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December 22, 2005

Outfoxed

 

 

 

The Jacque Chirac of the West, Vicenté Fox this week threw a temper tantrum, threatening to essentially engage in an act of war (by stirring up populations of illegal Mexican aliens); a war that would last approximately 30 minutes if we’re having a bad day. The reason for his verbal incontinency: the border fence that is planned to go up and end the invasion at America’s Trier.

 

I think Fox is actually a bit frightened, to be honest. I sense more than just a frustrated political agenda at stake here. The Mexican government through corruption and ineptitude has squandered much that came of US investment inside Mexico (and there is a lot of it) and has refused to institute a system ruled by laws rather than crooked men, thus perpetuating the cycle of poverty which allows over half of Mexican citizens to live in horrid conditions. If Mexicans can no longer run away from Fox and the Mexican congress, they will be cornered and forced to bring about change – and at best that means Fox and other polis will find themselves unemployed; at worst something more familiar to local custom since the nation’s departure from Castilian rule.

 

Fox is an easy target too: Fox himself is not of native Mexican lineage; rather as half Irish and half Spanish, he stands out undeniably as part of the long-standing Spanish-Mexican elite ruling class that is so much to blame for the state of affairs in that country from the time of Santa Anna to this day.

 

While I think we should have a program in the US that allows Mexican workers to be vetted at the border, put on a bus and transported to growers and other temporary employers, Fox will stand for nothing more than amnesty. Fortunately, our sovereign country is not in the hands of a foreign despot and our Congress has just told Mr. Fox where he may go.

 

There has also been a little bit of hypocrisy on Fox's part: Mexico has had its army placed on its southern frontier with Guatemala for years now. The troops are known to shoot-to-kill and abuse illegal border crossers:

 

Although the Mexican government has complained repeatedly about the treatment of its own people by U.S. authorities who arrest them as undocumented immigrants after crossing Mexico's northern border, [Guatemalan shelter operator Amilka]Vasquez said [Mexico's] own human rights authorities have done little to look into the Central Americans' grievances.

 

What Fox and the other corrupt officials in Mexico are now seeing is what I told you was inevitable several months ago. We Americans like to make things happen, which is really another thing which has unfortunately heretofore separated us from certain third-world regimes.

 

We do wish Mexico the best – it is in everybody’s national interest – but Mexico will never be healthy until it faces its own demons rather than running away from them, tied to them at the ankle.

 

 

RELATED: Blogbat Archives April 11: “They Just Want to Work: Three Key Ingredients to a Healthy Border Policy”

 

Posted by Martin at December 22, 2005 02:52 PM

Comments

I have a plan. For every illegal who comes here, we reciprocate by sending a liberal to Mexico. Dean, Pelosi, Kennedy, et al, Hasta la vista, Baby! Don't come BACH!

Posted by: Gary at December 22, 2005 06:04 PM

Very good piece and you hit the nail right on the head, the problem is certainly racial in Mexico, or at least it is a vital component of why they continue to let their country be ruled by an uncaring beauracracy. The elite's of Spanish and French lineage continue to run the show, they only allow the riches to be available to their own, and since there is no true free market due to high taxes, big government, and corruption at all levels, and there is no hope for the vast majority of the half breeds (brownies, of which yours truly belongs) and indigenous peoples. It is truly a disgrace.

The True King Carlos
The leader of The Not So Stupid Mexican Clan

Posted by: The True King Carlos at December 31, 2005 08:55 AM

I do hope things change there. In a country so rich in natural resources and history it is a tragedy the lives of ordinary people are so hard. Perhaps the church could speak out on this more, but ultimately the people need to take their futures into their own hands and be the masters of their own fate. A year of prosperity and many blessings to you and yours, Carlos.

Posted by: Martin at December 31, 2005 01:58 PM