President Lopez-Obrador and the Wall
Over the last few years, I've had conversations with friends in Mexico. We usually end up talking about the border. For us, the border is illegal immigration. For Mexicans, it's guns and cash corrupting a very fragile political system.
As a Mexican friend said recently, the cartels have the politicians in their pockets, especially in the small towns where many of these vans full of cash and guns drive through.
There are many reasons to build that border wall, as former Secretary of Education William Bennett said on Sunday: By weight, 86 percent of heroin that entered the United States in 2016 was of Mexican origin, according statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration."After 9/11 we shut down the border. When we shut down the border, drugs didn't come in," Bennett said. "If you shut down that border, if you close it off, if you build a wall, it can have a real and profound difference."
There is another reason, as any rational Mexican will tell you.
On a weekly basis, lots of cash and guns go south. They are the profits and rewards of the drugs going north. According to unofficial estimates:
Officials in Mexico believe the tide of laundered money could be as high as $50bn per year, a sum equal to about three per cent of Mexico's legitimate economy -- more than all its oil exports or spending on key social programmes. Internationally, money laundering represents between two and five per cent of global GDP, or between $800bn and $2tn annually, according to the UNODC.
It would be more difficult for money or guns to go south if you had a wall on the border.
So President Trump should pick up the phone and call President Lopez-Obrador. He should thank him for keeping the caravans in Mexico and discuss the benefits of the border wall. Why wouldn't the Mexican president support the wall? I'm sure that the Mexican army and police would love to see that wall go up.
The lack of a stable border hurts both sides.
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LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
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OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
BEHEADINGS
LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
Border and Leave Heads
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LA RAZA
DRUG CARTELS CUT OUT HEART OF LIVING MAN.
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NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS OCCUPY
TEXAS
MCALLEN, Texas --
The capture of three top Mexican drug cartel bosses on the U.S. side of the
Texas border helps to illustrate the irony of how even narco's seek refuge from
the violence in Mexico.
SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
“Heroin
is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the
United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security
because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need
to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
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