Mexico As The 52nd State

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For several days now CNN’s Lou Dobbs has been covering the increased violence of the Mexican drug cartel’s killing of law enforcement officers in Mexico. Actually it has been longer than that, but the story has escalated lately. With Mexico’s President, Philip Calderon asking for bush’s help in closing their border and the Mexican law enforcement officers asking for USA asylum, and Mexico’s inability to deal with the drug cartel, is there any use for Mexico to remain independent if they can’t handle their own problems?

I’m only asking since it seems that Mexico is looking to the United States to fix its problems for them. That’s NOT our job and bush has no right pressuring Congress to do that. If Mexico is all that, how come no one wants to live there? If the USA is going to step in and fix Mexico for Mexicans, how about we just incorporate them? That way we’ll take care of all the illegal aliens at the same time. No need for amnesty issues, no need for name calling from the RAZA group and any other radical Hispanic groups, no need for all the issues to date. AND, Mexico has oil, so there goes the high cost of fuel…

We’ll take care of the sweat shops, the low wages there, (and our own because of the illegal problem), no more deportations, and the crime and drugs. Since Mexico can’t seem to fix itself and Mexican citizen are leaving in droves, how about we just make Mexico a state? I’m totally serious here. If this nation can’t do what a nation is supposed to do for itself and its people, and they are continually asking the USA for help, let’s help by making them the 52nd State of the Union…

This is a real solution. What we’ve been doing is NOT working. So let’s do something different. Not that Mexico’s President will like this solution in the least, he’d rather have us fill his pockets. But I’m tired of giving money, especially when it doesn’t seem to do what it is supposed to be do. And if we are going to be giving our hard earned money away let’s make it for a REAL SOLUTION!

Here is some Lou Dobbs coverage about Mexico:

DOBBS:Up next here, the State Department says it’s shocked by the escalating drug cartel violence in Mexico. Just exactly what does our State Department do? Casey Wian will have the latest for us on a war that Mexico is losing and one which may well spill into this country. Casey?

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, it’s almost now a daily occurrence in Mexico. Another top law enforcement official gunned down in a suspected drug cartel hit. We’ll have details coming up.

DOBBS: Thank you, Casey, looking forward to that.

DOBBS: Mexico’s raging drug wars are escalating. The second- ranking police officer in the border city of Juarez was gunned down Saturday and his boss, the police chief, then announced his resignation. The State Department, the U.S. State Department is renewing its call for Congress to release more than $1 billion in aid to Mexico to help it fight the drug cartels. Casey Wian has our report.

WIAN: A 50-shot fuselage killed Juan Antonio Roman, second in command of the Juarez police force Saturday. At least five senior Mexican law enforcement officers have been assassinated within a week. Roman’s name was number one on this suspected drug cartel hit list left at a Juarez police memorial in January.

Of the 12 names on the list, local news reports say eight are now dead, which explains why Juarez police chief Guillermo Preito reportedly resigned Sunday. The death toll from Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s year and a half long war on drug traffickers has soared past 3,000 and the cartels are also fighting each other. The son of the suspected head of the Sidaloa (ph) cartel was among those killed in a shootout Thursday, 500 shell casings found near his body.

PRES. FELIPE CALDERON, MEXICO (through translator): During my management there have been many soldiers, many marines, especially federal police who have lost their lives fighting to liberate the citizenry from crime.

WIAN: Mexican media reports say Calderon now travels with a military escort including a helicopter displaying a mounted machine gun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are shocked by the escalating violence against Mexican law enforcement officials. They illustrate the serious threat these organizations pose to democratic institutions in Mexico.

WIAN: The State Department repeated its call for Congress to quickly approve the Merida initiative, which would provide $1.4 billion in military aid over three years to help Mexico fight drug cartels. But five Congressmen wrote President Bush last week urging him to withdraw the military aid request for now arguing that until our southern land border is adequately secured there is little chance at reducing the amount of illegal drugs and contraband originating in Mexico.

WIAN: So far 2,500 Mexican federal troops have been unable to stop the violence in Juarez, the city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso has endured more than 200 drug-related killings so far this year. El Paso police say they’ve seen little evidence of the violence crossing the border into the United States, but if it does, the sheriff says they’re ready, Lou.

DOBBS: Well that’s very, very much a statement filled with bravado, but it doesn’t mean much since those illegal drug smugglers are moving somewhere between 25 and $45 billion worth of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and marijuana into the United States every year. Who do they think they’re kidding with those kind of remarkably just empty statements?

WIAN: Well, its clearly a crisis what’s going on just across the border from them in Mexico, all along the border with the United States and no one in the federal government seems to be in too much of a hurry to get aid approved for Mexico to help them fight the drug cartels or to get the border secured in a way that would stop the drugs from flowing across it, Lou.

DOBBS: This administration is absolutely responsible for the deaths, literally, of hundreds of thousands of lives either lost or destroyed by illegal drugs moving into this country. This administration’s insistence on leaving that border insecure and to permit the level of drug traffic and human smuggling across that border, I mean it is truly a crime for which this administration should be held responsible, so should this Democratic leadership of this Congress. This is inexcusable what they’re doing. How are the agents reacting? How are law enforcement agents reacting? Their hands are basically tied here as this blood bath is simply widening in Mexico and drugs continue to pour across our border along with illegal aliens and who knows who else.

WIAN: You know the local law enforcement has been saying for a couple of years, at least now, that their hands are basically tied. All they can do is hope that the federal government gets serious about helping to secure the border and they’re just hoping and praying that more of this violence doesn’t spill across it, Lou.

DOBBS: Now, if that money were cut off at the border in through our ports, as well, for the drug cartels, there might be quite a different reaction in Mexico and perhaps it would be more valuable than simply a billion four that the Merida legislation would provide. Casey, thank you very much, Casey Wian, reporting.

Federal agents arrested more than 300 illegal aliens today in a raid at a meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency says Agriprocessors Inc. employed illegal aliens from Mexico, Guatemala and Eastern Europe. Agents released 44 illegal aliens to care for their children.

They were ordered to report to court at a later date. The illegal aliens are charged with immigration violations of course, but we have absolutely no word tonight of what the company is charged with, so we will try to update you on that as soon as sanctions or charges are provided, if, indeed, they are.

Now, I see no reason for the USA to give money to Mexico so that they can fight the drug cartels. Why should we give them money to fight their drug wars? Who will account for the money? And, once we give the money away, there is no accounting for it. Will it be used to hire yet more law enforcement? Why?  So they can just quit or beg for asylum too?  And WHY does Mexico need to get money from the USA for this in the first place??? As far as I am aware, the Mexican government has been sitting very fat of its people for as long as its history goes back. So getting money from us is NOT what will help them.

Nope, seems to me like they need the USA for man power all right, but if so, let’s just make Mexico a state. That way no more deportations, we’ll handle the drug cartels, the drugs, the sweat shops and low wages… And we’ll manage the money better. Works for me.

Then last night, came this article from Lou Dobbs on Mexico and their problems:

DOBBS:The raging violence from Mexico’s drug wars escalating into this country across our southern border, Mexico’s police seem powerless to stop the violence. And now, three Mexican police chiefs in fear of their lives have requested political asylum in the United States. Those chief of police made those requests over the past few months, a top Homeland Security official telling The Associated Press that they had requested asylum and that it’s being under — it’s being reviewed now.

Those officials not identified, of course. And six police officials in Mexico over the course of the past month have been assassinated, including the head of the Mexican Federal Police.

So I just had to find this story since that was all the coverage from Lou Dobbs. What I found was this story here:

In the past few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing for their lives, said Jayson P. Ahern, the deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

“They’re basically abandoned by their police officers or police departments in many cases,” Mr. Ahern told AP.

Mr. Ahern said the Mexican officials, whom he didn’t name, are being interviewed and their cases are under review for possible asylum.

In the most recent high-level assassination, a top-ranking official on a local Mexican police force was shot more than 50 times. Drug-related violence killed more than 2,500 people last year in Mexico.

“It’s almost like a military fight,” Mr. Ahern said Tuesday. “I don’t think that generally the American public has any sense of the level of violence that occurs on the border.”

As the cartels fight for territory, this carnage spills over to the U.S., Mr. Ahern said, from bullet-ridden people stumbling into U.S. territory to rounds of ammunition coming across U.S. entry ports.

So, I believe it would be best for all of us if we simply incorporated Mexico. That would end their problems with having to deal with the drug cartels and ours with illegal aliens and those who either hire or rent to them, want to give them drivers licenses, or be a sanctuary city, and the crossing of the border issues. We can stop building that albatross of a fence that so divides the people down there and has the environmentalists all up in arms, even though the damage being done to the environment by the illegals themselves seems to FAR OUTWEIGH any issues on the fence side of things, but hey that’s not my call. I’m offering a solution that should fix ALL problems from ALL sides.

Don’t like it? Come up with a better one. So far all the ones I’ve seen just aren’t working.

~ by justmytruth on May 15, 2008.