The US/Mexican Border Hunger Games

In Response: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mexico-poverty_n_3673568.html

How many posters here are so brainwashed by American exceptionalism propaganda that they do not realize how Washington's NAFTA has substantially contributed to not only Mexican poverty, but US illegal immigration too?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/immigration-is-a-nafta-pr_b_642484.html

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/01/107871/free-trade-us-corn-flows-south.html#.Uih8pE7nbIU

Yes you are getting screwed;  so are the Mexican undocumented.  Bi-nationally screwed by not only your own government but the Mexican government too. 

The crony, corrupt politicians who run both governments profit via the exportation/importation of Mexico's poor.  It's labor in exchange for billions in remittances.

Then Washington caves in with another variation of Amnesty as the two supposed political parties of our plutocracy (parading as a democracy) haggles over immigration reform.

Yes - how to screw US taxpayers out of billions more for their elite's "border security" arm of the US military industrial complex (MIC) while keeping those undocumented Mexican laborers coming.

Is it a coincidence that the "drug enforcement" arm of the MIC has been profiting off of their failed mission for over forty years?  "Illegal" immigration is no different.

Meanwhile the stage is being set for the next wave of undocumented.  Sure the border is more secure.  It now has turned into the "US/Mexican Border Hunger Games" where only the strongest and most fit will make it through.  But mark my word:  they will keep coming because that is where the political and industrial profit is.    

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-usmexican-border-hunger-games.html




 

Bio - John Randolph AKA "twopesos"

My name is John Randolph.  I am a twenty-six year retired veteran of the US Border Patrol, INS Criminal Investigations, and ICE.   I have now been an anti-drug war/pro immigration awareness activist for eight years.  

I spent my first ten years working in San Diego as a US Border Patrol Agent.  I experienced firsthand how Washington politics helped create the ineffectiveness of my agency.  I then worked for sixteen years as a special agent and supervisory special agent with the Criminal Investigations Section of the INS (which became Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE after George W. Bush's questionable creation of DHS in 2003).

My area of self-study and concern in retirement includes the ongoing US backed Mexican Drug War and the insidious politics of US illegal immigration.

The current Mexican Drug War was started with US support by Mexican President Felipe Calderon in 2006.  It rages on today under President Pena-Nieto and with its present collateral, government-induced slaughter of some 120,000 people.   I see the Mexican Drug War as an extension of Washington's forty-year long failed - yet highly profitable - war on drugs.  

I also stay informed about today's illegal immigration issues and I am against the current immigration reform legislation in congress.  I believe Washington turns a blind eye to NAFTA which has increased Mexican poverty and US/Mexican bi-national greed as the root causes of 62% of our present undocumented population.  I believe Washington intentionally  fails to address our Mexican illegal immigration problems and the current drug war deaths because of their need for cheap labor and the 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade and Mexican oil that the bi-national elite share.  Not only the undocumented but US taxpayers suffer the costs and consequences of our ineffective, decades-long US immigration policies.  

I have created a power point presentation that details my experiences as a Border Patrol Agent.  I can also adjust the presentation to address the issues noted above.     
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-randolph/from-border-patrol-agent-to-immigration-reform-activist_b_943799.html  

http://www.change.org/petitions/harvard-appeal-100-000-signatures-one-for-each-person-sacrificed-during-felipe-calder%C3%B3n-s-senseless-us-backed-war 

My blog (I write under the name of twopesos)

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/

email:  j_m_randolph@hotmail.com

     
 

Mexican Oil = Yes; Iranian Oil = No?

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/john-boehner-syria_n_3860505.html

Meanwhile - since 2006 Washington has supported Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Mexico's failed drug war where some 120,000 souls have been collaterally slaughtered right across our southern border?  Isn't Mexico's corrupt government fighting Mexico's criminal cartels for control of all those chemicals that they turn into drugs which kill people too?

How many of our shyster Washington politicians have overlooked and remained silent about our friendly southern neighbor's continuing atrocity right next door? 
Could it be that Washington does not want to upset the Mexican trade/oil teacart but does want to upset the Syrian/Iranian oil teacart on behalf of  Israel?

Just sayin'.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/09/mexican-oil-si-iranian-oil-no.html

 

Washington Intentionally Profits By Simultaneously "Fighting" Illegal Immigration And "Perpetuating" It Too.

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/path-to-citizenship_n_3852156.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices 

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/immigration-reform-95980.html

This government of ours and its current immigration reform fiasco will not solve the illegal immigration problem.  With that being said, we need to wake up and consider the worst and most insidious case scenario against Washington here:  Washington intentionally profits by simultaneously "fighting" illegal immigration and "continuing" it too.  We the People are paying the price.

NAFTA intentionally shipped our jobs away while causing the largest influx of undocumented ever in American history.

Don't "buy" their border security lies.  I learned as a young Border Patrol Agent that nothing our government does on the border is designed to effectively stop hungry, motivated people.  Washington and its cronies simultaneously capitalize off the never-ending, expendable source of cheap labor and  billions from our "border security" tax dollars.

The only thing they secure at the border is the profits they make from our tax dollars.

Illegal immigration and border security have become another specific arm of the US Military Industrial Complex (MIC).  Compare their fight against illegal immigration to the 40+ year long failed US war on drugs.  The money to be made is not in solving the problem;  it is made in the prolonged fight.  The MIC needs wars and terrorists to thrive.  Their drug enforcement arm needs illegal drugs to thrive, and their illegal immigration/border security arm needs illegal aliens to thrive.

Again - we need to wake up and see their worst case scenario for what it really is:  the simultaneous profitization of the illegal activity and the "war" against the illegal activity.

They simultaneously profit from making (fill in the blank) a crime while going to perpetual "war" against (fill in the blank). 

They simultaneously profit from making (illegal drugs) a crime while going to perpetual "war" against (illegal drugs).

They simultaneously profit from making (illegal immigration) a crime while going to perpetual "war" against (illegal immigration).

They simultaneously profit from making (terrorism) a crime while going to perpetual "war" against (terrorism).

Wake up folks.  This is exactly what US intervention in the Mid-East (Syria) is about.  They use the crime or threat of terrorism to secure oil or the US and Israel.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/09/washington-intentionally-profits-by.html





 

Why Does Obama Draw A Red Line With 1,400 Deaths In Syria But Not With 120,000 Deaths in Mexico?

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/congress-syria-divided_n_3853644.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/319863-obamas-call-to-arms-on-syria-encounters-skepticism-at-capitol

Washington refuses to turn a blind eye to Syria while ignoring the horrific results of the Mexican Government's and Mexican Military's failed drug war in which 120,000 of their own people have been killed?

Where is the outrage about the Mexican Government's collaterally slaughtered souls and that continuing US-backed quagmire-slash-nightmare?

At the most basic level of human suffering both countries have witnessed thousands of innocent people being massacred.  Bombs, bullets, and chemical gas have been employed as each governments' militaries fight their respective enemies (anti-government "rebels" or organized crime's "cartel thugs") for control of their respective government's power, oil, and drug profits.

Who in their right minds would ignore the atrocities committed by either of these governments' militaries?  There are of course many documented cases of corruption, civil rights abuses, and murder by the militaries of and in both countries. 

Is there really a substantial difference in death by chemical gas or death by torture, machine gun fire, or beheading? 

Why does Obama draw a red line with 1,400 chemical weapon deaths Syria but not with 120,000 drug war deaths in Mexico?  Why does Obama not only turn a blind eye to Mexico's drug war, but also to Mexico's failure to provide for their own citizens which in turn pushes their poor into the US as 62% of our undocumented?

Does not Mexican illegal immigration and the Mexican illegal drug trafficking across our bi-national border pose just as much a threat to our national security as the use of chemical weapons half way around the world in Syria?

It is all about the governmental control of power and profits and the use of our tax dollars to protect the same.   In Mexico it comes from trade, drugs and labor and in Syria it comes from oil and Israeli cronyism.       

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-does-obama-draw-red-line-with-1400.html

        



     

All of their profit comes from continuing and not fixing the problem

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/path-to-citizenship_n_3852156.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

The most important question that these so-called "reform" profiteers should be discussing is how are they once and for all going to address and solve the undocumenteds' home country poverty as the cause to US illegal immigration.
 
62% of our undocumented are Mexican citizens, yet the bi-national elite share 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade?  Meanwhile Mexico's undocumented would not come or stay here if they could have similar wages and services working and living at home with their families.

This is a scam by which that they profit off of the backs of undocumented labor, potential voting power and US citizen's tax dollars.

All of their profit comes from continuing and not fixing the problem. 

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/09/all-of-their-profit-comes-from.html

Obama Kicks The Chemical Can To Congress

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/john-kerry-sarin-syria_n_3852173.html

Syrian intervention is all about oil and weapons profits.

Please check out this Chris Hedges discussion about Obama's announcement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSm_0pSEACk&feature=youtu.be

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/09/obama-kicks-chemical-can-to-congress.html