South of the Border

The situation in Mexico is getting more dismal with every passing day. CIA director Porter Gross recently placed Mexico in the same political venue’ as Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Mexico like America suffers a severe leadership vacuum. Unlike America it lacks the stable republican background and is as a result floundering politically. El Presedente Vincente Fox and his leftist PAN party promised the world to the Mexican people and delivered nothing. Fox has been president for five years and in all that time has accomplished nothing with the exception of convincing Jorge Bush the Lesser to play second fiddle to Mexico and its sustained people export policy. The fact of the matter is that if the safety valve of illegal immigration to the US were not available Mexico would be in revolution now.

About twelve percent of the Mexican population now lives in America, most of these illegally. About 8.7 million of them. They in turn send much of the money they earn here back to their kin in Mexico that was between $18 and $22 billion in 2004. Without that money the Mexican economy would have collapsed. Most of these Mexican have settled in the Southern states that may well be the reason for the government’s refusal to protect our borders. In order to take pressure off the Mexican economy and political system the Fox government encourages all Mexicans to sneak across the border. This has reached to point where the Mexican government has produced 37 page comic books on the best way to cross and not get caught.

The US border patrol which was funded in this year to have 2000 more agents trained and deployed has instead increased the total number of agents by 210. In fact America has more troops stationed in any one of 40 nations than it has on the Mexican border. Population wise about 12% of the total Mexican voting population now lives in America, these account for 50% of Mexico’s purchasing power.

One reason for this massive population shift is cheap labor. Jorge’s plutocrat buddies want lots of cheap labor for their American plants, and we all know that illegal immigrants do not even get minimum wage, or social security or workman’s compensation, or pensions, or vacations or coffee breaks. This is one of the prime reasons that blue-collar wages in the Southern States are not keeping up with inflation. One might well call these acts as the 21^st century New Re-Construction of the South. An examination of federal government policies over the last decade, or since the enactment of NAFTA is certainly revealing, particularly as it applies the Southern States.

Before this massive migration of Mexican’s and NAFTA, ten years ago America had a trade surplus with Mexico of $5.7 billion annually. This has in the ten-year time span changed to a $50 billion annual deficit. This however is only reported by USDC statistics, which are totally bogus. To bring this trade imbalance into perspective let us add together all the real numbers.

1) Loss of surplus	$5.7 Billion
2) New Annual deficit	$50 billion
3) Funds repatriated to Mexico	$18 Billion
4) The Maquiladoro deal ⁽¹⁾	$8 billion
Total losses to the American economy $81.7 Billions per year.

Naturally the greatest impact of these acts and policies are felt in Southern States and most acutely by those bordering Mexico. This unequal distribution of the weight of these policies is severely impacting many Southern States. Naturally the USDC and NAFTA do not report on any such information. Per example there is a provision in NAFTA, which requires the government to produce an annual report of the effect, that NAFTA has had on the national economy, and manufacturing in particular. The last report was published during the Clinton administration in 1996, it pointed to the loss of 2500 manufacturing plants, which had either gone out of business or moved to Mexico. When the Clinton administration saw the report they collected all the copies and shredded them, no report as required in the agreement has been issued since by Republican or Democrat administrations.

The outrageous policies of these trade agreements have also been felt in Mexico, where entire villages have seen all the male population in America and the villages are left with only women and children.

Why do we call NAFTA an agreement rather than a treaty, which it is in application? NAFTA was illegally enacted on two grounds, first it was enacted by executive order and illegal act⁽²⁾, and second it was never ratified by the states. The American Steel workers brought this to the federal court in Birmingham AL, but the court turned it down, they then went to the Supreme Court who refused to rule on it (Hot Potato issue) claiming that it was a legislative mater. Obviously the justices either cannot read or remember their oath of office.

The health crisis in bordering states has reached pandemic magnitude; in California over 20 hospitals have closed their doors due to pending bankruptcy caused by the legal requirement that they cannot turn anyone away. Just you try that in Mexico! Your author lived in Mexico for two years and can tell you that unless you have dinero you will bleed to death before anyone helps you. Aside from that is the incidence of maladies, which were wiped out in the civilized world decades ago, and are making an active comeback here, TB, leprosy, and even polio.

To make matters worse the U.S. Department of Justice has identified 34,000 illegal immigrants who have been convicted of felonies and have requested that the Department of Homeland Security deport them immediately to from whence they came. Homeland Security ever active in prosecuting American citizens for minor law infractions has stated that they are unable to find any of these felons. Our diabolical legal system has made it illegal for different agencies to report the discovery of an illegal to enforcement arms of the government. Thereby voiding the possibility of capture or deportation of all illegals.

This then brings us to how illegals operate and why they are able to keep coming back.If you are a Mexican living in per example in LA you can go to the Mexican consulate and on simply your word obtain a copy of your birth certificate and a Mexican ID both of which will reflect whatever you told them. Thus illegals obtain a number of ID’s all with false American addresses and different names. When driving a car (without drivers license) and are stopped by an officer they produce their ID, the officer knows that it is a total waste of time to give a ticket, as all the information on the ID is bogus, so he lets the illegal go. Living in Florida we had an illegal driving a truck for a contractor run over and kill a lady, he simply jumped out of the truck and disappeared, was never caught and is in all probability now driving a truck in your town.

We should actively oppose this procedure that are the hallmark of both Republican and Democrat policy. We should actively report illegals to authorities in if they refuse to do their duty peruse the matter through the courts and media. We should be active to force the department of labor to fine employers who knowingly hire illegals. If we do not do this Southern heritage and way of life are in jeopardy.

(1)Maquiladoro is an agreement to allow Mexicans to assemble American made (50%) products and re-imports them duty free and without trade consequence. That in effect means that an American producer can make half of a product purchase the other half through a Mexican affiliate and then import it back to America assembled in Mexico without duty and labeled it Made in America.