No, actually, they would probably like something to feed their kid.

I’ve long since stopped trying to understand the Minutemen type who seem to think that Mexican people have nothing better to do than play “dodge the border patrol” so that they can then come “steal jobs” just for shits and giggles.

In most cultures, a person willing to risk his or her life for the mere possibility of getting a crappy job (where they have no rights if they get exploited) so they can make sure their family has food…that person would be viewed as a fucking HERO, an ICON. Not like an opportunistic sociopath who *might* be in cahoots w/ Al Queida (and fuck you for that one, Lou Dobbs)
It’s the same hypnotic effect that the corporate media has on the American mindset when it comes to the situation in Palestine. Israel is armed to the teeth with nukes that we paid for, the Palestinians are basically living in a large concentration camp, yet the kids throwing rocks at Israeli tanks are somehow the aggressors.

And I think I’m seriously going to lose it the next time I hear Lou Dobbs criticize the American-educated elites in the Mexican government for the “illegal alien” problem (man, I hate that fucker). The US fucked over Mexico and Latin AMerican a long time ago, and until they stop stealing and hoarding the world’s resources, people are gonna have no other choice but to try to go to where the food is. It’s that simple.

I mean, in an economic sense, Mexico is the United States’ Gaza.

Great post. Very enlightening. Thank you.

“And the reason the cartels are so huge, one very massive reason, is our drug appetite, our nation’s drug appetite and perverse puritan corporate hypocrisy about what drugs are morally okay (the ones that profit Big Pharma and other US corporations) and which ones are EEEEEEvil (the ones that are easy to produce on our own and that do not profit corporate interests).”
truer words are not spoken… this is a big part of the agenda that is hidden…i have no doubt.

i think of mexico/central america as an incredibly beautiful landscape with an awesome strength of heritage that gets compromised the closer it gets to the border of this country. one end result of immigration problems is the huge resource for the prison industrial complex economic base. this suggests a certain intent and motive to me, to perpetuate and continue “this problem” for what works for a corporate few. the human being/individual and family, then becomes a measured casualty that is overlooked by the distraction of the propaganda and what is programmed to be believed as action for a greater good? it is infuriating and come on people wake up…f that…

anyway, thank you for your part in delivering the source, which can so explain the not feel right of something because of the not knowing. it is a good reminder to us all to stay vigilant, to remain conscious and not be lulled into a rhythm not of our choosing.

thanks nezua for passing it on.

It is a disturbing, by invitation only “get together”, having ties to the Army War College, an organization called the Strategic Studies Institute, and something calling itself the Migration Policy Institute.

Mobility and Security at the US-Mexico Border: Policy Challenges and Institutional Responses

The site is just full of … well, you’ll see.

on the whole i agree that narcocorridos are a natural outgrowth of the corrido. certainly not a perversion in the realm of this one.

and talk about terrorists, what would even the US’s dear Sons of Liberty be, in this day and age? it’s all okay now, because we are the empire. but the UK tried to kill those “patriots” because of course to the standing order, resistance and revolt from the status quo is always terrifying.

on mexico, well, i cant predict how close any nation is to collapse, nor did i say they were. but if the governing powers have their way, continue to have their way, what will “México” even mean soon? already the US and the corruptos in MX office do their best to hollow it out and exploit all that is exploitable at the expense of the people. cancún may be thriving, the tourist situation may be booming, US expats may be scooping up land cheaply, but that is not how i measure mexico’s health.

we both know that the US worming its way into Mexican affairs is hardly new. this Migracorrido bullshit is nothing new. the US has been doing this since before Tlaltelolco that’s for sure. and helping F. Calderón steal the election won’t be the last time we interfere, nor this. it never gets easier to know about tho. and i do think things are headed to some kind of boiling point unless both countries look realistically at the pressure and persecution the people suffer as a result of so many unrealistic arrangements that barely glue us together.