Is Not Trump But A Pimple On The Face Of A Much More Insidious Problem?

And what is that "insidious" problem?

Please read this article from Popular Resistance:  https://popularresistance.org/newsletter-the-problem-isnt-trump-its-bigger/

And this one from Bill Moyers: http://billmoyers.com/story/from-resisting-trump-to-what/

And this one from Common Dreams, Chris Hedges:  http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/06/make-america-ungovernable?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

And very inspiring, Jeremy Scahill:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQtVmhG6Nms

Just found this one by George Monbiot:  http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39374-how-corporate-dark-money-is-taking-power-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic

Amy Goodman:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-47CQotpMw

Josh Harkinson:   http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/stephen-bannon-miller-trump-refugee-ban-islamophobia-white-nationalist

Robert Reich:  http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/reich/article/Why-America-First-is-a-dangerous-doctrine-10918308.php

The people who voted for Trump have every right to be angry.  They are in American trenches fighting the disparity of wealth and its symptoms:  failed health care, illegal immigration, low paying jobs, the cost of  higher education - to name a few. 

Then we have the moneyed elite who run this country - and their hired politicians who pretend to represent "We The People".

Not all politicians mind you;  just the majority in Washington.

Whether they are from the smooth talking Clinton/Obama side or the W. Bush's and the brash Trump side, they are in the same "club".   The same 1% club that the occupy movement spoke of a few years back.

And that leaves the rest of us, the 99% in the other club (or sub-sections thereof);  the dwindling middle class and/or all economic levels down to the very poor.

I agree with the linked articles.  We have to keep our eye on the system that keeps producing the Clintons and Trumps - yet never really stands for We The People.  We need to stop Trump's and Bannon's attempt to create an authoritarian state.  We have to restructure our government so that it is not all about money, greed and control.

We need to wake up.  Just as the promises that Obama made faded off into the sunset, so will Trump's.  Why?  They are two sides of the same golden coin that belongs to them - not us.  They flip their own coin which always comes up heads for them.   Then they try and convince us that we will finally win the toss for our side.  Just hang on.

So I ask those of you who voted for Trump and those of you who didn't:  consider the possibility that both sides are being played against each other.  Is that not what is happening?  We have to be smarter than that.  

Consider what Trump promised and what he does.  Most importantly, he claimed he would make America great again and stand for the workers.   I dare say that hiring a cabinet of billionaires, not showing his tax returns and removing environmental and Wall Street regulations should be taken as red flags.  Red flags that he has conned you and lied to you.  He is not going to do as he promised.

I ask you to educate yourselves and listen to other news agencies than FOX or CNN.  I ask you to take responsibility for your picking Trump if and when in fact that choice turns out to hurt America.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/trump-is-but-pimple-on-face-of-real.html

 

The Trump "Administration" Is Going To Implode

 I pray he doesn’t take the rest of America and the World with him.

Will Trump's Insults To Mexico Inflame Mexican Terrorism?

https://apnews.com/0b3f5db59b2e4aa78cdbbf008f27fb49

Who in their right might would insult our good neighbors to the South?

Isn't it bad enough that we have home grown terrorism?  Will Trump's ignorance and macho talk enflame more lone wolf or organized terrorist acts stemming from Mexico?

Trump is putting American lives in danger. Trump, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer and Kelly Anne Conway need to step down immediately.  

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/will-trumps-insults-to-mexico-enflame.html



 

The US and Mexican Elite Have Normalized The Profitization Of Illegal Immigration

The US and Mexican Elite Have Normalized The Profitization Of Illegal Immigration

It's all about the haves and the have-nots.  Or how the "haves" will get more, and the "have-nots" will get less.     

For decades now the elite who run both the US and Mexican governments have rigged their economic plans in order to simultaneously exploit the Mexican undocumented AND the US middle class.

Check out the disparity of wealth in Mexico:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexicos-Extreme-Inequality-1-Owns-Half-of-Countrys-Wealth-20150625-0034.html

And in the US:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/18/pf/wealth-inequality/

And in the world:  http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/20/morbid-inequality-now-just-six-men-have-much-wealth-half-worlds-population

I knew something was totally screwy when I was a US Border Patrol Agent.  We worked in Carlsbad, CA.  We chased field workers around and around.  Most of the workers were from Oaxaca, Mexico.  They picked our tomatoes and strawberries and we were paid to arrest them and take them back to Mexico via Tijuana.  The majority of them made it back in a day or so.

Twenty six years of service later (seven with the USBP and nineteen with INS investigations/ICE) and twelve years in retirement and I still struggle with the "whys".  Especially now when I see Donald Trump say he is going to build his wall and fix the problems of not only illegal immigration but illegal drugs coming from Mexico.

I know many people in the US are rightfully angry and fearful about illegal immigration.  I also know many who see Washington's forty year long drug war as a total failure.

My brother is one of them.  He has witnessed our small town of San Jacinto CA turn into something that resembles a Mexican border town.  Our small town is not only filled with undocumented people, it is filled with Hispanic and Black gangbangers too. 

So my brother lives with the gun shots ringing at night and a police helicopter flying above his and his wife's home.  The same house that we grew up in. 

He walks downtown on the same streets that we rode our bikes on as kids.  The majority of the downtown stores' signs are now in Spanish, not English.  He sees homeless people and drug addicts wandering the streets.  He wonders how all of this happened.

My brother is the face of America who elected Donald Trump.  They elected Donald Trump because of Trump's promise to build a border wall, stop illegal immigration, stop illegal drugs and make America great again.  They elected Donald Trump because they are done with the Democrat's empty promises and useless narratives about immigration reform.

I understand my brother's dismay.  With that said, I combine my own experience from working as a US Border Patrol/ICE agent with a view that illegal immigration is a symptom of something much more insidious.

I see the influx of the undocumented (especially after NAFTA) as the planned economic exploitation of  these cheap laborers in conjunction with their medical and educational costs being passed along to the American middle class.  Of  course the Wall Street created Mortgage Meltdown of 2008 exacerbated much of with my brother sees and lives in.  Yet the presence of the undocumented in the US and the downsizing of the American middle class are simply the bi-national elite's "costs of doing business" i.e. the business of getting rich.

See more:
http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-us-and-mexican-elite-have.html

In the final analysis both groups are the victims of the greed and immigration ineffectiveness of both elite-run governments.

So is Trump's border wall and "Put America First" the solution to my brother's problem? 

I - at this point in my life - say "no".  I say no because Trump's solution does not recognize the actual cause of the problem.   Illegal immigration, a symptom of the bi-national elite's continuous greed, has been normalized to be held as a problem that causes itself.  Hence the immigration narratives of America's and Mexico's politicians never address their masters' greed as the cause of poverty that in turn causes illegal immigration.  

How does their greed turn into profit?  Primarily the Mexican elite export their own poor in order to receive back into Mexico billions of dollars in remittances.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexicos-remittances-reach-almost-27-billion/2017/02/01/19771e14-e8a3-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html?utm_term=.5b0ed8ee283c

Kind of like a welfare system in which the undocumented support their own poor families back home by working in the US.  Additionally the Mexican government does not have to provide health care and schooling for millions of its own citizens.  We The People do. 

By the way, the same corrupt Mexican elite pulls off a very similar, insidious export/import scam with the production and distribution of illegal drugs.  The cartel run government clandestinely exports drugs and billions flow back south into their pockets. 

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/03/20/291934724/awash-in-cash-drug-cartels-rely-on-big-banks-to-launder-profits

It is the same strategy - only using a different commodity.  And if any of you can't imagine Mexico's government being that corrupt you need to think again.

How does the US elite turn their greed into profit?  Primarily through the Mexican undocumented providing cheap laborer to US corporations.   I used to work for ICE and I know their employer sanctions efforts are totally ineffective.  I think that that ineffectiveness is by design. 

Meanwhile the US middle class suffers all of the costs and consequences of said "export/importation".   Do you think the "bubbles" that our millionaire politicians live in contain overcrowded hospital emergency rooms and overcrowded school rooms like those in my brother's area?  Do these millionaires see the demographics of their small towns being unfairly changed by this "export/importation"?  Do these millionaires have to worry about drug addicts or mentally ill criminals burglarizing their homes?  Or the loss in value of their homes due to this influx?

Speaking of greed and profit, look at the ever increasing budgets of the entire US immigration and drug enforcement complexes.  Billions of US tax dollars annually poured into the largest police and prison systems in the world.   Not unlike the US military industrial complex which produces the most weapons and therefore the most wars in the entire world.

http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/dhs

These industries are dependent upon the Mexican elite's "exportation" of undocumented people and illegal drugs.  They are also dependent upon the our foreign wars against terrorism too.    

We must also become aware of their propaganda strategies.

For the "build the wall" industries it is "those murdering, raping illegal aliens, Mexicans and drug cartel thugs".  For the US war machine it is the lies of our own government such as those about WMD's in Iraq.  It is alto the fear creating/stereotyping/marginalizing labels such as "those Mid-Eastern radical Muslim terrorists" who must be banned from the US. 

Ban Muslims.  Build Trump's Wall.  Build an oil pipeline that endangers American Indian's sources of water and sacred land.  It's all for the elite's economic and military security at the expense of "We The People" in our "land of the free".

From my experience as a US Border Patrol/ICE agent if the Mexican poor have no hope of prosperity  they will keep coming to the US.  Remember, the approximate minimum wage in Mexico today - for an eight hour day of labor - is equivalent to about four US dollars (four US dollars a day). 

As long as the Mexican elite does not provide for its own people the Mexican undocumented will keep coming.  As long as the US elite dangles the labor and immigration reform carrots out in front of the Mexican undocumented  - they will keep coming.

As long as the politicians of this bi-national elite profit from this twisted and failed immigration status quo - the Mexican undocumented (and others) will keep coming. 

AND as long as this nightmare continues the American middle class will continue to foot the bills. 

And last - but horribly not least - undocumented people will continue to die crossing the border.

http://tucson.com/news/local/border/deaths-per-border-crossers-are-up-times-from-a-decade/article_c1279aaf-4ad8-51c9-82d8-3143b836f52e.html

Criminal aliens will continue to commit murders in the US.   And more world refugees will die as a result of US military actions around the world.

As long as Washington's narratives demand that the undocumented and Muslims are the cause, rather than symptoms of  more treacherous problems - our illegal immigration problems will never be solved.

And how the US elite gets away with profiting from not solving problems is beyond me.

I ask that you educate yourselves so that you know what the actual problems are.  Only then will we have a chance at solving them.

Finally, I do not know what Trump is up to.  Check out this article which claims Trump threatened  Mexican President Pena Nieto with US troops going into Mexico. http://thehill.com/policy/international/317463-ap-trump-told-mexican-president-to-handle-bad-hombres-or-us-troops-would
     
Trump is a madman.  He needs to be kicked out of office.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-us-and-mexican-elite-have.html






 

Trump's Fall - American Spring

As the Women's March rocked America:

Start writing, calling, emailing and post-carding congress and state representatives.

Make your signs and get out and protest/march peacefully.  I hope they are listening.

Trump's Fall - American Spring  

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/01/trumps-fall-american-spring.html

 

Bi-National US/Mexico Border March - "No To Trump's Wall Of Shame and Fear"

Inspired by the Women's March on Washington: 

The time has come for the hardworking, wonderful people of both the US and Mexico and the world to stand up to Washington's and Mexico's failed immigration  policies.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Trump's plan to build a multi-billion dollar border wall.

Billions of dollars that could be used to help solve the very poverty that drives illegal immigration.

More walls, more agents, more border deaths, more drug related murders, more murders in the US interior by undocumented criminals, more poverty, more hatred, more illegal immigration, more illegal drugs - and more of the two government's same failed narratives and policies.

MOST OF ALL - more profit for the bi-national, neo-liberal elite;  profit from bi-national corporate trade, cheap labor, the expansion of the US border enforcement/drug enforcement industrial complexes, more remittances and the continuation of Washington's 40 year long failed war on drugs.

Profit that does not trickle down to Mexico's or America's poor.  Profit that precludes any hopes of prosperity for the same.

Shutting down the border will make the bi-national 1% bleed green - the only color they can relate to;  the only color that will get their attention.

Profit that guarantees the continuation of poverty and illegal immigration.  Profit that guarantees the continued decline of the US middle and poor classes.

How many more people on both sides of the border will have to die before these two governments come to their senses? 

No.  No to Trump's Wall of Hate and Shame!

Please stand by for further details of this March TBA.

John Randolph is a retired US Border Patrol/ICE agent.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/01/bi-national-usmexico-border-march-no-to.html

  

 

Trump Fails The Psych Test

Haiku 15-17

Trump Fails The Psych Test
God what we goin' to do?
American Spring

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/01/trump-fails-psych-test-american-spring.html