Posted on 06/26/2013 9:47:03 AM PDT by jazusamo
The U.S. proposal to secure the southern border has caused outrage in Mexico, with one renowned Mexican academic claiming in Spanish-language media that deploying more federal agents to the region is tantamount to an increase in “human rights violations.”
Under the immigration reform bill floating around in the U.S. Senate the number of Border Patrol agents will double along the southern border and the amount of drones guarding from above will triple. The measure will also provide funding to complete 700 miles of fencing in the area and around-the-clock surveillance flights by drones.
This has ignited fury in Mexico where officials flooded Spanish-language media to express outrage this week and now some of it is getting picked up by news outlets north of the border. Mexico’s former foreign minister, Jorge Castañeda, says doubling the number of agents along the border is an “unfriendly act” and a “very negative reform for Mexico and the United States.”
Some have taken it further, asserting in a mainstream American newspaper story that the surge plan is an affront to Mexico that should be forcefully opposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto. One Mexican congressman (Fernando Belaunzaran) said “we are ‘friends and neighbors,’ as is repeated ad nauseam, but the U.S. is about to militarize the border with Mexico as if we were at war.”
A respected Mexican columnist and academic, Lorenzo Meyer, took to the airwaves suggesting that Mexico retaliate by booting U.S. intelligence and defense officials in the country collaborating in the never-ending battle against drug cartels. The same highly regarded Mexican figurehead also suggested Mexico could strike back by rejecting more American retirees. The head of a Mexico-based organization called Aztlan Binational Migrants Movement, said an increase in Border Patrol agents will put lives at risk because migrants will be forced to find more dangerous and remote crossings.
The fact remains, however, that the southern border has long been dangerously porous and it’s not just humble migrants seeking work and a better life that exploit this national security weakness. A number of reports have surfaced over the years documenting how serious criminal elements, including drug cartels and Middle Eastern terrorists, regularly use the Southwest border to enter the United States.
A few years ago an investigative committee of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disclosed that the Mexican border region is infested with violent crimes carried out by organized syndicates that smuggle drugs, humans, weapons and money across the U.S.-Mexico border on a daily basis. Even more alarming, the assessment revealed that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation found that members of Hezbollah and other deadly Middle Eastern terrorist groups have entered the U.S. through the Mexican border.
As if this weren’t reason enough to secure the border, other probes have revealed similar problems. In 2007 Texas’s top Homeland Security official, Steve McCraw, confirmed that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida had been arrested crossing into the state through Mexico. That news came on the heels of a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) report that laid out how Islamic terrorists and violent Mexican drug gangs have teamed up to successfully penetrate the U.S. as well as finance terror networks in the Middle East.
The problem has only worsened over the years, according to the government’s own assessments. In 2010 DHS warned Texas law enforcement agencies that a renowned Al Qaeda terrorist was planning to sneak into the U.S. through Mexico. In the alert DHS warn Houston authorities to be on the lookout for a member of a Somalia-based Al Qaeda group called Al Shabab who was planning to cross the Mexican border.
That same year a veteran federal agent accused the government of covering up the growing threat created by Middle Eastern terrorists entering the country through the porous Mexican border. The agent, who spent 30 years in the federal immigration system, revealed that the U.S. Border Patrol had captured thousands of people classified as OTM (Other Than Mexican) along the 2,000-mile southern border and many were from terrorist nations like Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan. The feds call them SIAs (Special Interest Aliens) and the government doesn’t want Americans to know about them.
- See more at: http://www.judicialwatch.org./blog/2013/06/mexico-securing-border-violates-human-rights/#sthash.lkv1tLaf.dpuf
This is just more Bravo Sierra from the progressive left and La Raza adherants who want to overrun this country and fundamentally change it for their own ends...just as their ally, Obama, wants done.
Well, a Storm is coming...and it's going to blow real hard.
Well, Jorge, you and your ilk are going to have to relearn a lesson or two. The same ones that were taught the King of England, and your fellow, Sant aAnna. There are some things, for the sake of the our country, and our liberty, and the future generations that are worth standing up for, and worth fighting for whatever the cost.
Your edging closer and closer to having to being schooled once again in that lesson.
As it is, these legislative "ACTS,", and SCOTUS rulings are just edging us further and further down a path that will ultimately lead to that school house where patriotic, Constitutional, God-fearing, and loyal American citizenry take the same path our founders took.
And guess what, Jorge? When we ultimately do, we will and be supported in that effort by the same Hand of the same Almighty Creator who supported our forefathers through their travail.
God grant we as a people are up to the task when the time comes (and I believe it will be sooner rather than later now), and that (as it states in II Chrom 7:14) we will turn to Him, repent, and humble ourselves so that He can heal our land.
You know I think that we are looking at this the wrong way, if things continue as they are it won’t be too long before Mexico starts looking better than the US as far as quality of life, freedom and economic opportunity are concerned. Given that maybe we should push for a sharing agreement, we take your illegals and you take our white flight. It could work, especially since that would get us away from the Obamacare taxes, maybe open up a polish Taquería with some polka music (I mean most Mariachi bands have an accordion player so wouldn’t be too much of a change for him) and just enjoy life.
Really. Then why is Mexico defending it’s southern border...
There’s no other county on the planet with as insane of an immigration policy that we have.
“Yep, if we adopted the same immigration laws that Mexico has they’d be having fits.”
Yeah but that’s different. Mexico is a sovereign country and the U.S. has no damn business telling them how to run their country. /s
Amen to that!
Sure why not.
Then I am for violating their non-citizen rights on a grand scale.
El Salvadorian crossing the border: "Senior, I am passing trough Meheco on my way to Gringoland to the north".
Mexican Border Guard: "Have a nice trip, Amigo!"
FU-Mexico
Why not change our approach and stop arguing the points already made about our own borders and begin to agitate, demonstrate and demand OUR rights to live in Mexico and Canada as legal citizens with rights and benefits and voting privileges. Invade them back.
“Class. Claaaass! OK. What do you get when you reward bad behavior?”
Sister Mary Elephant
Little Johnny: “Lectures from your enemies?”
“Hey!” Nobama
yeah, what does Guatemala have to say about Mexican border security?
Never! You break it, you buy it, as we did in Iraq. If we wage war with Mexico American taxpayers will end up supporting the whole damned country (and those who can get there from countries to the south) instead of just the illegals who are here.
By J. Michael Waller
Mexico has a radical idea for a rational immigration policy that most Americans would love. However, Mexican officials haven’t been sharing that idea with us as they press for our Congress to adopt the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill.
That’s too bad, because Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States does, has much to teach us about how it handles the immigration issue. Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
At a time when the Supreme Court and many politicians seek to bring American law in line with foreign legal norms, it’s noteworthy that nobody has argued that the US look at how Mexico deals with immigration and what it might teach us about how best to solve our illegal immigration problem.
Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
• in the country legally;
• have the means to sustain themselves economically;
• not destined to be burdens on society;
• of economic and social benefit to society;
• of good character and have no criminal records; and
• contributors to the general well-being of the nation.
The Mexican law also ensures that:
• immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
• foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
• foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
• foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
• foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
• those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.
Bump!
As I understand it, the pro-bill people are saying that this amnesty bill is so good that it will be a long, long time before we will need another one. How funny is that?
If the pro-bill people are right, then the punishment for violating this wonderful bill must be severe for those who violate it over the next, long years if the bill is to be taken seriously.
FELONY: Will it now be a FELONY if a person enters the country illegally? For a crime to be considered a FELONY is very serious indeed.
FELONY: Will it now be a FELONY if a person deliberately overstays his student visa and tries to hide somewhere?
If the two violations above of the law will not be considered FELONIES under the new amnesty law, it tells me that the writers of the amnesty bill are not really serious about illegal immigration control, because it is obvious that they expect a new push for a new amnesty law in a few years.
To me, if illegal border crossings and abuse of student visas are not now considered FELONIES under the new amnesty bill, then such a bill is not worth the paper it is written on.
Brothers and sisters... When will this madness end???
It will end when the good Lord comes back in all His Glory because for sure it seems the American people, save for the few outspokenly brave and willing (Like Jeff Head), have lost their backbone.
Which is why Mexico has secured its southern border.
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