We had a great time down here and I got to talk to a bunch of new family members. Some of the small talk we had of course wandered into the topic of border violence and life on the border. I have written many articles about this topic because I am very worried about the situation down there. I always love hearing stories from people who actually live down there, especially Hispanics. People who do not live down there need to know these stories from people living there. For some reason the media has never really fully covered all of the violence and corruption that is happening right here in America because it has spilled over from Mexico.
I am of course not going to list any names or locations because, well, these people live down there and, as some of you know, drug cartel members like to kill people down there for small things like anti-drug cartel tweets. This is what the border residents who I talked to had to say:
Kidnappings are a Common Occurrence
Kidnappings happen on both sides of the border and they happen all the time. One man I talked to said that just a few months ago his grandmother's 3 brothers were kidnapped. His grandmother lost everything, even her ranch, trying to get them back. 2 of them were released back. One of them died.
Many Politicians and Sheriff/Law Enforcement Officers are Corrupt and Controlled by Drug Cartels
I know that there are some very good law enforcement officers down here risking their lives for what is right, but I was not surprised to hear that there was corruption down here among some of them. Drug Cartels pump their money into elections to elect people friendly to them. I was pretty surprised to hear how rampant this corruption is though. Apparently, just in the one Texas County I was in, 3 different people recently elected as Sheriff for this county have been arrested for all kind of things from drug smuggling and even murder. Their jail time was minimal and one even got only house arrest.
Also, one man I spoke to was a paralegal and he said it is not out of the ordinary for him to be in court and see the District Judge tell a cocaine dealer to just don't do it again.
Border Violence, Gun Battles, Thousands Murdered a Year
It is normal down there to wake up in the middle of the night because of explosions and Drug Cartel gun battles. These massive battles happen all the time right on the Mexican side of the border, and many of them even spill over the border resulting in bullets coming over here and law enforcement having to respond to push back the violence that has crossed over during a battle. Battles are not the only type of violence that has spilled over. There and numerous murders and drug cartel killings that happen right here on the American side because the Mexican cartels are continuing to expanding their business (even entire operations) to our side of the border. These drug cartel leaders are even easy to spot. One woman I talked to said she saw a man get into his SUV at Target. He had a dozen men surrounding him as he got into his SUV and they saw when the SUV opened the back door that the SUV had been bullet proofed.
And of course there are the mass murders. Thousands of murders that are happening each year. Many are gruesome with people getting their heads cut off and their limbs torn off. More people have died in drug cartel mass murders in the last year than the total of soldiers who have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the last decade. It is a bloodbath down there and some cities cannot even have a Police Chief for more than a few days before he gets gunned down.
Illegal Immigrants Living Good off of American Tax Dollars via Programs like Food Stamps
One Hispanic woman told me that something needs to be done about all the free money that is going to illegal immigrants to pay for everything from food to healthcare. She said that all an illegal has to do is have a kid over here and then they automatically get free money from us. She said that it really bothers her when she sees people who she knows to be an illegal immigrant living the good life off of food stamps. She works hard but cannot afford to buy expensive food. Her kids will be in line at the grocery store and they will see illegal immigrants who are well fed with large baskets of expensive food items like steaks. Her kids will ask her why they cannot eat food like that. The people with the expensive food will then pull out a lone star card and pay for the food using our tax money. She says that people getting fed by the government should only be allowed to get basic foods and if they want the good food then they need to get a job to pay for the good stuff.
More Food Stamp Fraud - Buying Booze and Feeding Pets
This woman went on to tell me of all the different times she has seen illegal immigrants commit food stamp fraud. One man at the grocery store tried to buy dog food with food stamps. The cashier told him that he could not get dog food with a star card. The man got angry and did not believe it. He then told his son to just go get some fajita steak meat that they would cook and feed the dog with. Then there was another man who was having a party. He wanted to get booze for the party so he got someone in the store who was buying expensive food and he paid for their food with his lone star card and in return the other people used their cash to buy him the beer.
Hispanic Americans want the Border to be Secured and a Crack Down on Illegal Immigration that is Draining our System and Money. Some Suggested a type of Guest Worker Program.
One person who I talked to said that about 11 years ago they knew of Mexicans who were cleared as non criminals and were put on buses every day and brought into America to work then went back home at night. They did not try to sneak over here live here or try to drain free money from the government. They just came and worked and went back to Mexico. This person I talked to suggested that there would be much less of a problem with illegal immigrants coming over here and draining our system if we secured the border and then gave the Mexicans who just want to work the ability to live in Mexico and just cross the border legally to come work in a legal, tax-paying capacity and then the go back home to Mexico every night. She said that many of the illegal immigrants here now would go back to Mexico with their family if they were allowed to just come over every day to work and go back home at night. The Hispanics down here that I talked to are against Amnesty from what I could tell, but they do believe that something needs to be done to allow people to come here and work because they say that it would really help with the illegal immigration problem with the people who just want to work. They of course were against anyone becoming citizens without going through the process like they did. They were also of course in favor of securing the border to keep the bad guys from coming over. They did not want free handouts given to people and in fact it ticks them off when they work hard to provide a living and then see illegal immigrants get free stuff. They did not want any Americans, like them, to be put out either so they would want jobs to first be offered to Americans. They did say though that would like to see some kind of guest worker program implemented and the government to crack down on the drug cartel violence and corruption.
We have plenty of visas and migrant worker programs. The problem is they are never enforced and employers do not like paying the taxes and dealing with the other requirements involved.Often times the more labor intensive jobs using illicit labor will end up with workers escaping to cities to work in a chain restaurant with a fake ID. Thus the case for mechanization where possible. Operating under the table and avoiding "hiring Americans" collecting disability or on welfare is the order of the day. The "Texas Solution" is one more scheme we will be hearing about but we need to focus on all the underemployed Americans and non-academic high-school kids pushed into college that should not be there.Those are the workers we need.
ReplyDeleteThe same things happen in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, considered powerful sanctuary cities and cities surrounding large cities are strong santuary cities as well. Incident reporting to the police seems, they never write anything down or keep any reports given to them for records to refer to later. If the incident comes up again, you begin from scratch as police act as though they never heard about it at all. When police turn in information moving it up for an action, it has been found to be incorrect, they refuse to accept corrected information and refuse to talk to a person with corrected information. (This is any city in the state of Texas.) Illegals build houses without needing permits with blasting foreign music for weeks in quiet neighborhoods, if you turn in the noise they find ways to report your home with some nuisance. Foreclosed homes get into their hands, as they build and flip homes at profit. Illegals do most work of carpeting, tile, roofing, plumbing, electricians, deliveries from stores, fast food restaurants, and mostly only illegals do most road work, local, county or DOT associated. To phone most businesses, the county or the state, one must go through spanish FIRST. While they are on the job with a city, when caught speaking hispanic on the job, then when, or if heard, they begin speaking English, or, will never speak at all so not to be caught.
ReplyDeleteSome home owner associations and cities have Lulac as board members thus muffling complaints by home owners, taxpayers, citizens.
Many well-known large businesses seem to be collapsing in their efforts to provide any simple service, taking hours to handle service information - then you later verify changes and they have no information at all about it. Many businesses are too large to correctly handle services any more to homes and apartments without constant inability to use their own system, businesses have too many compartments where no one communicates between compartments for a service - businesses are too far away to understand how to correctly handle any service without long periods of time. We must end global businesses handling home services, and "decentralize" all businesses to bring back to our homes, our jobs and our dollars and stop making foreign countries stronger than our own country on our dimes and jobs, to benefit our communities. No more centralized business services where our jobs and dollars are too far away to provide for any services. (This shocking change was witnessed by all when this large government, too far away, could not respond to hurricane Katrina emergency victims.) It is common to hear at local banks where customers standing in line are speaking spanish as they go about their banking locally to elsewhere, We witness foreign citizens as they sign up for advantage medicare while a group of citizens are signing up with each health care company at local restaurants.
Every month a person pays their bills, but part of every bill every month, goes to foreign business partners, hidden behind an American business name.
The governor and elected ignor being informed.
Have we collapsed?