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Immigration. Aside from the political issues surrounding immigration, I will try to explain why allowing the immigration bills to pass would be a bad thing for the US of A. While allowing immigration to the U.S. has been a hallmark of the American way, it is not the same as it was even 10 years ago. The purpose of immigration nowadays does not have the same purpose it did when people were trying to gain U.S. citizenship for a better way of life. Yes, I realize that people from other countries are trying to enter our country to escape persecution and crime in their perspective countries, but what are they contributing to ours? Are they they just trying to bring their way of life to our neighborhoods for their gain. While many Americans are screaming and yelling to let them in because they are are looking to participate in the American Dream, they are being fooled by the true intentions by many of the so called poor helpless immigrants. My sources at many of the U.S. ports of entry tell me the same thing over and over again. They hear the same sob stories over and over again about just trying to look for work to help their families and the persecution from the cartels and the government. How they just want to earn a decent living, etc, etc. Well, many of these so called immigrants first break the U.S. laws by having themselves smuggled across, and break U.S. laws by crossing illegally and in many cases backpack illegal drugs for extra money instead of the legal route. Then they claim they were forced to do so by the cartels only to find out that they have been busted and deported several times before for doing the same thing at different location. Another purpose for entering the U.S. is to establish transitional contacts and points of distribution (or cells) for future drug shipments as was proven by the latest sting operation in which several illegal immigrants were rounded up by ICE officials all over Texas in December of 2009. All were involved in the drug trade and living in the U.S. illegally, Do you think they were paying taxes like you and me, were they endangering innocent families living next door? Were they contributing to the American way of life like you and I? Are they above the law? Yet, these people who broke our laws to enter our country and dealing in narcotics were receiving free medical care, free schooling for their kids, we were paying for their health care, subsidizing their welfare cards for food because they cannot spend the drug cartel's money on those things or they will be hunted down in our country endangering even more American lives. I and many other U.S. military veterans do not have as good benefits as they do and even get neglected or rejected in some cases and get even better care than we do. We can no longer keep falling for the same sob stories for the sake of political correctness and self righteousness. They've learned to use those virtues against us.
Just as many Islamic radicals have infiltrated our sovereignty by entering our country under false pretenses such as the 9-11 bombers did, The Mexican illegals have learned from that and attempting the same techniques. If you saw an Iranian Islamic radical terrorist entering the U.S. hidden in the undercarriage of a car would you be shocked and scared? Why not a Mexican National with evil intentions who could cause serious mayhem in the U.S. Yes, I know a dirty bomb would be more dramatic than getting our children hooked on drugs and killing a few rivals on our streets would, but only because cases like that don't make the headlines like a bomb would. I think that's only because we have become somewhat desensitized to drug dealers being killed in the streets as opposed to an Islamic terrorist planting a bomb in New York Square. If you don't think that will ever affect you, it will only be a matter of time if you succumb to political correctness and acceptance of outsiders. To address the human side of immigration, Yes. I believe that there are honest hard working Mexican nationals seeking U.S. citizenship that want to contribute to our society because I know a few. But, we cannot continue to fall for the same old sob story and be blinded by self righteousness and political correctness that endanger our American way of life to ease our conscience in the name of acceptance of other cultures and their ways of life.
OK folks before you start calling me a racist or prejudiced against Mexicans, I must state that I am of Mexican decent and 2nd generation American citizen sworn to defend the American way of life. I have chosen to defend the country I have integrated into as my parents have because the USA has provided us with a prosperous life as the U.S. Constitution states. I am just asking that you rethink the issue of politics and "acceptance" and "understanding" over national security and our way of life as our Constitution states it. Our Constitution has made us the most powerful and most desirable country on Earth. Now is no time time to compromise our principles for the sake of false principles of political correctness or politics.

Why is there so much killing going on in Mexico? The answer is in its simplest form is control by intimidation. Although people are killed for various reasons in Mexico, killing has become a tool for the cartels. There are several drug cartels in Mexico and each one of them wants to dominate the lucrative drug routes into the United States. A lot of the violence is now between the Mexican government trying to stop the cartels and cartel against cartel violence. The larger drug cartels are actually organized multi-leveled organizations with a rank and file structure similar to military units with ranks, specific roles, promotions and an internal language and communication system with territories or "plazas", foot soldiers- "sicarios", lookouts- "halcones". It's when one cartel attempts to enter another cartel's territory that the violence starts. Unfortunately, innocent civilians often get caught in the cross fire. Sometimes, the "innocent" taco vendor, taxi driver, shoe shiner, or street beggar is actually a paid "halcon" or lookout that was found out and killed. Sometimes it will be a lieutenant who was passing through but did not announce his arrival in the plaza that gets blown away in a hail of bullets.

To show their enemies how serious they are about protecting their routes, they have resorted to some of the most grisly methods of killing that would nausiate even the most hardened combat veteran or gag a maggot. Everything from cutting up bodies limb by limb to beheadings, and dipping bodies into vats of acid which they proudly post on the internet. I will leave out many of the other gory details they have resorted to. Anything goes and there is no fear of the law since all levels of law enforcement have been infiltrated and subjected to this type of intimidation as many officers have suffered this fate and are seriously out gunned and under trained to handle this type of violence. In some cases, entire police forces have quit or resigned because of the intimidation or unspeakable ways fellow officers have been killed.

The two largest and most powerful drug cartels in Mexico are the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel which currently dominate the routes into California and Texas respectively. Many other smaller aspiring cartels are vying for those same routes. Inspired by the incredible wealth to be made, they will are willing to do whatever it takes to anyone who stands in their way. Add to the mix, the Mexican government's attempt to stop the cartel from enlarging their operations and you can see how the violence can only escalate. Since millions of dollars are at stake, no drug cartel leader is willing to give up the billionaire's lifestyle, or a drug route to anyone, he will continue to order his troops with the promise of wealth to fight to the death to protect his interests.

The problem of violence in the Texas sector has come about because the Gulf Cartel has waged war on it's former enforcement branch, Los Zetas. Los Zetas were formed by ex Mexican military special forces soldiers who deserted for the more lucrative business of drug trafficking. Initially, many of the Zetas were trained by the US Military for the purpose of fighting drug cartels but the Gulf Cartel leader enticed many of the soldiers to work for them as enforcers since they were familiar with the ins and out of counter drug and other special operations techniques. Recruiting them was easy because a cartel leader can easily quadruple a soldier's pay, benefits and status. Los Zetas were initially very effective and helped the Gulf Cartel increase their profits by eliminating many of the Gulf Cartel's enemies and obstacles through technical and tactical know how. One day in early 2010 A Gulf Cartel leader rolled into his plaza in Reynosa, Mexico unannounced or without a Zeta scout being notified and the Gulf Cartel leader was accidentally killed by a Zeta assassin gunman. As cartel rule has it, the killer was to be turned over to the victim's commander for execution regardless of rank or position. The Zeta commander refused to turn over one of his best trained assassins and friend. That was a turning point in the violence in Mexico. That was the day Los Zetas decide it was time to break away from the Gulf Cartel and go at it alone. The next day The Gulf Cartel declared war on Los Zetas who had decide that they would take over the most profitable route into the US for themselves. The Gulf Cartel leader instructed all member of the Gulf Cartel to kill any member of Los Zetas with a reward for a head.
Eventually, the task of killing a highly trained and skilled Zeta became a challenge for poor uneducated, untrained thugs recruited off the streets used to killing Gulf Cartel enemies and policemen for $20.

Los Zetas were now becoming a challenge to the Gulf Cartel and cutting into their profits with the potential of taking over the South Texas routes all together. The Gulf Cartel Leader called upon a longtime rival to join him in an effort to eliminate Los Zetas by convincing him that they would eventually go after the Sinaloa routes as well. The Sinaloa Cartel agreed and formed an alliance with the Gulf Cartel in an effort to eliminate Los Zetas. Thus the war against Los Zetas was been waged along the US/Mexico border with countless innocent Mexican citizens caught in the crossfire of the war between the Gulf Cartel, The Sinaloa Cartel against Los Zetas while the government was trying to eliminate all three.


Next week,

More on Los Zetas on my next post.