There is No Wall in El Paso

Mr. Trump. There is no wall in El Paso.  Its a fence !
  

People are fleeing once again. They are fleeing hunger,  and violence  and official corruption. It is important to separate  Immigration and Refugees.  They have different laws applying to them. 

These migrants from are making their way north to the U.S. border to seek asylum, in search of  freedom from the poverty and violence that has been perpetuated by U.S. imperialism and neoliberal capitalism. 

Those eligible for refugee status should be admitted as required by the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Migrants and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  (1946) which the U.S. government helped to draft.   860,000 on back list. 

Trump  claims  there is crisis of criminal gangs at the border.  Somewhat. But, not near what he claims.

The drug traffic at the border  is not caused by migration.  The drugs are brought in by gangs with trucks and tunnels. A wall will not stop the traffic.  It does need to be stopped. 

The issue is the Wall. There is not a dispute about the need for more border enforcement and protection.  The conflict is will a wall make the difference.  Contrary to what he said, there is no wall in El Paso.  It is a fence. 

  A  Wall will not stop drug trafficking. It will not even slow it down.  The well-funded and increasingly sophisticated cartels are not going to be stopped by a wall.  The overwhelming majority of illicit traffic flows through ports of entry—not in the vast stretches of land in between where any wall would be built.

Refugees are not the source of drugs.  There is a failure of drug enforcement. 

Mexico 2014/2015 Who are the terrorists ?

1. The Mexican and U.S. tax payers pay billions of dollars for the drug war, mainly to military contractors, to no avail and creating no improvement for either country’s national security. As Musa al-Gharbi wrote for Al Jazeera:

“In 2013 drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people in Mexico alone, and another 60,000 from 2006 to 2012 — a rate of more than one killing every half hour for the last seven years. What is worse, these are estimates from the Mexican government, which is known to deflate the actual death toll by about 50 percent.”

  Alfredo Estrella, Agence France-Presse/GETTY IMAGES

2. The U.S. military and intelligence communities collaborate with and empower acorrupt narco-state in Mexico.

1                                             Daniel Aguilar/GETTY IMAGES

3. The DEA collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel, providing them with support such asvisas and legal access to move drugs into the U.S., including inside of a cocaine-packed 747 cargo plane, in exchange for “intel” on the other cartels.

Mexican youth call for demilitarization of Drug Policy.

Mexican Youth Declare National Emergency, Call for Immediate Demilitarization and Drug Policy Reform

Argel Acuña comes from the central state of Michoacán—a hotspot for Mexico’s raging drug war. Along with a few hundred other young people from throughout the country, he traveled to Cuernavaca last weekend for a conference whose name explains the urgency of the call: “Youth in the National Emergency.”

“The idea of this forum is to come together on the national level and demand that this situation of insecurity be reversed,” Argel explains. He notes that social organizations in Michacan are getting involved after seeing the way militarization has affected their activities and daily life. Section 18 of the teachers’ movement will be participating in the mobilizations this weekend, along with other organizations.

The April 29 youth meeting was an important preparatory step for the demonstrations this weekend. Julian Contreras of Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez, explained to the Americas Program that the idea is to find common ground and set aside differences, to be able to build a broad popular base among youth, but with clear demands. We have our differences, he notes, but we know how to work together on what we agree on.
See photo gallery of the march here; http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/05/3606486/march-to-stop-mexico-violence.html?mi_rss=Photo%20Galleries

The strategy of unity in diversity is one that the Mexican left has had trouble with in the past. But this youth gathering is a far cry from the traditional party formations. Discussions are open and respectful, sophisticated in their political analysis and passionate in their personal commitments.

Mexico- 200 years of independence

Mexican Bicentennial Falls Short on Fervor

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD New York Times.

MEXICO CITY — There are the bicentennial buses. Bicentennial roads. A bicentennial marathon. A bicentennial song. The bicentennial digital library. A bicentennial video game. Even a bicentennial bird, the mountain trogan, and plant, the owl agave. And of course the bicentennial fireworks extravaganza, planned to be the largest the country has ever seen.

What appears to be missing is bicentennial enthusiasm.

By accident of timing, as Mexico approaches the 200th anniversary on Thursday of the start of its rebellion against Spain, the national mood has sunk into its deepest funk in years.

A four-year drug war that has taken more than 28,000 lives has seeped into previously quiet corners of the country. Just Sunday night in the central city of Puebla, heavily armed marines captured Sergio Villarreal, known as El Grande, the leader of the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel.

The bloodiest town, Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, has canceled celebratory bicentennial fireworks out of safety concerns. So have at least two dozen other towns. Major commemorative public works projects, including the bicentennial monument itself, the Estela de Luz, a 30-story quartz obelisk in the capital, will not be completed in time for the big day.

Drug money and the Mexican government

From Wikipedia
Zhenli Ye Gon (Traditional Chinese: 龔 禎利 葉[1]) (born January 31, 1963, Hong Kong[2]) is a Mexican business man of Chinese origin, accused of trafficking pseudoephedrine into Mexico from Asia. He is the legal representative of United Pharm Chem.
In an interview with the news agency AP, Mr Ye Gon stated that he kept the money found recently in his house in Mexico, which is the largest illegal fortune ever found in the world, after having been blackmailed by Mexican Secretary of Labor Javier Lozano. According to Mr Ye Gon, the money's ultimate destination was the presidential campaign of Felipe Calderón, the current president held by many to be spurious. In this respect the money scandal has become a nightmare for the current presidency, which is still under attack by the opposition under charges of committing fraud in the 2006 general election against Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
According to Mr Ye Gon, Mr. Lozano told him he should "cooperas o cuello" (literally, cooperate or neck), by this meaning if he did not co-operate then he would be killed.
The fortune, found by the police on March 15, 2007 at his residence at Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico City included the following:
205 million American dollars
18 million Mexican pesos
200,000 Euros
113,000 Hong Kong dollars
11 centenarios (highly valued Mexican gold and silver coins)
A great amount of jewels, of unknown value
Confiscated along with the money were also:
2 Mexican style dwellings of approximately 20 million pesos
1 lab in construction of unknown value