From the AP:
Mexico says its arrested four Iraqis who were trying to sneak into the United States without the proper documents.
Mexico’s Attorney General’s office says police—acting on an anonymous tip—found the four aboard a bus in the northern city of Navajoa (nav-ah-HO-. That’s about 375 miles south of the Arizona border).The statement says the Iraqis were in Mexico illegally.
Officials are investigating the background of the four and trying to determine how they got into Mexico.
Many undocumented Iraqi nationals have been captured in Mexican territory en route to the U-S border. None have been found to have had any links to terrorism.
No suggestion that these four Iraqis were in any way involved in terrorist-related activities against the US—but it does, again, raise the complicated profile of national security concerns pertaining to our border issues, with foreign nationals—and not just noble Steinbeckian migrant workers hoping ot eke out a meager living picking the melons of greedy, government-subsidized corporate US farming conglomerates for $0.30 a day—looking to gain entry into the country, for whatever their purposes, illegally and in a way that keeps their status undocumented.
See previous.
OK – I have reached my limit. Finally. Mr. President, we NEED TO DO SOMETHING, NOW!
Cripes, I am making no more excuses or proffering any defenses for this anymore.
Gah.
Looks like these guys didn’t bribe the right burócratas
Turing = blood, as in….well, you can easily guess…
The obviously gallows hilarity to ensue would no doubt involve the idea of just what documents the Mexican government would consider “proper” for someone trying to sneak into the US. Perhaps a personally autographed Vincente Fox map of San Diego with the yellow pages for “landscaper” on the obverse? Just asking.
“Put” this in the file under “transparent attempt to make us think you’re qualified to secure the border because you care about US.”
– I’m a bit surprised with this event. The Mexicans must have made great strides in the area of security in the last week….Last time I checked they were trying to devise away to determine how Mexicans themselves got into Mexico, since they thought they were all in or headed to LA….
RACISTS!
Now let me get this straight – the Mexican government, who collectively strips a turbine every time an illegal (but entirely innocent and hardoworking) bracero is hauled down at the border and tossed back over the fence, who put out pamphlets describing how to achieve illegal entry into Los Estados Unidos, and whose army is now actively supporting drug smuggling down at TJ and at Ciudad Juarez, is now holding Iraqis on the basis of enforcing some sort of illegal entry INTO MEXICO?!?
W. T. F.
We can’t build that fence fast enough.
Perhaps another alternative is to require land transit to Mexico through only one or two locations (preferably the more God-forsaken ones like El Centro or Douglas) and close the big-city crossings at Tijuana, Juarez and Matamoros.
Well, they can’t have been coming here for work… they’d make the worst pool boys in Beverly Hills Porn history:
“Infidel Harlot! Put some clothes on!”
Boys and girls, it ain’t that simple. Either way.
We’re accustomed to having the rule of law extend right up to the borders, if not beyond. Get attacked while skinny-dipping in Big Bend National Park, and if you call the Rangers they’re very liable to show up. Mexico has no such institution.
The oligarchs and patróns get their money by grabbing it at the origin, stifling efforts at effective entrepreurship at any level above a street-vendor in the process. They know this and want out, but don’t know how to break the cycle, and they’re terrified of Chavezes. They know that if they relax their grip even for a moment the Communists are waiting in the wings.
The stifled middle class looks desperately for ways to just get along, and for the lower class and lower-middle class the best way to do that is to go to work in the U.S. and get money that can be banked and used to live on. The oligarchs encourage that as a safety valve. As long as José-in-the-street thinks he can get modest wealth at the expense of a wet shirt, he won’t be listening to the Partidad Revolucion Democratica.
This tactic depends desperately upon the porosity of the border. Poor Mexicans who leave to clean pools in Beverly Hills aren’t carrying red flags and shooting politicians. George Bush knows that, and prefers the disruptions attendant on accommodating illegal immigration to those of having a Fidelista government right across the Rio Grande; and, to the extent the central Government of Mexico is able to make at least the pretense of playing the true game they will do so, trying to maintain the status quo. I agree. At five percent unemployment we can afford to take the pressure in preference to the alternatives.
The third party there is the drug dealers and traders, who have come to an accommodation with the coyotes who serve as free-enterprise immigration agents. They have so much money, and so much to lose, that they are rapidly becoming little governments themselves. It’s they who are orchestrating the cross-border incursions, not the central Government, who would stop them if they could. They can’t. They desperately want to, because they fear the Fence more than you can possibly imagine and don’t want to give us any excuses to build it. But their writ doesn’t extend that far from Mexico City, and their power evaporates entirely within twenty kilometers of the border except in a few enclaves around the major cross-border cities.
It doesn’t surprise me in the least that the central Government of Mexico would apprehend people they thought were terrorists on their way to the U.S. They wish desperately to be seen as trustworthy enough that we will allow the border to remain open and their safety valve to work freely. It’s the druggies, who are on their way to being the shadow Governments of all of Central and northern South America, who are causing the real problem.
A fence will just make it worse. Mexico is Second World at worst from a technological point of view, possibly first-and-a-half. There are many, many Mexicans who are quite knowledgeable, even sophisticated, in the use of tunneling machines and blasting explosive. Yeah, there are still guys in Zacatecas and Coahuila sleeping in the sun under big hats, with a donkey nearby. There are also computer programmers and technicians every bit as good as you’ll find here. Stupid little brown people they are not, and they’re under unbelievable pressure. Straightforward isolationism is not going to solve the problem.
Regards,
Ric
How can it be worse than simply walking over the border? You don’t have to ransack Al Gore’s World Wide Web or spend 7 years in border crossing college to get the wherewithal to just skip over it.
Anything goes is NOT a valid response. A fence is a start. I would be happy to treble the number of legal immigrants to America, but “stupid, brown people” from the Pampas to the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka also want to make America home. They should have that opportunity at least as much as the Mexicans.
Nor does it excite my imagination to think that the US is subsidizing the Mexican government’s indefatiguable corruption.
my daughter had an idea- pull the troops from Iraq- then invade and annex Mexico voila no more security problems no mre illegal aliens and the Mexicans would most likely welcome us with flowers .
Just think we could call it South Texas
Hey. They’re only coming here for a better afterlife.
Much of Northern Mexico WAS part of Texas; well, technically ‘Texas and Coahuila’ until that darned Sam Houston messed it all up.
Seriously; the best way to minimize illegal immigration from Mexico is to issue LEGAL work permits to all who pass a background check and have a job waiting for them; while cutting off ALL government services from illegals and jailing or heavily fining US nationals who hire illegals.
That way, Mexico has its safety valve, Hollywood has its pool boys, maids and cooks; and California doesn’t go bankrupt feeding, medicating and educating illegals.
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