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2010-04-01 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-04-01 02:27|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Time to institute Pershing's measures again. Its a shame we don't have a President who has the security of the nation in mind.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-01 08:41|| 2010-04-01 08:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The states will have to do what the federal government won't. Mexico is a failed drug state. Time to treat it as such.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-04-01 10:10|| 2010-04-01 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 There needs to be some kind of coalition of citizens from California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona that patrol the border and assist federal and state law enforcement that are assigned to the border. They can call it, I don't know, the Minutemen or something like that. The people would surely support a group of average Americans that help keep out as many criminals coming over the border from Mexico as they can (sarcasm). Either way, D.C. doesn't give two shits about the Western United States. It will have to be a self-starter kind of mission. (was in Downtown L.A. museums yesterday... for every Mexican adult there was a quintuplet of children following with at least two of them in strollers). Seriously, it's getting really old already.

Posted by Jack Thrinetle4718 2010-04-01 11:58|| 2010-04-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 That border falls under specific responsibility of the federal government. They are so busy playing nanny asshat meddelers to do their specified tasks.

The US federal government must handle this with serious manner or the states there should look at sceeding.

Posted by newc 2010-04-01 13:10|| 2010-04-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Seceding isn't necessary. When the federal government doesn't handle a responsibility in a manner satisfactory to the state most impacted, the state should simply step up to the plate.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-01 14:35|| 2010-04-01 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Very well, TR. But it couldn't hurt.

Posted by newc 2010-04-01 15:14|| 2010-04-01 15:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Well we are just about done in Iraq and Mexico does have oil....

Logistics would be simpler, as well as the cultural issues. Since one poll showed 60% of Mexicans wanted to move to the US perhaps we should just move the border. Call it a territory for a couple of decades until the place is fixed up and rule of law starts to set in. Then let them decide if they want independence or if they'll take on English as a language.

Couldn't be much worse than what's brewing now.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-04-01 19:51|| 2010-04-01 19:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Couldn't be much worse than what's brewing now.

Oh yes it could. When W. Germany unified with the basket-case economy of E. Germany, it took on an economic albatross that dragged it into a decade-long stagnation. Mexico's a _lot_ poorer than E. Germany, and its oil reserves aren't that huge.

In any case, the oil is monopolized by a corrupt, extremely inefficient corporatist structure comprising politicians, a massive union, and an entire panoply of social welfare organizations that taken together is a state unto itself. Try unwinding THAT statist monster.

Better to take a chapter from Jack Pershing, and halt low-end unskilled immigration, period. No more mexification of the US.

Posted by lex 2010-04-01 20:43|| 2010-04-01 20:43|| Front Page Top

#9 No more mexification of the US

Agreed. A thousand percent. Mexico is a thorn in our side if you please.

Posted by Richelieu 2010-04-01 20:50|| 2010-04-01 20:50|| Front Page Top

#10 There are over 106,000,000 people in Mexico. By Cook County rules, that would account for about 250,000,000 new Democrat voters.

Posted by rwv 2010-04-01 23:27|| 2010-04-01 23:27|| Front Page Top

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