THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 167, August 22, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
MEXICO, BLOODY MEXICO
By Alan Caruba
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: FOCUS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION &
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS ON INVESTIGATING WHETHER STATE & LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST HISPANICS & ON BLOCKING ENFORCEMENT OF STATE LEGISLATION CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION -- PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION PROVIDING MASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS -- THE IMPACT
OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ON THE U.S. LABOR FORCE & THE COSTS OF AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, &
LAW ENFORCEMENT -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DOING VERY LITTLE TO COPE WITH THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
ENTERING THE U.S.A. FROM MEXICO -- OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATS MORE INTERESTED IN PROTECTING MEXICANS THAN
AMERICANS
FULL STORY:
It is increasingly obvious that the Obama administration is more interested in protecting Mexicans than Americans.
Case in point; Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has eleven suspects accused of murdering law enforcement officers in
his maximum security county jail in downtown Phoenix. As reported in the August 18, 2010, Washington Post,
“Justice Department officials in Washington, D.C., have issued a rare threat to sue (Arpaio) if he does not cooperate with
their investigation of whether he discriminates against Hispanics.”
“The standoff comes just weeks after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer because of the state’s
new immigration law,” the Post noted. The latest word from Americans for Legal Immigration is that twenty-two
states of the American federal union now have lawmakers developing versions of Arizona’s illegal immigration crackdown
bill SB 1070.
So nearly half of the fifty states of the Union are aligning themselves with Arizona. Why?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that, according to Mexican figures released recently, the toll of the drug wars
was said to be 28,000. It includes growing numbers of “civilian victims,” ranging from toddlers caught in the cross fire to
students massacred at parties. Mexico’s disintegration as a civil society is so severe that its government is considering
legalizing drugs to reduce the intercine battles between the cartels.
Little wonder that Mexicans are fleeing their war-torn nation to the safety of the United States of America. Earlier this
year, at least thirty residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, crossed
into the U.S.A. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities they fear for their lives. The Chief Deputy Sheriff of
Hudspeth County reported that a cartel had threatened to kill children in schools across the border unless the parents
paid 5,000 pesos.
Mexico has a slim hold on anything resembling a civil society, where the law enforcement authorities can stem the
violence or journalists can report it.
Support for building a Mexican border fence is up to 68% according to Rasmussen Reports in late July, 2010.
Other surveys indicate that 56% of American voters nationwide oppose the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to
challenge the Arizona law and 61% favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state.
Why would anyone consider vacationing in Mexico when, according to State Department figures, 79 U.S. citizens were
killed there in 2009, up from 35 in 2007. In Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, 23 Americans were
killed in 2009, compared with two in 2007. Earlier this year, in April, three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad
Juarez were ambushed and murdered. As many as half of the 2,660 killings in that city are attributed to paid assassins
from the Barrio Azteca gang.
The most widely reported murder was that of Robert Krentz on his southern Arizona ranch in March. An illegal alien is
the primary suspect in the killing. Meanwhile, La Raza (the “Race”), an immigration advocacy group in the U.S.A., is
supporting driver’s licenses and in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens. They are, of course, opposed to a secure
fence and cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
The worst of all this data is the further fact that Congress continues to progress toward “Comprehensive Immigration
Reform,” another way of saying mass amnesty for illegal aliens. In 2007, as a U.S. Senator, Obama voted to double
legal immigration from 1.2 million annually to 2.4 million.
The costs to the United States, already experiencing the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression, are
extraordinary. With millions of unemployed Americans, two new studies of the impact on the U.S. labor force revealed
that, of the jobs we’re told Americans won’t take, the majority of job-holders are in fact native-born. This includes
maids and housekeepers, taxi drivers, meat processors, grounds maintenance workers, construction laborers, porters,
bellhops and concierges, and janitors.
Beyond the labor market, U.S. taxpayers are spending $52 billion annually to educate the children of illegal aliens, with
local governments taking the biggest hit of nearly $50 billion.
The pressures on the U.S. healthcare system and on the law enforcement system are comparable, and the irony is that
the U.S. government has spent billions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of nation building, but is doing little
comparatively here at home to cope with the flood of illegal immigration.
Instead, the U.S. Department of Justice is doing whatever it can to punish states like Arizona for taking even the most
minimal steps to protect Americans. As for the Department of Homeland Security, its preference is to ignore the
problem. We are being ill-served by the Obama administration and are likely to be stabbed in the back by a lame-duck
Congress.
© Alan Caruba, 2010
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Latin America -- Economics, Politics, Political Regimes,
& Relations with the United States of America:
Problems & Opportunities for the U.S.A.
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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