Reply #66: Hello!

[ProSense]

Did you read this part of the OP:

Never mind that a FBI intelligence report of the Joint Terrorism Task Force reported that an illegal human-smuggling ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for more than a year after reckoning that it was more lucrative (at $20K-$25K a pop) to smuggle Iraqis than Mexicans.

And, let's not take into account experiences and warnings the Congressional Research Service documented, or the actions Congress took:


* On March 23, 2005, George Bush hosted meetings in Texas with President Fox and Prime Minister Martin, in which the leaders established the trilateral “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America.” The SPP will seek to advance the common security and the common prosperity of the countries through expanded cooperation and harmonization of policies.

* According to the Department of Homeland Security, from FY2001 to FY2005, there were 144 border incursions by the Mexican military. Dialogue with the Mexican military has reduced the frequency of such incursions by half. (Never mind that we're "dialoguing" with bordering military invaders but can't do that with Middle Eastern nations with disparate political views, whom we would rather provoke). A recent Mexican military border incursion netted US law enforcement 1,400 pounds of pot, later disavowed by the Mexican government as "drug traffickers, not Mexican military. (OK, pare that back to 143 border incursions, for the sake of "diplomacy"...)

* On January 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the discovery of a tunnel from Tijuana to a warehouse in San Diego. Mexican officials seized 2 tons of marijuana, and U.S. officials seized 200 pounds of marijuana. The 2,400-foot long tunnel is the longest tunnel ever found at the the U.S.-Mexican border.

* In testimony before the Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security on February 7, Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar indicated that assaults against border patrol agents are increasing. In FY2005, 778 border patrol agents were assaulted, and 192 have been assaulted in FY2006. This is a significant increase from FY2004, when 374 border patrol agents were assaulted.

* National Intelligence Director John Negroponte named Mexico in his Annual Threat Assessment for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as a country of concern regarding the capacity of drug trafficking organizations to undermine already weak state authority.

* On December 16, 2005, the House passed H.R. 4437 (Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005) that would, among other things, strengthen border security, compel employers to use a pilot system to check for employment eligibility, mandate retention of illegal immigrants, make it a crime to be in the United States illegally or to assist illegal aliens, and require the deployment of a fence and surveillance equipment along the Mexico-U.S. border.

* On May 12, 2005, (Former) President Fox stated that his government would protest the recently passed immigration measures in the FY2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, saying that “it is useless to pursue walls, barriers, and the use of force and violence.”



And the current Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, recently reinforced that assertion, saying that would continue to "energetically protest unilateral actions" of the U.S. Congress on the immigration front that "exacerbate the persecution of undocumented Mexicans in the U.S." He boasted that Mexican consulates in the United States have been fortified to protect the rights of millions of Mexicans living there illegally.

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

It's not about a Bush-supported invasion of our national sovereignty to ingratiate him to his corporate masters in contravention of our national Constitution, though, or as his father, Bush, Sr. asserted, "the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order," it's about "free trade," right?

What the hell does that have to do with trucking and unions?