Why do Mexico’s children seek US ‘social justice’?

2^nd in a series on US border security and immigration

Border Patrol agents honor fellow agents killed in the line of duty. [Photo by US Border Patrol; May, 2010; Barry Bahler.] In the U.S., there’s a constant stream of foreign citizens pouring across the border as Mexico’s children seek social justice in the U.S. simply because there isn’t much justice at all in their own country. The government pegged the number of Mexican illegals in the U.S. at 6.5 million in 2010. The number is a best guess estimate because there’s no way to tell for sure.

The Government Accountability Office said there’s an average number of 8 arrests per “undocumented alien,” said Newsmax.

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Mexico exodus: Foreign policy disaster for the U.S.

Memin Penguin, a character created by a Mexican artist, perceived as racist-based in the U.S., is still popular in Mexico.You can’t cover politics without noticing a steady stream of news releases and policy statements on what wonks and pundits call immigration. Left leaners paint the millions entering the U.S. with one brush—humble farm workers hoping to improve their lot. Right leaners see the influx as an invasion made up of people no one can document.

Commerce chambers and advocates for the hotel, ski resort and construction sectors among others see foreign citizens who come here to work (legally or illegally) as taking jobs Americans won’t take. Remember the hoopla in 2005 when Mexico president Vicente Fox said, “[I]legals do the work that ‘not even black people want to do,’ implying that African Americans make up the lowest rungs of society. “ [The San Francisco Chronicle]

Fox was criticizing citizens of Arizona who were concerned about the deluge of foreign citizens in their state. The Chronicle reminded us Mexico unveiled postage stamps about a month later “featuring none other than a black character like something out of a minstrel show.”

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US aims for better benefits, medical care for illegals

Part 1 in a series on immigration
By Kay B. Day

A CBO border patrol agent pats down a suspect prior to returning him to Mexico. Curiously, CBO recently announced that in a case unrelated to this photo, the Brownsville office (Tex.) recently intercepted a shipment of thousands of scorpions and ants.[Photo by Gerald L. Nino, US Customs and Border Protection.]Democrats have garnered votes from advocacy groups who want no restrictions on immigration, and proposals from the Dept. of Homeland Security may somewhat satisfy those advocacy groups and organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union. The Los Angeles Times said DHS secretary Janet Napolitano plans for the department “to create a system to better identify medical and mental health issues and to help manage care.” The Times summed up the approach: “Nonviolent immigrant detainees could be held in converted hotels, nursing homes or placed in electronic ankle bracelets for monitoring as part of a series of reforms planned for the nation's detention system…”

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Pelosi implies more than 70 percent of Americans 'un-American,' encourages breaking federal laws

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is top of the lead list at present because she called people who want America’s immigration laws enforced “un-American.” Pelosi was speaking at an event organizers say aimed at putting a “human face” on the immigration debate. For most of us, immigration is at the heart of the American melting pot. But illegal entry into the country is not acceptable because such an act not only undermines US law, it creates in these troubled times a security issue and a drain on federal dollars. Illegal entry is not the same as immigration.

I’ve often mentioned the predicament—how do you differentiate those who come here without malice from those intent on harm? And the answer is clear-cut. You can’t because there is no documentation. Another question arises when financials are considered. Is it right to promise some Americans a tax increase, but to use federal dollars to assist those who have in fact broken our nation’s laws, rather than applying those dollars to legal citizens? Does the government have a right to extract tax dollars and give those dollars to people who have broken federal law? Note: I realize that question may also apply to some who serve in our current Congress, but that is an argument for another essay. So how do the numbers crunch?

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