See, Speak, and Hear No Evil About The Mexican Govenment

American taxpayers have had it with paying for the medical bills, educational costs, and loss of jobs stemming from Mexico’s undocumented migrants living within the US.  Generally speaking, their angry solution is focused upon stopping and removing the undocumented.   

I worked as a US Border Patrol Agent/INS/ICE special agent from 1979 until 2005.  From that experience I have learned many things.  One of which is that the vast majority of Mexicans who I encountered would absolutely choose to work and stay at home if they could only make a decent living wage in Mexico.  

Another fact is that they truly love their country and their families.

A third point is that they are truly afraid of the corrupt Mexican police and corrupt Mexican government officials who rule with impunity and with iron fists.

 I have watched the tides of this immigration debate swirl around for over thirty years.  There are a few questions that astounded me as a young agent, and still astound me today.

Why do we rarely if ever hear our politicians scrutinize the corrupt Mexican oligarchy for its responsibility with our immigration problems? 

Why does our government allow our neighboring country to abuse the economic and civil rights of its own citizens and in reality, force them to come and work here? 

Finally, why do taxpaying American citizens blame the undocumented for this crisis and overlook the ties of the elite who run our country and the elite who run Mexico?

I suggest that the elite on both sides of the border profit by and through American tax dollars funding their failed immigration and drug policies.   

Just how badly does the American elite need Mexican trade, oil, labor, drugs, and investment opportunities?

To me the real irony here is that many Americans vote for their American elite’s politicians who in turn legislate the same failed immigration and drug policies that continue to waste our tax dollars.

Someone is making lots of money off of our ignorance, and it will never change unless we educate ourselves to the truth of what is going on. 

Read up about our elite’s immense economic ties with Mexico.  Read up about the truth of what NAFTA has done to the Mexican economy and Mexican corn growers.  Read up about who owns the biggest “box stores” in Mexico.  Read up about how much money Mexican workers are paid and what their real cost of living is while working in US maquiladoras (factories) on the Mexican side of the border.  Read up about Ciudad Juarez and what NAFTA and the war on drugs has done to our sister city across from El Paso.  Read up about the Merida Initiative and how billions of US dollars have made no difference with the availability of drugs in the US. Read up about how Mexican President Calderon’s use of the Mexican military for fighting our war on drugs has killed almost 40,000 Mexicans since Calderon’s 2006 decision.   Read up about all of the civil rights violations and accusations of murders that are pending against the Mexican military since 2006.  Read up about how Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia’s son was recently brutally murdered by cartel thugs.  Read up about Senor Sicilia’s movement for Peace and Justice in Mexico.  Read up about how the Mexican people are challenging the corrupt Calderon administration and the war on drugs.  Read up about how you can support their efforts which will take place in Ciudad Juarez on June 15, 2011.     

I suggest that the elite profit from our ignorance and Washington’s economic love affair with Mexico.  

I suggest that because of economic ties with Mexico, Washington supports the policy of “See, Speak and Hear No Evil” about the Mexican Government, and overlooks the narco tragedy that is taking place in Mexico today.