indifference upon dramatic change in its people and laws. And one ascribing a superior patriotism to the proponents of such a change must explain why we need now abandon all that attended our rise to greatness.
The "United States of Then" seems to have had yet another virtue, in Dionne's estimation, since he tells us that liberals (among whom he surely numbers) pine for it. "Decades ago," America was "more economically equal," Democrats fondly recall. They similarly remember "liberalism's heyday during the New Deal and civil rights years." Was it during the New Deal, then, that the country was "more economically equal" – in the depths of the Great Depression? No matter.
Historical illustrations aside, we surmise that for Dionne, it is equality and more equality still that denote the historical trajectory toward justice. The younger America likely is not so deferential to the elderly and their morality. Age engenders no special deference any longer. The non-white America apparently is not so inclined to assimilate to the traditions and way of life hitherto characteristic of our people. Otherwise, why would their arrival betoken a change in the "culture"? The cultures of the world, including those characterized by sharia, are all as good as ours. What but a kind of atavism, a nostalgia for an American republic that is all but gone – and rightly so, since it stood opposed to other political systems and moralities, and did not let their representatives come here willy-nilly to change us – accounts for alarm at the current state of affairs by conservatives? This is not a "fallen nation," as they suppose. It is a nation that has progressed – all change in the direction of equality is progress – and it is the original scheme of the country, by now outdated, that has fallen.
When it is said that we love our country, what precisely is meant? In his Politics, Aristotle says that the country is the "regime" (the constitution, system of government, or way of life). The decision of individuals to live together within a certain moral compass is what defines the country, and a change of regime changes the country to a different one (consider, e.g., the Kaiser's Germany, Weimar Germany, Nazi Germany, Communist East Germany, democratic Germany). To love the nation defined by America's founding documents is not to love one transformed into socialism or leftist authoritarianism, into a violent theocracy, or into a decadent shell of democracy, in which every vestige of piety has been supplanted by hedonism. It is, rather, to protect the nation from being perverted and transformed into one of those things.
Mr. Dionne might reflect that the calendar has nothing to do with it. He and his co-ideologists would quickly enough express disapprobation of a country that they deemed "McCarthyist" or "racist." They did, before what had been the counter-culture in many respects became dominant.
BLOG: AND WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK ABOUT THE GREAT HISPANDERER, BARACK OBAMA, SURRENDERING OUR BORDERS AND LAWS TO NARCOMEX?
WHAT WILL THE ULTIMATE PRICE BE FOR THESE CRIMES?
Abraham Lincoln said, "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability." Those who love their country naturally will not look with indifference upon dramatic change in its people and laws. And one ascribing a superior patriotism to the proponents of such a change must explain why we need now abandon all that attended our rise to greatness.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/so_democrats_love_america_more_than_republicans.html#ixzz3wDP4dWdC
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Placating Americans with Fake Immigration Law Enforcement
MUCH MORE HERE:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/12/amnesty-hoax-to-keep-wages-depressed.html
How our leaders create fantasy 'solutions' for our immigration-related vulnerabilities.
By Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com, December 4, 2015
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Therefore the Visa Waiver Program should have been terminated after the terror attacks of 9/11 yet it has continually been expanded.
It is clear that the overarching goal of a succession of administrations and many members of Congress, irrespective of political party affiliation, is to keep our borders open and take no meaningful action to stop that flow of aliens into the United States.
. . .
The obvious question is why the Visa Waiver Program is considered so sacrosanct that even though it defies the advice and findings of the 9/11 Commission no one has the moral fortitude to call for simply terminating this dangerous program. The answer can be found in the incestuous relationship between the Chamber of Commerce and its subsidiary, the Corporation for Travel Promotion, now doing business as Brand USA. The Chamber of Commerce has arguably been the strongest supporter of the Visa Waiver Program, which currently enables aliens from 38 countries to enter the United States without first obtaining a visa.
The U.S. State Department provides a thorough explanation of the Visa Waiver Program on its website.
Incredibly, the official State Department website also provides a link, “Discover America,” on that website which relates to the website of The Corporation for Travel Promotion, which is affiliated with the travel industries that are a part of the “Discover America Partnership.”
. . .http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261005/placating-americans-fake-immigration-law-michael-cutler
The Customs and Border Protection agency has released statistics on illegal alien border crossing since the start of the fiscal year on October 1 and the numbers are worrying. The number of illegal alien children crossing the border alone has gone...
December 29, 2015
Big surge in illegal children, families crossing the border
The Customs and Border Protection agency has released statistics on illegal alien border crossing since the start of the fiscal year on October 1 and the numbers are worrying.
The number of illegal alien children crossing the border alone has gone up more than 100% over the same period last year while the number of families trying to enter the country illegally has soared by 173%.
The number of illegal alien children crossing the border alone has gone up more than 100% over the same period last year while the number of families trying to enter the country illegally has soared by 173%.
CNS News:
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THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEM PARTY IN THE MAKING:
But 75% of those released never show up for their hearing, and simply melt into the population. So what is the administration response to this current surge? Build more detention facilities which will eventually result in thousands more illegals being released.
If the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over while getting the same result, the administration is ready for a padded room.
According to CPB, 106 percent more unaccompanied alien children (UAC) under the age of 17 were apprehended illegally crossing the southern border of the U.S. between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, 2015 than during the same time a year ago.
Statistics released by the federal agency show that 10,588 UACs were apprehended at the nation’s southern border with Mexico compared to the first two months of FY2015, when 5,129 UACs were taken into custody.
The surge in unaccompanied minors was concentrated in two sectors – Big Bend in Texas and Yuma in Arizona– which both saw a more than 500 percent increase in the number of UACs crossing into the U.S. illegally. The El Paso sector was next, reporting a 250 percent increase.
The statistics also show an even larger surge in the number of family units apprehended at the border - a 173 percent increase so far in the first two months of FY2016.
According to statistics from FY2015 (Oct. 1 to Nov. 30, 2014) 4,577 family units were apprehended at the southwest border, compared to 12,505 during the same period in FY2016.
Three sectors – Big Bend, El Paso in Texas, and Yuma – saw more than a 500 percent increase in family unit apprehensions. “Family unit” is defined by CBP as either a parent or guardian with a child under 18 years old.
CBP also said that the Obama administration would be expanding its holding facilities to accommodate the latest surge in illegal immigration.
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – the two federal agencies tasked with logistics for these illegal immigrants – bed capacity increased from 7,900 to 8,400 in November and the federal government “is preparing for temporary bed space in the event that additional beds are needed.”Thousands of illegals who surged across the border in the last two years have already been released because of a court order filed by open borders advocates. Conditions are apparently not good in these holding facilities and the slow pace of bringing the illegals before an immigration judge has led to a huge backlog. Hence, a judge ordered the illegals released pending a hearing before a judge.
BLOG:
THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEM PARTY IN THE MAKING:
But 75% of those released never show up for their hearing, and simply melt into the population. So what is the administration response to this current surge? Build more detention facilities which will eventually result in thousands more illegals being released.
If the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over while getting the same result, the administration is ready for a padded room.
The Customs and Border Protection agency has released statistics on illegal alien border crossing since the start of the fiscal year on October 1 and the numbers are worrying.
If the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over while getting the same result, the administration is ready for a padded room.
If the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over while getting the same result, the administration is ready for a padded room.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/big_surge_in_illegal_children_families_crossing_the_border.html#ixzz3vjYh8eCF
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US military to expand global operations in 2016
US military to expand global operations in 2016
29 December 2015
The year 2015 will be remembered as a year of expanding global warfare and militarism. It began with discussions of the possibility of “total war” against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, saw new provocations against China in the South China Sea, and draws to a close amid the escalation of the US and European war in Iraq and Syria and the spread of conflict to Yemen, Libya and other parts of Africa.The imperialist powers are determined to make 2016 an even bloodier and more dangerous year. Germany and Japan are openly remilitarizing, as their governments seek to whitewash and rationalize the crimes of the World War II era. All of the imperialist powers have seized on the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino to place their populations and economies on a war footing.
The most dangerous factor is the US drive for global domination. The United States has its hands in virtually every country, employing drone assassinations, Special Forces operations and a network of military bases and agreements aimed at establishing unchallenged military domination over the planet, along with cyberspace and outer space.
More plans are afoot. Washington is preparing to expand its global basing system through the addition of a “larger network envisioned by the Pentagon,” which will include at least four new Special Forces hubs and numerous new “spoke” bases, according to a New York Times article published Monday.
The commando network will be centered on Eurasia and Africa but will be global in scope, according to Pentagon officials. Among the new bases will be a permanent establishment in Afghanistan, which will function as “a hub for Special Operations troops and intelligence operatives throughout Central and South Asia.”
The record of the US special units, which have emerged as the spearhead of the so-called “war on terror” since 2001, makes clear the murderous nature of the escalating commando war. US Special Forces have been granted a general license to carry out violence and mayhem in every part of the world with total disregard for international law. Thousands of US commandos are already operating in between 85 and 130 countries worldwide, according to varying estimates by US media sources.
The enlarged Special Forces network is only one element of a broader strategic escalation by Washington. US weapons manufacturers are collaborating with the government to channel an expanding war chest of arms to allied governments and proxy forces, with American weapons sales surging in recent years. In 2014, total US arms sales jumped by $10 billion to a total of $35 billion, giving US corporations control over 50 percent of the world weapons market, according to a congressional report released last week.
The intensified drive for a redivision affects every region of the world.
Europe
Washington is pre-positioning military equipment and deploying conventional forces and military “advisors” and trainers throughout Europe in preparation for war against Russia.
The US Army plans to double the number of tanks it has deployed to Europe, sending another full armored brigade to the continent, accompanied by infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons as well as an additional full Army division dedicated to joint operations with NATO and European militaries.
In Ukraine, US Army forces are training five battalions of active-duty forces and US Special Forces are partnering with the Ukrainian military to develop Ukraine commando units.
Asia Pacific
South Korea, a country that has been tapped to serve as a staging area for US war preparations against China, was the leading importer of US arms in 2014, purchasing nearly $8 billion worth of American-made weaponry.
In December, the Obama administration approved the sale of $1.8 billion worth of weapons to Taiwan, including warships previously used by the US Navy and several advanced missile systems. The sale was the first weapons transfer to Taiwan in years and was clearly intended as a provocation against Beijing.
In the Pacific, the US Army’s “Pacific Pathways” program is coordinating joint operations with Asia-Pacific militaries. In the course of 2015, the program saw the US conduct joint drills with units from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mongolia, South Korea and Thailand.
Middle East
Leading purchasers of US weapons in 2014 included the ultra-reactionary regimes of Saudi Arabia, which purchased $4 billion worth of TOW missiles, and Qatar, which purchased $9.8 billion worth of US arms. Qatar has been a major backer of Islamist forces in Syria in the US-backed civil war against Assad.
The US has spearheaded a new imperialist carve-up of the entire region, with Britain, France and Germany piling into the wars in Iraq and Syria toward the end of 2015 and Saudi Arabia leading a US-backed war in Yemen.
Africa
Total arms sales to Africa—particularly in the oil-rich regions—increased by 50 percent between 2010 and 2014 over the previous five-year period. Cameroon and Nigeria, which are collaborating with the growing US intervention in West Africa in the name of the “fight against Boko Haram,” were among the leading importers of weapons. Preparations are underway to relaunch military operations in Libya, already devastated by the US-NATO war that overthrew and murdered Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Cyber and outer space
Even cyberspace and outer space are not exempt from the US-led militarization drive. In November, the US was one of only four countries to vote against a United Nations resolution, “No First Placement of Weapons in Outer Space,” which was supported by more than 120 member states. In a presentation earlier this year, US Undersecretary of Defense Robert Work outlined Pentagon plans to deploy a range of space weapons, which Work claimed are necessary to ensure military dominance over Russia.
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The experience of the Obama administration has underscored the impossibility of opposing imperialist war outside of a struggle against the capitalist system and all of its political representatives. Having won office in 2008 as an antiwar candidate, presenting himself as an opponent of the war in Iraq and an antidote to the militarism of the Bush administration, President Obama has presided over an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, wars for regime change in Libya and Syria, and a new war in Iraq.
Obama’s talk about ending the war in Afghanistan has been exposed by his decision to keep thousands of US troops in the country and the plans to establish permanent US bases there. All of his pledges of “no ground troops” or “boots on the ground” in Iraq and Syria have been exposed as lies.
The divisions that exist within the US ruling elite and the state over foreign and military policy concern the focus and methods of US efforts to dominate the territory and resources of the world, with the Obama White House arguing for a concentration on the struggle against China and his opponents demanding a larger commitment of troops and weapons to turn the Middle East into a de facto US colony. But there is no “peace faction” within the corporate and political establishment, or either of the two big-business parties.
One side of the global crisis is the slide toward a new world war. The other is the development of revolutionary struggles by the working class. Vast resources are allocated to destruction and war, while growing sections of the US population are pushed into poverty and forced to struggle for basic necessities such as housing, education, nutrition and health care.
The struggle against war can be conducted only on the basis of the independent mobilization of the working class in the US and internationally against imperialism on the basis of a socialist and internationalist revolutionary program.
Thomas Gaist
THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE IN ALL AMERICAN CITIES.
THEY HAUL BACK TENS OF BILLIONS WHICH THEY USE TO BUY MORE OF THE NARCOMEX BORDER.
MEXICO'S BIGGEST EXPORTS TO AMERICA ARE POVERTY, CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS AND HEROIN!
“In addition to the distorted labor markets and higher tax bills for social welfare benefits that result from uncontrolled illegal immigration, the Obama administration’s anti-enforcement policies represent a threat to public safety from criminal aliens that ICE officers are told to release instead of detain and remove.“
“In addition to the distorted labor markets and higher tax bills for social welfare benefits that result from uncontrolled illegal immigration, the Obama administration’s anti-enforcement policies represent a threat to public safety from criminal aliens that ICE officers are told to release instead of detain and remove.“
2015: Another Year of Mexican Cartel Violence and Government Corruption
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — As another year comes to a close in Mexico, it has been filled with drug violence, controversy and crime. Rather than a decrease in drug crime, the country has begun to see escalating violence in places previously untouched. The sentiment expressed by many in this country is that widespread corruption is one of the main factors that continues to fuel raging violence.
Out of Control Violence
While most scholars and authors refer to Mexico’s drug war as having started in 2006 when then-President Felipe Calderon called on the Mexican military to retake his country, the violence was focused in certain areas such as the State of Michoacan and the iconic border city of Juarez. As previously reported by Breitbart Texas, it was during those years, that the fighting over lucrative drug territories led to fierce public battles and executions that earned Ciudad Juarez the nickname “Murder Capital of the World.”
Current war zones like the border cities in Tamaulipas were untouched until late 2009 when tensions began to rise between the Gulf Cartel and their former enforcers, Los Zetas. In February 2010, those two cartels went to war resulting in massive gun battles where convoys of 40-plus SUV’s with gunmen would drive into a city and be met with a similar sized convoy of their rivals.
The fighting between the two cartels ended up in a stalemate of sorts, however, the two cartels continued to fracture further resulting in smaller factions and even more violence.
In 2013, this reporter experienced first-hand one of those massive gun battles that paralyzed the border city of Reynosa. The massive firefights left scores of dead gunmen, however, the Mexican government minimized the events by only acknowledging two bystanders killed by stray bullets.
Spreading Violence
As time has progressed, places that were once free of drug violence have begun to see gory public executions. One of those places is Mexico City. In November, as previously reported by Breitbart Texas, cartel-tied gangs hung bodies from a bridge. The violence has also taken over the once tranquil state of Guerrero which was at one time a tourist destination with its resort town of Acapulco. The kidnapping and likely execution of 43 education students at the hands of cartel members and corrupt police officers has resulted in the uncovering of multiple mass graves in Guerrero. As Breitbart Texas reported, this points to an even deeper wave of cartel violence that the government has not acknowledged and continues to deny.
No Pasa Nada
Breitbart Texas has reported in the past about how Mexican officials at all levels of the government try to minimize the out of control violence. Those outlandish claims are eerily similar to the ones made by two former Tamaulipas governors during their time in office. Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba and Eugenio Hernandez Flores, both were often quoted by Mexican media trying to minimize or deny the regular firefights between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. As reported by Breitbart Texas, currently both Yarrington and Hernandez are considered fugitives by the U.S. Department of Justice on money laundering charges. Yarrington is also wanted on drug conspiracy charges. Despite being wanted by U.S. authorities, both fugitives routinely make public appearances in Mexico where they are surrounded by this country’s political elite.
The cloud of corruption that hangs over Mexico is not specific to Tamaulipas. Breitbart Texas recently reported on how a panel of judges in the border state of Coahuila released nine municipal police officers from Piedras Negras who had previously been convicted of working for Los Zetas. Suspiciously, soon after the police officers were released, the city has begun to see an alarming rise in violent murders including three persons that were beheaded by Los Zetas.
How High is the Corruption?
The widespread corruption in Mexico has led many to question if the highest levels of this country’s power are also linked to drug activity. The speculations were fueled even more this year when billionaire drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was able to escape from one of Mexico’s maximum security prisons. Initially, the escape was billed as a movie-like escape where Guzman was able to climb down into a mile long tunnel and use a motorcycle driven railcar towards his freedom.
Since then, as Breitbart Texas reported, the Mexican government has been shamed into admitting that Guzman had help from the inside as more and more jail guards and officials end up getting charged for their complicity.
Sensational Media Hurts Efforts to Report on Cartels and Corruption
Recently, the news outlet Business Insider tried to look at the theory of El Chapo’s escape having been an effort by the government to have the capo help reduce violence in that country. The story is not new, since most of the arguments presented there are regurgitated from a July article that Pulitzer Prize winner Ginger Thompson wrote after she had breakfast with three unnamed VIP’s from Mexico’s drug war. In that piece, a former cartel operative, a former Mexican intelligence official and his counterpart in the U.S. talked over breakfast about the theory that the government is likely behind El Chapo’s escape. Despite being several months late, the Business Insider piece does not add any new information or facts to the theory.
In another article by Business Insider, one of their writers, Christopher Woody wrote an article in late November and discusses how El Chapo “controls the entire U.S. drug market”. The assertion is again based on a DEA report that was released over the summer and Breitbart Texas published in September.
Business Insider is also one of the news outlets that fell for the various fake twitter accounts that many believed belonged to El Chapo and his sons. In that story, Woody again writes about how Guzman Loera and his sons are vacationing in Costa Rica. The information that Business Insider based their sensational story on comes from a doctored photograph that one of Guzman’s son was supposed to have tweeted in the fake account. Breitbart Texas published a story just days later debunking the claims about the fake tweets. The debunking came through an interview with Mexican musician Cesar Chalin who posted the original photograph that clearly showed that the persons in Costa Rica were not the Guzmans, but in fact just another family.
Business Insider is also the same publication that earlier this year claimed that only two cartels remained in Mexico. The claim could not be further from the truth as the continuous coverage of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas is the main focus of Breitbart’s Cartel Chronicles.
Historical Corruption
The speculation of Mexico’ elite having control over the drug trade is not new; actually it is a long standing tradition in that country. As reported by Breitbart Texas last year, Raul Salinas de Gortari, the brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was set free from prison after spending years locked up on various financial charges. During Carlos Salinas’ term in office, much attention was given to claims of his brother’s ties to organized crime. The claims were backed up by the execution of Mexican politician and power broker Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu. Raul Salinas was initially accused of having been behind it, but he was never jailed for it.
In 2009, Mexico’s El Universal quoted former Mexican President Miguel De La Madrid when he accused his predecessor Carlos Salinas de Gortari of having ties to drug traffickers.
So far, Mexico’s current president Enrique Pena Nieto has not been directly linked to drug traffickers, however, the politician has been tied to pay-for-play bribery from various businessmen. A team of Mexico’s top journalists were able to expose Pena Nieto as having received a house in exchange for lucrative contracts. Those journalists were rapidly fired, Breitbart Texas reported.
THE OBAMA ASSAULT ON AMERICA'S BORDERS
The Continuing Collapse of Immigration Enforcement
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428924/immigration-enforcement-collapse-continues?target=author&tid=982
Suppose you were the P.R. flack for a government agency and had some awkward information that nonetheless had to be released. A regular Friday afternoon news dump wouldn’t do, because of how bad it is. You need a miracle.
And then it hits you: Christmas week! Congress is gone. The presidential campaigns are in low gear. Half of Washington isn’t even at work, judging by how light the traffic is. As a character in a beloved Christmas movie observes, “It’s Christmas, Theo. It’s the time of miracles.”
You asked for miracles – I give you the D.H.S.: “Interior Enforcement Disintegrates Further in 2015“.
The original DHS press release, embargoed until 3 p.m., buries the lede in a lot of rigmarole, but the highpoints are these:
* Total deportations by ICE (including both border and interior cases) in Fiscal Year 2015 declined 25 percent from FY 2014, from 315,943 in 2014 to 235,413 in 2015.
* Interior deportations by ICE declined 31 percent, from 100,114 in 2014 to 69,478 in 2015.
* Deportations of criminal aliens from the interior declined 27 percent, from 86,923 in 2014 to 63,127 in 2015.
The number of interior deportations (as opposed to Border Patrol returns that Obama’s people now count as “deportations”) is now less than one-third of what it was in 2011, before the promulgation of new policies further handcuffing ICE agents. The number of criminal alien deportations from the interior is less than half of what it was in 2011.
Another few years of Obama (or Hillary) and we’ll be inviting deported illegals to move back. Oh, wait, Rubio already put that in his bill. As Mother Jones described it (my emphasis):
But when it came to who was eligible for that path to citizenship, both sides initially dug in, according to several Democratic aides who were present at the negotiations. Then Rubio blinked, agreeing to a compromise closer to the Democrats’ proposal. And he made an additional and unexpected concession: The bill would allow immigrants who had already been deported to return to the United States and get on the road to citizenship.
Rubio “gave up a lot, probably for something he should have still held firm,” says one aide. “And it’s not clear if that was because he was a bad negotiator or he had a good heart.”
But I’m sure he’s totally changed his mind about that too.
Overall Deportations Drop in 2015, 27% for Criminal Aliens
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 23, 2015
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Not surprisingly, the total number of deportations has also dropped thanks to President Obama’s policies—including broad amnesty—limiting federal immigration authorities from initiating removal proceedings. The latest DHS figures analyzed by CIS show total deportations in 2015 were one-third less than in 2011, before the Obama administration implemented its various initiatives to protect illegal aliens in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 25% less illegal immigrants last year than the previous year—from 315,943 in 2014 to 235,413 in 2015. Those figures include both border and interior cases. CIS also broke the numbers down by interior deportations and that number declined even more—31% from last year, from 100,114 in 2014 to 69,478 in 2015.
The figures are sure to drop further in the coming year, according to CIS Director of Policy Studies Jessica Vaughan, who recently testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing along with ICE Director Sarah Saldana. While Saldana expressed pride in her agency’s deportation numbers, Vaughan testified that they are abysmal. “This willful neglect has imposed enormous costs on American communities,” Vaughan told lawmakers. “In addition to the distorted labor markets and higher tax bills for social welfare benefits that result from uncontrolled illegal immigration, the Obama administration’s anti-enforcement policies represent a threat to public safety from criminal aliens that ICE officers are told to release instead of detain and remove. The administration’s mandate that ICE focus only on the ‘worst of the worst’ convicted criminal aliens means that too many of ‘the worst’ deportable criminal aliens are still at large in our communities.”
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/overall-deportations-drop-in-2015-27-for-criminal-aliens/
AMNESTY: THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASS ALONG THE REAL COST IN WELFARE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
"The U.S. now ranks at, or near, the top of developed countries for income inequality. Job creation has lagged far behind population growth. Automation has erased some jobs, but corrupt, inept government leadership is responsible for the deplorable job- deficit-low wage situation."
"It is clear that the overarching goal of a succession of administrations and many members of Congress, irrespective of political party affiliation, is to keep our borders open and take no meaningful action to stop that flow of aliens into the United States."
326,000 Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job in November: Why This Remains the Most Important Jobs Chart
By Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com, December 5, 2015
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We are confident that one can make the case that there are considerations on both the labor demand-side (whether US employers have a natural tendency to hire foreign-born workers is open to debate) as well as on the supply-side: it may be easier to obtain wage-equivalent welfare compensation for native-born Americans than for their foreign-born peers, forcing the latter group to be much more engaged and active in finding a wage-paying job.
However, the underlying economics of this trend are largely irrelevant: as the presidential primary race hits a crescendo all that will matter is the soundbite that over the past 8 years, 2.7 million foreign-born Americans have found a job compared to only 747,000 native-born. The result is a combustible mess that will lead to serious fireworks during each and every subsequent GOP primary debate, especially if Trump remains solidly in the lead.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-05/326000-native-born-americans-lost-their-job-november-why-remains-most-important-jobs
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