Lack of media coverage is such a good point. A few months ago Glenn Beck was really going after the border issues; then he got side tracked with the elections. It is his intent to come back to this issue, he has a member of his staff who's job it is to do nothing but read the newspapers of all the border towns to find these stories. He called a person in Laredo I believe it was, who had a family member kidnapped. He called to tell them he hasn't forgotten and will be on this. The person broke down crying, he was the only media person who had called.
It's unbelieveable the amount of deaths just barely over the border, the violence from the Cartels. It makes Iraq seem like Disney. Why don't we hear about the kidnapped americans? The girls given to a drug lord as a gift. Heads on fence posts, boddies thrown to the side of the road wrapped up with trash bags and duck tapes, barrels full of body parts, heads rolled into a disco club.
Now lets talk about the Mexican army, some of you have and some of you probably haven't heard of the Zetas. It is basicly a Special Forces group, part of the Mexican army that we assisted with training and supplied equipment to this group to help stop drugs at the border. These guys were the best. Unfortunately the Cartels pay more and now work for them, they don't operate only on the Mexican side either.
I was in a mild argument the other day with someone, they were bringing up the lack of diversity in Maine, how he had been to other parts of the country and seen these migrant workers. That our country is built on them, they are good people wanting a better life., how he doesn't want to pick vegetables. First of all I don't believe there are any jobs americans won't do for a fair price. Next, what does the statue of liberty say?
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door
Come though the door, let us check out your background and your health, after that, welcome to America. If you come here illegaly, get the hell out. At the same time let the person who employed the sit and think about it in jail for a little while. We need to set an example and get employers to stop taking advantage of these people. Get these Teenagers off the couch, put them to work instead. Bring back our manufacturing, when China sets off World War III we won't have anything to retool like we did in WWII, we'll be screwed.
Lets not forget about one of the guys in the article who said this country is theirs and they're taking it back. This isn't the first time I had heard that a lot of Mexicans believe the South West is rightfully theirs. That would help explain why so many of them won't learn english and fly the Mexican flag instead of the American one. If you want to come here for a better life then become an american, fly our flag and learn our language.
I guess this makes me a Racist, Hate Monger. If so, then I don't care what I'm called.