My friend and former colleague, Mark Thompson, may have retired from the State Department Bureau of Counter Terrorism — under pressure from the Obama Administration for his role as a whistle blower on Benghazi and the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens — but he is not sitting in a rocking chair staring at the horizon. Mark and his wife, Jackie, moved back to their Iowa hometown and Mark ran for the Iowa House of Representatives. Mark was inspired to do so because of his disgust at proliferating human trafficking and the accompanying crime and suffering he observed even in rural Iowa.
Despite being told he would fail, Mark led the way in getting a new law passed in his first term that dramatically increases the jail time for human traffickers. It passed unanimously in both legislative chambers in Iowa. Not bad for a rookie Statesman.
Not content with that win, Mark recently led a group of seven Iowa House of Representatives to McAllen, Texas where they spent June 12-14 observing a variety of immigration, customs and law enforcement activities on the border. The cost of the trip was personally paid by each representative. Mark and his legislator colleagues lead by example. No taxpayer junkets for them.
The Iowa Representatives observed border operations in 100 degree+ heat on the Rio Grande, customs inspections, and law enforcement coordination between a variety of agencies and ranchers. They also traveled to the Rio Grande to better understand the details surrounding the thousands of aspiring illegal immigrants who were camped out on the Mexican side waiting to rush into the United States.
Representatives Helena Hayes (Mahaska County), Luana Stoltenberg (Scott County), Steve Bradley (Jones County), Eddie Andrews, (Polk County) Zach Dieken (O’Brien County) and Tom Gerhold (Benton County) accompanied Thompson. Iowa is a destination for many of those illegally crossing the border due to promises of employment by various large industries in the state, such as pig and poultry operations. Due to their immigration status, or lack of, those entering are often subject to human trafficking. Many are minors who often have no parent or proven guardian accompanying them. Iowa schools and volunteers provide many essentials for these children.
Because of the influx of illegal migrants across the border, Texas Governor Abbott ordered Operation Lone Star in March 2021, a joint mission between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department along the southern border between Texas and Mexico.
Texas is not alone in this effort. Iowa Governor Reynolds authorized the deployment of Department of Public Safety personnel and National Guard Soldiers to Texas in August to help the Texans defend the U.S. border and try to stem the flow of illegal entries. According to the Representatives, the assistance is needed, and Texans are very appreciative.
On a related front, as noted above, Governor Reynolds signed House File 630, which unanimously passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives in Iowa. This law significantly increases the punishment for those who participate in or benefit from human trafficking — i.e., those found guilty will now face up to 25 years in prison if the victim is an adult, and upwards to life in prison if the victim is a minor.
The team of legislators will be drafting a report in the coming weeks to tell their constituents what they learned about the threat of human and drug trafficking along the border and further action that the people of Iowa can take to support border states and defeat these threats, which are inflicting suffering and death on the illegals and the citizens of the United States.
Kudos to him. I think that the reason the Biden Admin is letting in all these aliens is that they will be the canon fodder for the coming wars. I read somewhere that they will be offered citizenship if the join our armed forces branch of choice.
You are correct. Zerohedge reported last week that the Army and Air Force are offering citizenship after completing seven weeks of basic training. The previous policy was to meet two tours before granting citizenship. A colleague and I have interviewed hundreds of illegal aliens at the San Antonio Migrant Center. Some of the young males are ex-Venzeulan soldiers. They would have no reservations about brutality against US citizens, including genocide.
https://youtu.be/MboNug9D6nA
Will be sent to the Ukraine to die or to Iowa to kill?
No – they’ll be part of the WEF/great reset military to keep US citizens in line. That’s their desperation strategy as a last-ditch effort to keep the globalist dream alive. Rome used the same approach at the end – giving Goths citizenship to join the military so they could keep their increasingly restless citizens in their place. It didn’t go so well, but was misery for the citizens during the collapse.
That seems to be the strategy – get new soldiers, with no loyalty to anyone or anything that is the US, to do the deep state bidding. These will be the last ones they’ll send to Ukraine, they want them here.
If anything, they’ll send good, loyal Americans to the meat grinder as they would be more likely to ignore orders against the American people.
Both. Creepy Joe wasn’t kidding when he remarked that dissident Americans don’t have F-15s.
These migrant military recruits will be happy to donthe job Americans won’t do, namely brutally repressing any dissent in Flyover Country.
Dissident Muricans don’t have F-15s, but migrant recruits can’t fly F-15s any better that Ukrainian ones. US pilots might be dumb enough to volunteer to bomb Donbass, but sending them to bomb their home town might make them accidentally drope some on Washington D.C.
Yea, right. The magical word. Genocide. Everyone in the world is eager to do the “genocide stuff”, except the exceptional US citizens, known for not doing genocidal things since the day one up until today.
Down in Mexico there is a large US Vet organization of people who serves, were honorably discharged then deported. Their contracts were not honored with citizenship. Ive talked to a few of them and given what I know about the US Gov, I believe them.
Yep. More meat for the grinder. Service guarantees citizenship!
https://apnews.com/article/army-air-force-recruiting-shortfall-immigrants-citizenship-2cd690352210606945010d1800c5bdbe
Agree 100% that waves of illegals are being lured in for usage and disposal required for upcoming wars, criminal cartels, post war construction, etc., and vile plans that will be presented as socially beneficial. As if the Swamp ever cared about anything besides loot at any and every cost.
No way the Swampites would fund these people out of kindness and concern, they are walking into some kind of trap. Many of them would have been better and safer to stay in their poor but familiar towns. At this point they are at the mercy of psychopaths who plan and ignite endless wars on target populations to sate their insatiable and gluttonous need for blood lust and loot.
Same here in Europe! None of the native indigenous Europeans in their right mind are that fervent in wanting to fight a genocidal suicide war against Russia. Who would be dumb enough to do it for them?? Desperate imported delinquents. The Western elites have their backs to the walls. Their whole Ponzi scheme financial system is ready to implode and all they have left to ruin the party for humanity is their Sampson option.
Desperate imported delinquents are not dumb, nor brainwashed by MSM. They are not going to fight Russians, but pussyfied locals.
The Sampson option suits them just fine and they are quite familiar with its usage since they have availed themselves of it in the past. Only those times the roped in the populations of the nations they destroyed and pressed them into reconstruction but now they need even more manpower especially to clear the toxic fields and rebuild obliterated cities and of course fund the organ trade, baby and children’s trade, narcotics trade, and army ranks to keep the indigenous populations in line, hence thé never ending illegals welcomed in.
Step into my parlor said the spider to the fly.
The Republicans whine about Democrats letting these people flood into the country but won’t do anything about their business buddies hiring them. If a state can pass laws against human trafficking they can surely pass and/or enforce laws about hiring illegals. Where is E-verify? If they go to Iowa because, “Iowa is a destination for many of those illegally crossing the border due to promises of employment by various large industries in the state, such as pig and poultry operations,” then arrest the business owners for hiring them. Throw them in jail without bond. This is one reason they are called the uniparty. Nobody gives a damn about the citizens in this country. One side wants potential voters; the other side wants cheap labor.
We should demand E-verify is used by all businesses, on pain of jail time. That would go a long ways to stopping this madness
E-Verify: an internet system using U.S. gov’t Dept of Homeland Security and Social Security records to determine eligibility for employment.
Nothing says freedom like a DC bureaucrat’s approval to be employable.
That will end well.
Now do the TSA no fly list or a current vaccination card to cross State lines, as was suggested by our effluent breathing Masters not so long ago.
Rules for Bureaucracies #4:
With great power comes great … power.
Obvious systemic problems are obvious for those that want to see them. Fixing them would require fixing the system, which won’t happen because it’s intentionally made that way.
Sastamente! (Como diría El Fari) 🙁
The system isn’t going to get fixed until it is so broken there is nothing left to pick from its bones. There is no advantage to any actor to act ethically or responsibly when others around do not – nevermind that such actors get ground down. The system doesn’t have to be intentionally made that way, but it certainly has evolved that way. Sadly, this seems to say that only violence organized by “men of faith” can change this course. Perhaps that is why Putin was looking so drawn early in the SMO? Very much a “careful what you wish for” dilemma.
Yea, not created as a whole but steered in its evolution.
It’s a complicated situation. As a former employer I know that the US government knows exactly how many illegals there are, where they are including addresses.
It’s a game;
people show up with 2 pieces of required ID, a drivers license and SS card. You hire them, add them to payroll and pay them above minimum wage. Later you get a letter from the Feds saying the names and SS numbers do not match ‘IF’ your crew has over 50% non matching names. You are required to notify your employee of the problem and they are required to fix it. The next morning they show up with a brand new SS card and the game starts all over. The Feds warned me that firing someone because their SS card didn’t match could get you sued.
They pay into the SS system but will never collect, they also pay income taxes.
When our state made proving citizenship before getting a drivers license we received out of state drivers licenses. When that state changed it rules the people disappeared. We did not pay under the table which in my opinion is really stupid.
Now we have a severe labor shortage and it will set you back $8.40 for a nasty chicken sandwich meal at McD’s. My customers are routinely paying about $20 an hour for unskilled help.
The military service thing is dangerous looking to me.
When you have the amount of homeless the USA does, you do not have a “labor shortage”. If you can hire illegal migrants, you can hire the homeless.
Yea, but that would slightly decrease profit. It would be pure communism/socialsm/whateverism. No one wants that.
I admire what he is doing. People like him are all too rare these days.
It is going to take efforts on the part of the states if we are ever to get control of Washington again.
Hopefully he can make the jump to federal office. We need a united front of people like him.
Lots of luck in your senior year.
Maybe Iowa legislators will embarrass the “Republican” controlled Texas House and Senate to do more, they won’t. My House REP is more concerned about the impeachment of AG Paxton, who is going after big PHARMA. Also after 2 years the Republican controlled House Senate & Governor have done very little about Texas energy grid!
Biden, without a doubt, has a sweetheart deal with unscrupulous businessmen, who profit obscenely, from hiring the hoards of illegals now entering the US.
Every time I hear another statistic of how many of them have simply strolled across the border, I get a sucker punch from our government, thinking of how many trips I made to the US consulate overseas, how many fees I had to pay, how many interviews I had to undergo (some rather humiliating), before I could ever set foot on American soil.
Then I hear another political imbecile, who Americans themselves put in power, blurting out their cliche, “well, America is a country of immigrants”, to justify the abomination taking place on our southern border. Never mind using the word “legal” immigrants; it would be considered “racist” to do so.
No one on earth can predict what will be the outcome of being invaded by people who do not speak, do not understand, do not care, for that matter, about our language, culture and values. But I can give a small hint: The disgraceful individual and America hater, called Ilhan Omar, today is a member of the US Congress, thanks to the hoards of Somali immigrants, quietly shipped into a once beautiful place called Minneapolis, whose votes were bought for her victory, for about $100 a pop.
Americans have been fast asleep, while their country has been stolen, right out from under their noses… and now they are angry, ha!
“Legal”, according to whose laws? Those that write laws can choose what is legal, and what is not. Those that hold power, get to write laws, and rewrite them at will. If immigrants were to write the law, they would make themselvese legal immigrants, and declare natives as savages. If slaveowners were to write the laws, they would make slavery legal.
“No one on earth can predict what will be the outcome of being invaded by people who do not speak, do not understand, do not care, for that matter, about our language, culture and values.”
Native Americans could tell you a word or two about that.
Thank Geronimo for your comment. You are probably a descendant of Indians. Let me “explain” what I mean by legal, since you probably do not understand some of the criteria that enables a country, a state, a county and for that matter a family to properly function.
In order for there to be a functioning country, you need “laws”. Historically, nations choose a president, a Congress and a Supreme Court. The president is the executor, Congress makes laws and the SC decides if those laws are constitutional or not and thus either supports them or strikes them down.
Many, many moons ago, it was decided by Us Congress that in order for there to be an orderly flow of immigrants from abroad, they had to develop “rules”, without which chaos would ensue (much like what you see on our southern border, i.e., an uncontrolled influx of millions of people from all over the world).
So, they very wisely decided that people born in this country were citizens, like thousands of years ago Rome, Greece and other civilized nations did. They had rights that came from birth.
Also, they thought it very, very important that those who came to this country, speak “one” language… why, you might ask? Well, having come from a foreign country myslef, I soon learned how speaking the language is like a bridge and not speaking is like a canyon that separates me from the rest of the citizens, business, physicians, lawyers, mechanics, etc. I must be able to communicate or else, I will have to go live with those who speak my language in a corner of the community, which is exactly what you will find in EU countries, that allow tens of thousands of migrants in, with no checks and balances and then they start their own countries inside that country they went to. They become pariahs and they hate the rest of the people.
Then, just imagine if there is a war… who are all these people going to fight for?
So, my friend, you see there is a need for laws that differentiate those, like me, for instance, who did “everything” by the book, in order to enter the US. What is the use for the US govt to spend “billions” of dollars in the upkeep of Consulates all over the world, to interview applicants for visas, if the imbeciles in DC decide to let everyone into the US?
Now, I completely disagree with what the “white men” did to native Indians. It is repugnant. I also am outraged at what they did to blacks they imported from Africa for slavery, but those facts do not give license to anyone to simply say: this is not fair, so I’m going to do what I please”. That will lead to chaos, like you saw in 2020. No democracy can survive lawlessness.
Geronimo is not my real name, and I’ve never laid my foot in the Americas. If you really need to know, I am a caucasian non-woke male from Europe (pale skin, blue eyes, real penis). My ancestors lived in Roman Empire, and succeding Empires and states. My grandfather had a shed older that USA. You talking down to me, and giving me “lessons” about my “history”, and “law & order”, is both amusing and confusing at the same time. I am still not shure if you are trolling or not, but I do know that USA makes the strogest Kool-Aid.
“this is not fair, so I’m going to do what I please”
This sounds like perfect summary of United States Declaration of Independence, and every revolution that ever happened. It also encapsulates US foreing policy, and many other things (including events in former Soviet Republic of Ukraine). It’s almost like those that wield power can do what they please, and (re)write rules & laws as they go, and as they see fit.
Good luck with your legal immigration onto the Titanic, though I doubt it guarantees a seat in a lifeboat. Things may get chaotic when real shit hits the fan.
P.S. If you believe that USA is a democracy in any way, shape or form, then I have a bridge and a dam to sell you.
Spoken like a true, honorable, LEGAL immigrant. Nobody ever ask us what’s good and how to fix the problems. Actually, we are the only group that is fastidiously excluded from the debate.
Instead, we are led by morons who have never lived or worked in another country and have no idea of the deep commitment and soul changing inner process that takes place in every LEGAL person who has come. All the ones I know are deeply patriotic and to a person strictly conservative.
Thanks Pierre-Louis for your thoughtful comments. It is deeply saddening to see Americans born in this country behave as if it is no big deal to be invaded by thugs and criminals, as if we don’t have enough of our own to deal with.
One day, I hate to say this, we will simply not recognize this country anymore, from any other banana republic. And it could all have been prevented.
Politicians have used the immigration issue to score political victories, but they will ring hollow and backfire on them, when they can no longer live in the chaos they helped create.
Purged by Weather Underground Barry are HQ bona fides.
The Grand Old Politburo always puts on a good kayfabe with wrestling chairs and learning how to lose from Juan “Songbird” McCain and Mittens Romney, only jobber Pauly Ryan would throw a debate to Brandon.
Good on Iowa and other places that have people who put America first.
“Guys, it’s not your country anymore, it’s ours.”
Chrissy Wallace, December 2012.
Let’s hang around on the dark web..where the censorship is hit an miss.:
Michele Yon = on the immigration of the former USA:
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2023/06/19/yon-facts-on-the-current-invasion-of-the-former-usa-fusa/
“It’s never going to get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got.” I know it’s a cliche’ to say George Carlin nailed it, but he did. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ&pp=ygUgR2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiBhcyBnb29kIGFzIGl0IGdldHM%3D
Incrementally Mexico is taking back her historic lands Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Montana. Observed from Europe with an impartial view on the history of the 19th century I can’t say that the procedure wasn’t somewhat just. Then the USA provoked and won wars against the weaker Mexico to rob these lands.
Larry’s posters – have a nice day and start hating me!
Yes even in Mexican schoolbooks those US states are called « Los Estados Perdidos » meaning The Lost States. So they have not forgotten and won’t.
The problem is that the have abused power and are following a format that benefits them even if it destroys America. They are rootless vagabonds and trade America and its inhabitants like barter, their only allegiance is to the bank wherever it may be.
Larry has international audience. Many of us support Washington D.C. seceding from USA, and becoming a province of Ukraine.
Texas was part of Mexico for 15 years, hardly “historic”. Mexico lost it because their governance was even worse than DC’s.
Hating is a waste of time.
“To be ignorant is no sin, afterall everyone is born ignorant; but to remain stupid requires effort.”
Benjamin Franklin
California, too, has little history of ever having been part of Mexico. It’s more accurate to say we stole California from the Indians. They did end up with the casinos, though.
“… Mexico … historic lands …Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Montana.”
This is transparently incorrect. None of these lands are ‘historically’ Mexican. Spanish missions are not the same thing as the establishment of functioning Mexican civilization. A few Mexican settlers living in fortified encampments trying to ranch without getting scalped by Amerindians who were there before them is not functioning Mexican civilization. Anyone can make a claim to land. “MARS IS MINE! If you build a city on it, then you have stolen it from me!”
A more correct way to look at it is that there were pre-metalworking and significantly nomadic Amerindians (who are genomically Asian) living on lands that were coveted by both Americans expanding from their east and Mexicans expanding from their south. The way of life of these people was always doomed. Nomadic peoples all over the Earth were eventually conquered by civilizations with organized farming (and thus MUCH higher populations) and metalworking (MUCH better weapons). If it had not been Mexicans or Americans it would have been Russians who had spread across the vast expanse of Siberia and reached Alaska. The Amerindians of North America are unique in that they were the last of their civilizational pattern to fall.
Thus, the people who were living on these lands for many thousands of years were Amerindians, not Mexicans. (Spanish =/ Mexican =/ Amerindian) What is a Mexican? The modern Mexicans are not the same people as the Mexica (they didn’t call themselves Aztecs) whose civilization was centered about the city of Tenochtitlan when Cortez showed up. How did an army of 600 white men (not all of them actual soldiers) conquer and hold an empire of millions? Their metal armor and weapons were one factor, of course. However, they had decisive help from all the other Amerindian peoples who were subjects of the Mexica, and whose children were subject to being tribute for ritual murder and cannibalism. Nothing begets disloyalty in an imperial subject people quite like killing and eating their children.
It was never the Spanish versus the Mexica. It was the Spanish and their numerous native allies against the Mexica. Spanish victory initiated the ethno-formation of the modern Mexican people. The modern Mexican people is an uneven genomic blend of the descendants of the Mexica, the Spaniards, and all the other numerous ethnicities who used to be imperial subjects of the Mexica. The names of the latter can be seen (at least in part) in the names of Mexican states, e.g. Oaxaca. The Mexicans claiming and expanding north into Amerindian territory are thus a synthesis of European and Asian genomic and cultural patterns.
I encourage everyone who wants to understand historical process to read the original source material (warts and all), to the extent possible, because the large majority of modern historians are no different from ‘journalists’ in that they are part of regime media. They lie and spin with the objective of getting paid to serve the oligarchy (with associated social status within their leftist enclaves) rather than striving to walk down the trail of truth as a man should. I recommend Bernal Diaz’s “The Conquest of New Spain” (he was a literate soldier who was there) and our first significant American scholar (along with thermodynamicist J.W. Gibbs) Francis Parkman’s magnificent “France and England in North America” which is substantially based on the massive collection of annual reports every Jesuit missionary sent back to France for many hundreds of years. Read regime history, too, then compare and contrast for insight into the deep conditioning aspect of propaganda necessary for formation of a compliant administrative class for the oligarchy.
Claiming a territory then pushing an army into it may be a prerequisite for building a civilization upon it, but neither the Mexica empire nor modern Mexicans ever constructed the infrastructure of their civilization in “Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, [or] Montana.” The lands encompassed by the boundaries these labels define were inhabited by Amerindian tribes who were in permanent war against each other until Europeans conquered them. Modern Mexico not only has no legitimate (rooted in historicity) claim to them, but the pre-European inhabitants who came into contact with Mexicans rabidly hated them. See Geronimo’s autobiography. Texans were invited in by the Mexican government into the territory now called the State of Texas precisely because the Mexican government could not defend their claim against the Amerindians who lived there, and they wanted Anglos to do it for them.
Moreover, all this kind of talk about ‘claims’ is irrelevant. The land, the lifegiving water upon it, the minerals beneath from which are forged the tools of civilization, belong to whoever successfully kills other claimants to them. This has been true on every square inch of this Earth since the dawn of human sapience. There is no ethnicity living on a patch of this Earth that didn’t vanquish someone who had been living there before. This is true even of the Chinese, the oldest still extent agricultural civilization. Permanent tribal war, permanent clan war, permanent ethnic war, permanent religious war, and permanent race war are threads in the tapestry of tragedy that is human existence. The rest is vapid happy go lucky kumbaya nonsense. There has never been peace on Earth.
If we are ever to break free of this cycle of violence then we must establish boundaries circumscribing peoples that do not get along, and work towards building respect for these borders amongst them all, contemporaneous with vital economic development for everyone. Adequate relief of want and local self rule are the keys to stability and a minimization of violence. Economic development leading to relief of want will never happen under a world ruled by anthropogenic climate change lunatics.
The vision of Soros and fellow travelers, one borderless multicultural world of pre-industrial peasants shorn of their own traditions and culture with population greatly reduced from current numbers, ruled over by governmental and corporate institutions (whose employees live in relative luxury) utterly unaccountable to anyone but their oligarch masters, is going to fail this century. It will almost certainly be accompanied by staggering suffering and death. There are very few on this Earth who want to be ruled over by globalists. Local elites around the world are increasingly not on board with their vision of the future, where they would merely be a more pampered variety of serf, administrating and harvesting the labor from their own people on behalf of someone else.
It is fear of an alternate vision of the future where planetary resources both human and material are not under the control of a transnational planetary oligarchy that motivate the wars that globalists are waging on those who refuse to surrender. Western conflict with Russia and China is one aspect. Propaganda operations from people like Thomas, to whom this long comment is a response, are another. Thomas’ objective is the delegitimization of European existence. If the delegitimization campaign were confined to Americans, that would one thing. However, all Europeans including those who never had colonies or empires are under cultural attack by the unholy alliance of internationalist communism and internationalist corporatism (globalism).
Our countries including our militaries and our financial systems have been turned into the launching pad (or pirates’ coves) for globalist conquest of the world. The European left appears to be almost completely on board with this. However, this globalist project is falling apart and they want to make safe their most valued imperial possessions (our countries) against change from below. The destruction of European identity and nationality is part of it. Another part is the replacement of European populations within European civilizations by non-Europeans for purposes of constraining potential change from below by pitting the replacements and those being replaced against each other in their fake democracies. While everyone can be counted on to look out for their own short-term self-interests, it is in everyone’s interest to be sure that pursuit of short-term interest does not blind us to our collective long-term interests of not allowing a great evil to take control over humanity.
@ Horace,
excellent comment, and the reason for the unbridled immigration from the muslim countries is because muslims aren’t rational thinkers but pig ignorant followers of a brain dead cult. So the powers that be, think that islam is best for serfs, since 50% of population (females) are reduced to the level of animals( woman’s intelligence is half of a man). Secondly, USA and gang have been encouraging division among countries that they feel might be slightly adversarial. I’m from Punjab in India. We had the separatist movement for sikhs(khalistan) wreak havoc on peace here. That failed. Recently 3 high ranking khalistan people were eliminated, one each in Pakistan, UK and canada. Good times ahead, it’s not the same India of gandhi anymore. Gandhi was a charlatan, a british stooge. we are still paying for trusting that scoundrel.
You must have gone to a public school to believe that silliness about Mexico owning anything.
Larry, I am a regular reader of your intelligent opinions, however, I believe that your friendship and sympathy for those Iowa legislators weigh more on this issue than your in-depth knowledge of the situation and the structural measures to correct it. I agree with the defense of people, whether they are migrants with or without papers, and I am against human traffickers. Human trafficking should be punished, but not migration.
Focusing on the causes that cause thousands of people to leave their countries and seek work or refuge in the US, Canada or even Mexico, is more humane and more rational. The US government spends billions of dollars in Ukraine and thousands of people die, but it would be better if it at least fulfilled the promise to invest the meager amount of millions of dollars in the creation of jobs in Central American countries (the largest source of migrants) or end blockade measures or sanctions against other Latin American countries. That would give better human results.
Mr. Villamar, let me guess first, that you are a Catholic, right? How do I know that? Because your so called Pope is the one preaching for open borders and compassion for illegal immigrants, while he lives in a city with walls surrounding it that are 18 feet thick and 35 feet high.
While it is true that we should love our neighbor, a country is not like a mother’s heart, that is opened for anybody, nor should it give its wealth for people who came from abroad, at the expense of its own. Jesus Himself said: “it is not fair to take the bread from the children and give it to the dogs.”
It is incumbent on our leaders to care for their citizens, not for those who break our laws, enter illegally and then proceed to put a financial strain on the budgets of local communities.
Secondly, as it is true of most Latin American countries, Mexicans have always relied on their government to do everything for them, rather than to shape their countries themselves, like Americans (North Americans) have historically done.
It is not up to the US to create good paying jobs, in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc, so they don’t end up here. It is up to the people of those countries, to roll their sleeves up and change things themselves.
Now, I will give it to you that the US has, in many ways, contributed to the dire situation many countries, much like Ukraine, find themselves in right now, but it is the leaders of those countries (mostly corrupt) who allow the US to do so.
Why do you think Russia went to war? To stop the encroachment of the West upon their borders.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I repeat that the only way to stop the invasion of the US by illegal migrants is for Americans to compell their governments to stop the vulturistic imperialism of raping and pillaging and destablising the poor countries.
How can a people watch unconcerned as their CIA and other agencies (like the IMF and the sadly-misnamed World Bank) destablize and foist inhumane socio-economic policies on other people, only to lament loudly the victims of their goverments’ policies seek refuge in their country.
To paraphrase JFK: Those who made living in Latin America impossible, makes illegal migration to the US inevitable.
Succinctly put. The migration is a symptom. Concentrating on the symptom only wastes resources.
However, people must also stay in their home and fight for their right to live decent lives. This means educating themselves and also does often mean overthrowing their own collaborator elites.
Hopefully, with the inevitable advent of the multipolar world, we will see the process of development accelerate in the global south.
This. Surprising that even the smart people (smart enough to be attracted to this blog} are propagandized so much that they do not get the obvious.
Femi,
The US should stop its perfidy, I agree. That would not, however, end the flow of would-be immigrants. There will always be poorer countries south of the US border – and elsewhere. Some peoples and cultures don’t do well at creating wealth, and wealth is not merely extracted, it is also created. Countries like South Korea and Japan aren’t blessed with abundant natural resources, but they have created wealthy societies. Not all poor countries are poor because of colonialism or exploitation by Europeans. And now people from throughout the world are traveling to Mexico to walk into the US and claim refugee status.
Thank You Larry, for sharing a story of hope. About a man of Moral Courage, showing us how it’s done.
so a political side wants mexicans to go in, the other one wants to wage a war against mexico. it’s probable that both results will be achieved, though contradictoires. and rhe funny thing is that voth dem and reps agree about financial capitalism, that’s the main reason either for mass migration, and for war with other countries. good look kerping looking at finger and not looking at the moon, what can go wrong?
Alastair Crooke of the Strategic Culture Foundation has published an article https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/06/19/an-unfolding-tragedy-the-impossibility-of-doing-anything-other/ with the title ‘An Unfolding Tragedy: The Impossibility of Doing ‘Anything Other’ ‘, which applies IMHO both to the situation at the US-Mexico border as well as the situation in Ukraine.
The frenzied state of mind which causes: ” Simply said, the Permanent State lacks the courage to take hard decisions” (quote from Alastair Crooke’s article) reminds me of Luke 8: 26-39, of the devils that force a herd of pigs to run down a hill and drown in a lake, make it impossible for them of Doing ‘Anything Other’.
The USSA is quickly becoming Mexico, an oligarch with a bunch of peasants. And our dumbass leaders are more concerned with Ukraine’s boarders than our own.
Alex- ‘When I was a boy . . many yrs ago’, the first time I visited the uSA I was surprised at the number of people who only spoke Spanish (Texas) and more than half the tv progs were in espagnol. Then I went to Florida! Last, recent trip to the Colony it was worserer.
And Britain will be a muslim country in twenty years or so. Already the permanent suntan brigade has taken over the parliament – led by Maharaja Ritchie. Mohommad and its variations for last 10 -15 yrs are the most common / popular infants ‘baptism’ / registered names in GB.
Brit Troops in the Second World were called Tommies. Today they are called Mo s.
This exercise looks like an attempt to put a Band-Aid on a gaping wound, while a mad man with an axe is making another swing.
People who live by the border know the USs dirty secret all too well. I’m not hearing any discussion about the main problem. Just about the symptoms which include the drugs and human trafficking. US Customs relax the inspections during harvest season in order that the undocumented peasants arrive to harvest our crops. Our own migrant work force, the hobos wasn’t profitable enough for the oligarchs. American citizens might have some slight clout which could affect their bottoms line. Grapes of Wrath. So they implemented a completely disposable labor force which is ensconced in American law. Something similar seems to be going on in the EU. Same oligarchs. It is occasionally challenged, just like the USs forever war policies. And with the same results.
Can we file a complaint in Iowa against the Biden regime for perpetrating these crimes and have them arrested?
The Republicans do not want to shut the border. That is free slave labor for their Chamber of Commerce supporters. That is the dirty secret of immigration. Why do you think nothing was done when Trump had the House and the Senate? The Republicans will posture and crow and pass bills that go to die as they hold the House. If some act of God gave us all three pillars of power back? NOTHING would happen.
And there is a pillar of good news here. I realize it is an illegal invasion that is bringing Fentanyl and disease. But it is also bringing workers. Every other society in the world (except Africa) is facing demographic collapse. We are getting mainly Catholic Hispanics. Who want to work. They want to buy a house and a pickup truck. They want kids, and go to church.
Count your blessings. You could be getting black Muslims like Europe is. Who will never work. Who will never assimilate.
Our invaders arent Africans. Thats the only bit of good news. Otherwise they are still parasitic third worlders who will vote reliably leftist.
I feel you brother. But Catholic Hispanics aren’t exactly on board with transgender, abortion America. If the Repukes had a fucking brain, they would be courting them heavily. Give them work cards, and make them pay taxes. Citizenship after so many years. And fucking hard prison if you don’t follow the rules. In other words, a pipe dream
Putting human traffickers in prison only punishes the taxpayers who must pay $40,000+ per inmate per year to maintain them. A swift death penalty is much more just and effective!!
I think it’s the same logic as importing north africans into white, Lutheran sweden. Create chaos. Our rulers are the ‘lords of chaos’. It’s all they can see to do anymore.
I’m starting to wonder if it is the ‘Israelization of the west’. At least the Izzies were honest about it; they ‘ want to reduce surrounding arab countries to constantly warring tribes’!
The Darrian Gap
Michael Yon is a veteran war reporter. He publishes on several websites, and also randomly.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2023/06/19/yon-facts-on-the-current-invasion-of-the-former-usa-fusa/
https://www.michaelyon-online.com/Michael-Yon/Michael-s-Dispatches/
The NGO’s are getting federal funding…which leads to mission creep.
Once Nancy Pelosi described the method to illegally surmount participation in our work force as a “human right”, I knew I’d come full circle on twenty years of opposing illegal immigration.
I worked in the Painter’s Union, An AFL-CIO affiliate, one of the biggest supporters of the DNC and their goal to upend the voter demographic in the USA.
Our invaders arent Africans. Thats the only bit of good news. Otherwise they are still parasitic third worlders who will vote reliably leftist.
Lived in Arizona for 10 years. I could never stay outside in that heat. Wow! What an inspiring story for all of you. We need you desperately in the days to come. Please also adopt others who need to learn the ropes!
Sandy Rinaldi, Arkansas, US Army veteran 1971 to 1974, today 20 JUN 23
If they were serious about stopping human trafficking, they’d start by visiting a few of the meatpacking pla nts in Iowa and asking workers for their papers.
The best way to stop the flow of illegal migrants is to cut off the jobs attracting them.