Fasting to Fatten Their Own Immigration Reform Pockets

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/rahm-emanuel-immigration_n_4434251.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

Fasting to Fatten Their Own Immigration Reform Pockets

These political profiteers will fast for immigration reform yet they will say or do absolutely nothing about their own US elite's economic policies (NAFTA) that have caused people in Mexico to starve and come to the US illegally?

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/12/fasting-to-fatten-their-own-immigration.html
 

Their Comprehensive Immigration Reform S.744 Rewards Everyone Except The US Taxpayers Who Pay The Price

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/joe-biden-immigration_n_4428335.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

Their Comprehensive Immigration Reform S.744 Rewards Everyone Except The US Taxpayers Who Pay The Price

It is obvious to me that all of the groups pushing for immigration reform have their own self-serving, reform motives.  I find those motives insidious in the sense that none of them pertain to the actual cause of the illegal immigration that spawns the need to reform.    

Because Washington's comprehensive immigration reform does not address or attempt fix the cause of illegal immigration (the undocumenteds' home-country poverty) the problem will again remain unfixed as it did with Reagan's Amnesty, Clinton's NAFTA, and Bush's DHS.  US taxpayers will continue to suffer the costs and consequences of continued illegal immigration.   

What Comprehensive Immigration Reformists Want:

The majority of  Washington reform politicians want some of the Senate's initial S.744 Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act's $46,300,000,000 for their crony border security corporations.  Scroll down to the costs that are buried in Section 6.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744/text

The Mark Zuckerberg's of the crowd want more H-1b high tech visas to profit off of foreign laborers.

The Chamber of Commerce and AFL/CIO want to legalize undocumented laborers and bring in more undocumented dues payers.

The two main US political parties want to sway the Latino vote.

The 11.2 million undocumented want to become legal US residents or citizens.

The Mexican elite want to continue to have a safety value for their citizens and poor while keeping the billions in remittances flowing back home.

Of course reform propagandists will spin statistics to show how American will be financially better off by passing reform.

Nonsense!  Tell that to the long-time residents of San Jacinto, CA who for decades now have had to wait in overcrowded hospital emergency rooms to be treated.  Tell them how their kids and grand kids will no longer suffer inferior public education because over one half of all classes are filled with the kids of the non-English speaking undocumented.  Tell that to the US taxpayers who lose jobs because the undocumented work under the table or simply underbid them.  Tell them how reform will bring their property values up to what they would be without the unprecedented NAFTA influx of millions of undocumented to Southern California.  Tell them why they should believe that this reform is any different than the lies of Reagan's Amnesty or Clinton's NAFTA which both promised to end illegal immigration but actually quadrupled it.

Common sense dictates that the US cannot effectively stop hungry people from sneaking into our country.  If one adds to that the bi-national elite's use of the undocumented for cheap labor, remittances, political gain and the massive "border security" budget increases that accompany the eventual legalization of the US undocumented, the intent of their system of poverty/profit-driven illegal immigration and ensuing reforms become crystal clear.

Washington's system of profit driven illegal immigration and its ensuing profit-driven border security reform have become institutionalized as Washington uses undocumented laborers then passes all costs on to US tax payers.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/12/immigration-reform-rewards-everyone.html


 

Washington's Immigration Reform Ignores and Exacerbates The Cause Of Illegal Immigration

In response: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/joe-biden-immigration_n_4428335.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

Washington's Immigration Reform Ignores and Exacerbates The Cause Of Illegal Immigration

The Senate's S.744 will not stop illegal immigration, but Washington's cronies in the border security industrial complex will sure get rich "trying".

Use your heads.  This multi-billion dollar industry and the politicians who push it need illegal immigration to continue to flourish.  This is just like their war on drugs;  all of the profit is in the "fight" not in the fixing.    

How about an initial paycheck of $46,300,000,000 tax payers' dollars?  Check out that tidy little sum buried in Section 6 of the bill.    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744/text

We have collectively lost our rational minds when we let these profiteering politicians spend 46 billion dollars trying to stop hungry people from coming into the US while they have purposely made zero efforts to discuss or attempt to address the poverty that pushes the vast majority (60% Mexican) of the US undocumented  here.

Look at Vice President Joe Biden's September 20, 2013 speech in Mexico "Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden at the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue".

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09A/20/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-us-mexico-high-level-economic-dialogue

And look at our own US Department of State's glorifying description of our relations with Mexico.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35749.htm

You don't have to read between the lines, their message is clear.  The bi-national relationship between the two countries is all about economic profit.  As far as the Mexican and other Latin American undocumented and US taxpayers are obviously concerned, we are mere pawns in their profit driven- illegal immigration game. 

They don't care about poverty in Mexico or the US.  They don't care about US jobs exported away via NAFTA or the loss of US jobs to the undocumented.

They don't care about stopping illegal immigration as long as they can reform millions of undocumented "out of the shadows" for billions of US taxpayer's border security dollars.

Mexican trade, oil, labor, and illegal drugs are more important to the bi-national elite than the common people on both sides of the border.

Everyone concerned with  CIR needs to see their real agenda and stop reform in its tracks until these profiteers address their NAFTA poverty as the cause of our illegal immigration.

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Do Abusive Immigration Policies Foster Agent Abuse Of The Undocumented?

In response:  http://www.courierpostonline.com/comments/usatodayarticle/3975657

 

Do Abusive Immigration Policies Foster Agent Abuse Of The Undocumented?

I offer my insights as retired US Border Patrol/INS/ICE agent. 

First of all, there is no justification for agents to verbally abuse or physically mistreat the undocumented - period.  Unfortunately - disgracefully and even unlawfully - it does happen. 

In my opinion the blame for this abuse of course first falls upon the offending officer(s).  With that said,   some degree of blame next goes to the US and Mexican governments for creating and condoning the conditions  that foster this abuse.   

The undocumenteds' governments (or more specifically the elite who run their governments) dehumanize their  own citizens by profitizing home-country poverty that pushes their people north for remittances.  The US government pays agents well to do their jobs.  Yet those agents to some degree have to become dehumanized in order to perform the degrading task of chasing primarily hungry people around at night like animals.  Agents who stay on the job learn quickly that they will not be given the political or public support or necessary resources to do their jobs effectively. 

Agents see their own government reward the undocumented people who they are supposed to stop  with immigration "reform".  They also see undocumented and at times their fellow officers die playing  this very confusing and sometimes deadly "game".   Any agent who has one once of common sense or humanity begins to question what really motivates our government's insidious system of border enforcement.

Again - There are no excuses for agents who abuse or mistreat the undocumented.  Those officers who commit such acts need to be prosecuted and fired. 

Beyond the individual agent's actions I say we all need to look at the trickledown effect of our government's  and the undocumenteds governments' responsibilities in creating and condoning the conditions that cause illegal immigration.   The undocumented and US taxpayers are both abused by Washington's system of profit-driven illegal immigration. 

Is it any wonder such a system would attract officers who are abusive too?   

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-abusive-immigration-policies-foster.html     

What's Behind Washington's Use Of The Undocumented To "Reform Rape" US Taxpayers?

In response:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/10/obama-deportation-arrests_n_4420605.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices

It is so easy to blame the messengers when the blamers are so brainwashed that they do not know who is raping whom.

What's Behind Washington's Use Of The Undocumented To "Reform Rape" US Taxpayers?

The whole insidious reform scam is about Washigton's decades-long rape of primarily the Mexican undocumented and then in turn the rape of US taxpayers.   If you want to get to the bottom of this corruption and insanity you will have to do some homework.

Washington's Amnesty and NAFTA despite their rhetoric to end illegal immigration created social and economic conditions in Mexico that pushed more undocumented people here than ever before.

http://conservativetimes.org/?p=10638
http://economyincrisis.org/content/disastrous-nafta-failures-negatively-impact-u-s-jobs-illegal-immigration

Compare The Numbers

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (Reagan's Amnesty) legalized some 2.9 million undocumented and initially cost the US taxpayers 900 million dollars.  Scroll down to Section 111 for initial funding:
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/ilink/docView/PUBLAW/HTML/PUBLAW/0-0-0-15.html#0-0-0-355

Fast forward to today's Senate S. 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act as they want to RPI legalize some 11.2 million undocumented with initial funding of $46,300,000,000 (billion) dollars. Scroll down to Section 6:  
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744/text

Initial costs of today's Washington Immigration reform is about 45 billion dollars more than the initial costs of Reagan's 1986 Amnesty.

The Insidious Mexican/US Economic Factors

Here is what they are not telling us:  Washington has sold our economic souls to Mexico and created a system of  profitized illegal immigration reform that rapes the undocumented in order to rape us.

Mexico and the US share 1.25 billon dollars a day in cross border trade.  Mexico is our number two source of oil and our third largest trading partner.  Over one million cars, trucks, and people legally cross the border from Mexico into the US daily.  Wal-Mart is Mexico's number one retailer and more US corn is sold in Mexico than Mexican corn.  Investors in the US invest more money in Mexico than any other country does in Mexico, and don't forget the US owned border factories and car manufacturers in Mexico.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35749.htm

On The Dark Mexican Side   

Mexico supplies the majority of illegal drugs to the US,  and also supplies the majority of undocumented to the US (60%).  Remittances from Mexico's US undocumented and supporters help the Mexican poor (40% of the population) survive. 

Since 2006 over 120,000 people have been slaughtered in the US backed drug war in Mexico while Harvard University coddles the puppet Mexican NAFTA/Drug War President Felipe Calderon .
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14761-fleeing-his-own-war-on-drugs-felipe-calderon-finds-refuge-at-harvard

The US sends tons of illegal drug cash and illegal guns to Mexico to feed US addictions to drugs and their addiction to money.  US and Global banks have been involved in laundering Mexican cartel drug profits.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/12/11/hsbc-laundering-probe/1760351/

The Hard Questions Washington Won't Address

Is it economically and physically possible to seal the US/Mexican Border?

Would Mexico's economy collapse if we did seal the border and stopped their illegal drugs and undocumented workers coming north?

Would the US economy collapse if Mexico's economy collapsed?

How many US border security and interior enforcement industrial jobs are created by illegal immigration to the US?

Why does Washington seldom if ever address Mexican poverty and violence as exacerbating factors to US illegal immigration from Mexico?

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/12/whats-behind-washingtons-use-of.html
      




 

Millions More Undocumented, Billions More In Border Security And One Question Left Unasked

Millions More Undocumented, Billions More In Border Security And One Question Left Unasked

I find it astonishing that not one Washington politician or one immigration activist raises the single most important question concerning over 60% of the undocumented in the US.    

I have not heard any of them ask once or even suggest that they include in their reform discussions why the (Mexican) undocumented come here.

Is why they are coming not important to solving the problem?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/immigration-is-a-nafta-pr_b_642484.html

Washington's NAFTA exacerbates poverty in Mexico which exacerbates Mexican illegal immigration, yet Immigration Reform Politicians say nothing of this during their reform discussions?

Name one business corporation in the US besides the US government who would choose to disregard a subject that constitutes 60% of a problem they that are attempting to resolve.   

The Senate with their S. 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act wants funding of  $46,300,000,000 for the main categories of  border security, immigrant visas, interior enforcement, non-immigrant visa reform, jobs for youth,
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744/text
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/guide-s744-understanding-2013-senate-immigration-bill

Not one single penny or one single work devoted to the question of why illegal immigration is happening to the US.

One could assume that the question of "why" illegal immigration happens does not matter to our reform politician since the billions of "border security" dollars asked for now will  theoretically solve the problem. 

Yet prior increases in border security (1986 Amnesty and 1994 Operation Gatekeeper) and record Obama deportations have given American taxpayers no indications that this go-round of border security tax dollars will effectively solve illegal immigration.

I think the truth is that the elite who run Washington do not want illegal immigration solved any more than they want the war against drugs or military wars solved.

They can't seem to fix the either problem but they are sure getting rich trying.

In addition to non-effective border and drug controls, someone in the two countries lite share 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade.  Mexico is our number two source of oil and our number three NAFTA trading partner.  Mexico has signed on to the very questionable Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. How many US car companies have plants in Mexico?  How many US border electronic and clothing factories are there in Mexico?  The US invests more money in Mexico than any other country invests in Mexico.  Hell Wal-Mart is the number one retail store in Mexico and more US corn is sold in Mexico than Mexican corn.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35749.htm

So US taxpayers will continue to suffer the consequences of illegal immigration and Washington's amnesties/reforms.  The everyday citizens are the ones who will stand in the over-crowded hospital emergency rooms and school rooms, not the politicians.  The everyday citizens are the ones who will continue to lose jobs to the undocumented, not Washington's politicians.  The everyday citizens are the ones who will see their hometown demographics turn for the worse while politicians live way above all that. 

For the undocumented to come they will continue to have to leave their homes and families and face the dangers of crossing the border.  More will die as crossing the border will become increasingly more difficult - but not impossible.  It will never be impossible.

If Washington gets its immigration reforming way this current group of 11.2 million will sell their laboring souls for 13 years of labor peonage for a chance at US citizenship.  Legalizing this group will again be the impetus for the next wave of millions more who will without a doubt come. 

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/12/millions-more-undocumented-billions.html





 

From 1986's Immigration Reform To Now: 27 Years, +/- 10 Million More Undocumented and 45 Billion More Expensive

From 1986's Immigration Reform To Now:  27 Years, +/- 10 Million More Undocumented and 45 Billion More Expensive

Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform:  The Profitized Cycle Of Deceit

Reagan's 1986 Amnesty sent a clear worldwide message with particular emphasis to our closest Latin American neighbors:  if you can make it through the border we will at some point forgive you.  Note in the article below the estimated amount of fraudulent Amnesty applications that were successfully rubber stamped through by the Reagan Administration's INS.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/washington/23amnesty.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/30/in-1986-congress-tried-to-solve-immigration-why-didnt-it-work/

Clinton's 1994 NAFTA created a trade policy that literally pushes primarily Mexican undocumented people here.  It ruined small Mexican corn farms and businesses, and many of the border factory jobs promised were outsourced to China.  
http://economyincrisis.org/content/disastrous-nafta-failures-negatively-impact-u-s-jobs-illegal-immigration

The Mexican elite is happy to  those remittances coming back to their economy, and the US elite is happy to see cheap labor coming north.

Reagan's Amnesty and Clinton's NAFTA actually increased US illegal immigration despite their "border security" tax dollar enhancements and promises to stop it.

Increased illegal immigration created the need for more immigration deportations and more immigration prisons.  Arizona's "Operation Streamline" cashes in on Federal Prosecutions and Immigration Prison Detentions by simultaneously creating "criminal aliens" and Corrections Corporation of America taxpayer supported inmates.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-10-21/news/operation-streamline-costs-taxpayers-millions-tramples-on-the-constitution-treats-immigrants-like-cattle-and-doesn-t-work-so-why-are-the-feds-so-committed-to-it/ 

Almost 3 million undocumented were legalized during Reagan's 1986 Amnesty.  Clinton's NAFTA helped push the estimated number of US undocumented to the 11.2 million who are here today. 

Today Washington attempts to "reform immigration" the same way that Reagan's 1986 Amnesty did by legalizing the 11.2 million people here with Registered Provisional Immigrant Status and increasing border security measures.

The initial funding requests for Reagan's Amnesty - Pub. L 99-603 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986  was $841 million dollars, see Section 111.
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/ilink/docView/PUBLAW/HTML/PUBLAW/0-0-0-15.html#0-0-0-355

The initial funding request for Washington's Immigration reform  S.744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act  is $46.3 billion dollars.  See Section 6
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744/text

Let's see:  27 years later, roughly 10 million more undocumented and 45 billion more dollars, or 45 thousand times more expensive.

We have indeed met the enemy Pogo. 

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/12/from-immigration-1986-reform-to-now-27.html