We give them money, the crime continues
U.S. border governors–except for Janet Napolitano, who shrewdly claims a scheduling conflict– are meeting with their counterparts from six Mexican states in Mexico City for discussions regarding combating crime and enhancing border security amid increasing drug cartel violence in Mexico.
Betch’a a wall isn’t on the agenda.
The governors of California, Texas and New Mexico plan to “offer support” to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his crackdown against the drug trade according to an Associated Press report.
Of course, Calderon, who has termed America as “swaggering, macho, and anti-Mexican.” wants a constant flow of unconditional U.S. dollars, some of which states have diverted to fighting our own crime problems–much stemming from the relentless influx of illegals into our country from his.
Meanwhile, President Bush has urged Congress to approve the first $500 million installment of a proposed $1.4 BILLION law enforcement aid package known as the Merida Initiative to combat increasingly violent drug crime in Mexico. The United States is incomprehensively funding a wall for Mexico’s southern border with Central America while leaving America’s border looking like Swiss cheese.
What a deal for the taxpaying citizens!
May 29, 2008 at 1:46 pm
It’s called extortion.
May 29, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Napolitano is nobody’s fool. She was wise to take a powder on this one. Who wins here other than Calderon?
May 29, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Thanks for telling it like it is. We, the American citizen taxpayers, are being played for suckers, with Bush leading the pack. Our senators Kyl and McCain unbelievably drafted the legislation to send us all down the river, and Flake and Shadegg are right in sync. I will never be able to figure it out, but those are the facts.
Why are we paying billions of our dollars for a wall to protect Mexico from their southern neighbors when we should be constructing a wall to protect ourselves from our southern neighbor–who has no regard for our rule of law or way of life?