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Date Posted: 01:26:44 05/28/10 Fri
Author: JMcEnaney
Author Host/IP: 12.90.38.90
Subject: Re: How to solve Illegal Immigration
In reply to: arthur 's message, "Re: How to solve Illegal Immigration" on 19:27:53 05/27/10 Thu

Arthur’s comments are dead on.

I work for a small mining company and spend a fair amount of time along the southern Texas/New Mexico/Arizona borders. It's pretty remote, breathtakingly beautiful, and can get pretty scary pretty quickly. All that border violence that makes for the occasional "where's the outrage" piece in the New York Times has spread into the US and the locals have a legitimate reason to be afraid. The bad guys have taken over the hills and wandering off the pavement is not a good idea.

Juarez has become the murder capital of the world. In 2009, there were 2,660 murders in Ciudad Juarez alone, a city with a population of 1.5 million. For the same period, there were 2,412 civilian deaths and 520 military deaths in Afghanistan, a country of 29 million. And for what it's worth, Juarez is on track to exceed its 2009 numbers this year. Ambulances carrying gunshot victims from Juarez seeking treatment at El Paso hospitals are now refused entry because the shooters follow them and finish off their targets inside the El Paso hospitals. What used to be nice little towns in Mexico along the border like Las Palomas and Agua Prieta have turned into shooting galleries. At night in Douglas, AZ, you can hear gunshots just across the border in Agua Prieta. I work with people who still have families in Mexico and they won't even venture back for visits.

And yeah, the debris that now litters the beautiful desert is vast and disgusting and it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out where it came from. (But maybe if we just handed out Hefty bags at the border crossings, our guests would tidy up after themselves.)

You can’t drive fifty miles around here before you have to pull over and go through a Border Patrol check point. ICE is all over the place. They sky is dotted with observation balloons. I’ve had an ICE patrol helicopter come so low at one of our mines we all had to hunker down and it still blew the hard hat off one of the guys.

Somehow people have this notion the AZ law is about white people and ethnic purity. Hell, the entire Southwest was once Spanish and the Spanish ethnicity and cultural influence here remains profound, rich and ubiquitous. Arthur notes correctly that most of the people doing the enforcing out here, whether they be ICE, Federal, State or Local are themselves of Mexican heritage. If the cops adopted racial profiling, they’d be pulling over their own families.

And please, Undecided, stop with the moral relevancy…I understand some among us do find the US so oppressive that our pseudo-intellectual angst boils over and causes us to lash out and spell America with (gasp) a “K”. When that happens, you may need to get away for awhile. If you do, try emigrating to Mexico and vaya con Dios. But you might just want to check up on Mexican immigration law before you go. It’s law I’d like to see adopted here. By the way I loved the overwrought piece from that mixed-race capital of the world, Sweden, whose illegal immigration population is estimated between 60-100,000 out of a population of 9 million or less than 1% of their population (compared to the US where 12 million out of 309 million, or close to 4%, are here illegally). It cited, breathlessly, the progressiveness of Belgium which addressed its illegal immigration problems by giving amnesty to 25,000 illegal immigrants. Back in 1986, the US granted amnesty to about 2 million illegal immigrants. That really fixed the problem and earned us the moral high ground now didn’t it.

But my favorite dramatic moment took place here recently when El Presidente Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa came to our country and sternly, and with straight face, told us the Arizona law is discriminatory. That’s like getting a human rights lecture from Idi Amin. The cojones on this guy. And we fall all over ourselves begging for forgiveness and give him a standing ovation in the Senate. Circle the morons in that picture. How about telling that criminal to clean up his own country? Oh that’s right: the problems in Mexico are our fault.

This whole festering problem problem has been swept under the rug by the Federal Government for some time now by both Democrat and Republican administrations and it is because loathsome politicians (I know that's redundant) crassly covet the growing Hispanic voting bloc. It’s left the southwest states swinging in the wind, on their own. The influx of illegal immigrants is simply not sustainable, particularly when they’re not paying taxes and repatriating their earnings back to Mexico. Add to that the plume of violence and disease (see * below) that has spread across the border and at some point you say it might be time to start managing the issue. Arizona has done just that.

(*According to a CDC report: “Analysis of data from the U.S. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System for 1990 through 1998 showed increased risks for certain foodborne, waterborne, and vaccine-preventable diseases in U.S. counties within 100 kilometers of the border, compared with nonborder states. These data show a two- to fourfold greater incidence of hepatitis A, measles, rubella, shigellosis, and rabies and an eightfold greater incidence of brucellosis in border counties than in nonborder states.”
See the full report at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no1/pdfs/02-0047.pdf )

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