Category Archives: South of the Border

Where’s the fence, George?

Posted on June 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Where’s the fence, George?

Some Hispanics were just as opposed to the shot-down-in-flames immigration bill as some gringoes:

"We all know that the temporary guest worker program that the bill proposed was a cheap labor program. Obviously that was the point. What wasn’t so obvious is that if you were one of the less-educated immigrants–for example if you didn’t graduate in high school–your wages would be decreasing. The bill had no wage floor provisions: there was no requirement that the employers pay prevailing wages…The influx of cheap labor would have had a depressing effect on wages across the board, not just on unskilled labor."

Meanwhile, where’s the fence? Even the piddling one being built is fouled up, as this AP editorial-as-news reports. Of course the Mexican government won’t cooperate. They’re the problem to begin with.

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George’s and Teddy’s ugly act

Posted on June 27, 2007 | Comments Off on George’s and Teddy’s ugly act

Despite widespread opposition, the illegal immigration bill marches to passage.

"There’s something creepy about a political class so determined to impose a vast transformative bill cooked up backstage in metaphorically smoke-filled rooms on a nation that doesn’t want it. It’s an affront to republican government and quasi-European in its disdain for the citizenry." –Mark Steyn

Why it’s almost as if Mexico City was calling the shots. There are times when this democracy looks and acts exactly like the oligarchy south of the border.

UPDATE  Well, what do you know. But even saved from this, we still have an open border that needs fencing. Fred liked the way it turned out, too.

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The real answer to illegal immigration

Posted on June 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The real answer to illegal immigration

Why, it’s nation-building, of course. In Mexico, where most of them come from. Going to the source.

Insight by WuzzaDem 

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Life and death on the southern border

Posted on June 13, 2007 | Comments Off on Life and death on the southern border

When you don’t have a real border, because you don’t have enough people to enforce it, and won’t build a fence to help them, you get fearful citizens, arming themselves a hundred miles from the Rio Grande:

"If it was the immigrants of old there’d be no fear; you’d live and let live. If they wanted to improve their lives that’s fine. Before, the travelers came alone or with one or two of their family, and they were humble, polite. Now they come in packs. They’re desperate, bold. A lot of them are pretty well dressed, and everyone seems to want to go to Houston. It’s a completely different element."

From The Immigrant Graveyards of South Texas, a long read but an uncommonly good one from the Texas Observer. Via AlterNet

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Where’s the fence?

Posted on June 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Where’s the fence?

Yeah, George, where’s the fence? Imaginative use of Web 2.0 for a political campaign, here.

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Down Mexico way

Posted on May 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Down Mexico way

And you wonder why we have so many immigrants from Mexico? Volkwagen AG is doing peachy, but its workers in Mexico aren’t getting their government-mandated share, according to Mark in Mexico:

"This profit sharing requirement, along with the various and onerous tax schemes promoted by the government, the crumbling or never-existed-in-the-first-place infrastructure, third rate educational system, law of the mordida and all the way down to business executives and/or family members being picked off the streets in kidnapping operations, contribute to the sad fact that hardly any Mexican businesses make a profit even when they do make a profit, if you catch my drift."

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Islamic immigration

Posted on May 23, 2007 | Comments Off on Islamic immigration

Meanwhile, back at the rancho… While the pols in D.C. debate their latest immigration fix-it bill, the San Antonio Express News reports from Mexico, Central America and the Middle East that the U.S., Mexico and others are, indeed, working together to capture illegal Muslim immigrants before they cross the border. So far, with less manpower than they need, they’ve caught about 6,000. But they estimate another 20,000 to 60,000 have gotten through. Swell. Now, about those other 12 million illegals, with more coming every day…

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