Another Day on the Mexican Border

4 May 2003 | Me

[FITZ]

That we as Americans have to be armed to drive along our southern border.

It wasn't that way not too long ago but you don't want to be near some of those border entry places ---there are some pretty bad people coming over --not all and often the illegals are victimized too.

[ckilmer]

there is another option.

Make the Mexicans rich.

That's possible now. read the posts on water desalination.

the costs of that are coming down fast. in ten years or so the cost of desalinised water will be about the same as water along the eastern seaboard of the USA.

Much of mexico is desert beside seawater. In a generation they will start to turn the the land of mexico green everywhere that's 50 miles from the coast. In two generations the cheap water will push much farther inland.

[FrogMom]

Much of mexico is desert beside seawater. In a generation they will start to turn the the land of mexico green everywhere that's 50 miles from the coast. In two generations the cheap water will push much farther inland.

Yeah, then they can grow the drugs closer to the border for easier delivery.

[Mamzelle]

Making the salty sweet is a great dream, but nothing can make Mexico rich. It already has many more resources than most developing countries--water will just make their problems wet. Imagine Japan with so many minerals, etc.! Mexico's problems have to do with being Mexico.

[zeugma]

The main problem with your suggestion is that mexico is basically a kleptocracy. It will never be anything but yet another third-world hell-hole until that changes.

It's a shame, as mexicans, by and large, are hard working and industrious folk. However, they will put up with much more corruption than is good for them.

As far as the solutions noted above, I vote for the wall, razor wire, armed guard towers and 100ft no-mans-land. We also need to stop allowing them free health care so they'll stop bleeding the hospitals on the border dry.

[ImpotentRage]

I've posted before that I think a moat should be dug the length of the border, a fence installed in the middle of it, the moat filled with water and the fence electrified. Illegals are bankrupting us (Yeah, yeah, I know - they are SO hardworking.) and I think Americans would be stunned to know the TRUE total of illegals in this country. Something HAS to be done to stop this flood.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Guess I was using Glock in a generic sense. She could have been carrying a flintlock pistol for all I know. Believe me, I was not staring at her belt.

[PuNcH]

We have chosen to have a welfare state and this is one of the costs. We have few choices but the best are to (1) End the welfare state and (2) Have a robust guest worker policy. They will still come but at least we can make order out of the chaos and have some controls.

We started having this problem when we stopped enforcing our laws and started handing out amnesties. So while I would like to change our welfare state we can still get a control of our border. Cheap labor may be good for some but it isnt good for America.

[Marine Inspector]

Believe me, I was not staring at her belt.

LOL, that I can believe.

BTW, it's a Beretta 96D .40.

[MARTIAL MONK]

a moat should be dug the length of the border

That might work except that most of the water we have out here tends to run downhill.

[MARTIAL MONK]

That we as Americans have to be armed to drive along our southern border

The border has always been a rough place. Back in the 60s and 70s the papers in Nogales, El Paso and Tijuana would run chronicles of the weekend shootings and stabbings every Monday morning. And those were the tame years. I can show you a few knife scars myself.

The violence has probably intensified today but the stakes are higher and there are many more people. The world in general is a much coarser place. North or south of the border we always carried a gun even if we had to root around in the toolbox to find it and dig under the seats to locate a bullet or two.

[4Freedom]

Another great report, JB. Please keep me on your 'Ping' list.

[janetgreen]

We have many friends in Arizona who have given up hiking in certain areas because of fear of the illegal alien traffic. They describe the same destruction of the land that is ignored by the politicians of the state.

Thanks for keeping the people on FR up to date on this outrage. When will George Bush step up to the plate and face this invasion of America? He won't get my vote again, not that he cares, he thinks that he'll get all the hispanic vote to make up for all of us that he has lost.

[FITZ]

Crime is much much higher in Ciudad Juarez and around Anapra than it was a decade ago. Anyone living in Juarez would tell you that. Thirty years ago it was mostly just a sleepy border town ---a little wilder than some but nothing like it's become.

[FITZ]

The criminals of Mexico don't just stay on the border either ----much of what comes over the border to the US cities are criminals. People who happen to live along the border (hispanic and non-hispanic) shouldn't have to be victims of crimes ---it's absurd how these guys are using an international border to commit their crimes and then escape back into the safety of Mexico.

LAPD's most Wanted http://www.lapdonline.org/get_involved/most_wanted/0alpha_most_wanted/a_wanted_index.htm

[Missouri]

Thanks for the border update.

This border situation should be the #1 priority of our federal government. Yet only a few politicians dare say anything about it (Tancredo, Folley, Graves).

This is an invasion, pure and simple.

[Victoria Delsoul]

On a lighter note, I think I saw the most beautiful woman in this country Saturday. She is a sultry brunette with big dark eyes - you could lose your heart and soul in them - and most likely of Hispanic origin. If I were ten years younger (okay, twenty) I would be crawling naked on my belly through cactus begging for a date.

Well, the Border wasn't that bad after all. :-)

[JackelopeBreeder]

No doubt about it, latinas and filipinas will be the death of me yet. I hope.

I have a female Mexican-American co-worker I've known since college -- over 30 years now. Back then we called her "The Aztec Goddess". She can still make me roll over, play dead, fetch sticks...

Have you ever noticed that there are no latina jokes? The Aztec Goddess herself once explained to me that throughout history any male ever attempting to invent one had died horribly. I asked if that taboo extended to latinas who had dyed their hair blonde.

The bruises only lasted a couple of weeks.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL!!!

[hot august night]

Please keep me on your ping list, in the event you are keeping a separate list from Madfly. I enjoy reading all your posts. I can't even begin to think about how you can manage to sleep at night when you have to be in the midst of all this corruption and U.S. gov't. duplicity every day and first-hand. Just reading about it from where I am in the Northeast enrages me to no end.

Thank you for all your efforts and sacrifices in "trying" to make our deteriorating country a livable place. I salute you and honor you for all your work. May God keep you safe and sound. (and keep packing...)