You want Irony? I'll give you IRONY!

Mexicans are now securing their own Southern Border against a flood of "Illegal Immigrants"!

(How do you like them apples?)

BREAKING. Caravan of Central American Illegals Turned Back By Mexico: A caravan of migrants near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala on Friday has turned back from its planned sojourn to the U.S. in the face of a heavy presence of Mexican and Guatemalan law enforcement officers, according to media reports. The Associated Press reported that thousands of migrants stopped about two blocks from the Guatemala-Mexican border crossing before turning around, saying they would wait another hour or so. The border post, reports the AP, is guarded by a heavy security force and tall metal gates. Dozens of Mexican federal police officers are on the border bridge, with hundreds more behind them. In Guatemala, government authorities closed its border gate and are standing guard with dozens of troops and two armored jeeps. Mexico’s ambassador to Guatemala says his country has decided to enforce a policy of “metered entry” since thousands of migrants are clamoring to cross, says the AP.

Yes, I'm aware that this action has been taken because (our President) Trump has threatened to withdraw all "aide" (money we've been paying them off with) from both Mexico and Guatemala if the mob reaches America's border with Mexico.

Yes, I can use the "mob" word here.

Yes, I can also use the word Schadenfreude here.

The HillaryBeast would have welcomed the mob with open arms.   I'm finally glad to acknowledge Donald Trump as the most presidential President we've seen for a long time.

We needed a leader who could make the hard decisions.

Mexico moves to arm private citizens..... legally!

A Mexican senator has moved to allow citizens of his country the legal right to "keep and bear arms", using the U.S. Constitution as an example.

PAN  (Mexican) Senator Jorge Luis Preciado made public the initiative to carry guns on vehicles and businesses, supports the Second Amendment of the US Constitution staunchly defended Donald Trump

(NOTE: Quotes in this article represent automatic translation from the original Spanish.  The sometimes labored translation is a computer feature, not an attempt to make the language sound less comprehensible.  It's my fault, I can't speak Spanish!)

Preciado is by law to arm citizens, evokes amendment 'flag' Trump | Excelsior:

Rodriguez ruled that this initiative demarcation of their obligations to the authorities responsible for providing security to citizens; in this regard, he considered that this measure will help to assist the state in this issue. He asserted that the Mexican State has failed in its duty to protect citizens from crime, since in the United States, where it is allowed to carry firearms since 1789, the homicide rate is 4.7 per hundred thousand inhabitants, while that in our country the average is 21 homicides per hundred thousand inhabitants; and he pointed out that in states like his native Colima, or Guerrero, the figure is 56 homicides. He explained that this initiative seeks to prevent crime, since a criminal will think twice before attacking a house or a business.

Preciado is generous in recognizing that the rate of homicides in Mexico exceeds that in the United States by a factor of over 4 times as many murders per 100,000 citizens.

Personal opinion:  As is the case in America, the high "gun-violence" rate in Mexico is driven by gangs and drugs  (ie: cartels).

Unlike America, the average citizen in Mexico is unable to legally possess a firearm.  Which makes them victims of the criminals (back to the drug cartels) who do not fear the legal consequences of having been found to possess a firearm.

(The Cartel members just shoot the Federales and impose their own laws on what they consider their own private turf.   Oh, and they own the judges ... except for the few who are used to 'set an example' by killing the honest judges and their families, in horrible ways.)

I think it's about time that Mexico chose to allow private citizens to keep arms in defense of the criminals, which are the underground government by virtue of the fact that they are armed, and most law-abiding citizens are not.

Since the police and the army are also owned by the cartels, that puts the honest, private citizen in the position of facing hundreds of potential attackers with nobody watching his back.

As unpopular as it will probably turn out to be, Rodriguez is trying to keep his fellow citizens from being nothing more than targets that can't shoot back.

Viva Zapata!

Mexico: "You call us dangerous?" America: "YES!"

Mexico to US after Oregon shootings: You call us dangerous? | Public Radio International:
October 02, 2015

Mexico. Many in that country think we in the US are just a little hypocritical. "They accuse us of being a violent little country, but look at them," says Alfredo Corchado, Mexican bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. "This is just one more mass shooting by a lone gunmen." Corchado says the frequency of school shootings in the US does not happen in Mexico. "Here, you hear about the mass shootings of immigrants targeted by organized crime, or kids at a party in Ciudad Juarez who had the wrong information and targeted the wrong house. But nothing like a Sandy Hook or in this case, Oregon." Guns are extremely difficult to get legally in Mexico. Corchado says they require strict background checks that include mental health checks. "Mexico has one of the tightest gun control laws anywhere," he says. "But like a lot of laws in Mexico, it's meant to be broken or it's meant to be ignored."

Here are the raw statistics:

(Rough copy of table ... specifics compared directly over the fold.)

Firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year

Country	Total	Method of Calculation	Homicides	Suicides	Unintentional	Undetermined	Sources and notes

Mexico

11.17

(mixed years)

10.00 (2010)

0.69 (2001)

0.47 (2001)

0.01 (2001)

Guns in Mexico[42]

United States

10.5

(2013)

3.55 (2013)

6.70 (2013)

0.16 (2013)

0.09 (2013)

Egyptians Kill Mexicans

Egypt says 12 Mexican tourists killed by security forces in accidental shooting | Fox News:

MEXICO CITY –
September 14, 2014

At least 12 people were killed and 10 injured in Egypt's southwestern desert Sunday when armed forces mistakenly fired on a group of Mexican tourists, Egyptian officials said. The Mexican Foreign Ministry confirmed the incident and said at least two of the dead were Mexican nationals. It said in a statement that the victims were still being identified, and Foreign Ministry personnel were working with the families of the victims. The Egyptian ministry said that police and armed forces were pursuing terrorist elements in the area and fired on four cars that turned out to be carrying tourists. The ministry said the victims were Mexican and Egyptian.

Well, at least the Egyptians had the grace to claim that the shooting was the result of an error in identifying their victims before killing them.

This is much more laudable than the explanations which Mexico typically publish when they kill a dozen of their own.

Apparently, there are still regions in the world which are more deadly to Mexican nationals than their own homeland.

Wouldn't it be ironic if it turned out that these dozen Mexican nationals were refugees seeking asylum?

Still tragic, yes; but  ironic.

VERY Interesting -- but Stupid!: Freedom For Cash

YouTube - Video Shows Officer Offering Truckers Freedom For Cash
Tennessee Law Enforcement ... "Give up the Drug Money, and we'll let you go free!"

I don''t know if this is a legitimate law enforcement tactic or not, but the District Attorney General has a hard time deciding how to justify the practice of intimidating truck drivers to get them to give up the 'Drug Money' they are carrying (supposedly, knowingly).

Anything that undermines the profit motive from Drug Running is "A Good Thing", right?

Or is it? I don't know.

YOU watch, you decide.



Hat Tip:

War on Guns

PS: I would LOVE to hear how these drivers explain how they lost a half-million dollars to their drug-dealer honchos.

Wouldn't you?

Especially, after the seizure is posted on You Tube.

Sorry, guys, but I think that the Tennessee cops have just undermined their program: these drivers will no longer be seen, except perhaps as evidence in the alimentary tract of no-longer-starving coyotes in Mexico.

Persuader

Mexican President Flipe Calederon addressed the American Congress last week, and one of the primary points of his speach was that he "decried" the law recently enacted by the Arizona legislature which enabled local law enforcement agencies to enforce Federal laws which penalized individuals who enter American states (specifically, Arizona) without benefit of Federal permission.

Note that this access is specifically forbidden by Federal law, and the obligation to "protect (our) borders" is a constitutional requirement ... which is not current enforced by the Obama administration.

Specifically, he said:

"I am convinced that a comprehensive immigration reform is crucial to securing our common border," the Mexican president told lawmakers in both parties gathered for the speech. "However I strongly disagree with your recently adopted law in Arizona."

Democrats stood and applauded Calderon's remarks at that point in the speech, while many Republicans remained seated, with no applause.

Here's an interesting ... and perhaps telling .. statement from Calderon:

In asking anew for an immigration overhaul, Obama showed solidarity with his guest of honor, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who called Arizona's law discriminatory and warned Mexico would reject any effort to "criminalize migration." The United States and Mexico share a significant economic and political relationship that stands to be damaged the more the nations are at odds over immigration, which affects millions of people on both sides of the border.

Note that word: "migration".

Has Calderon confused the word "migration" with the word "immigration"?

It sees that he has, and the words we speak without thinking are most likely to reveal our inner thoughts.

Calderon is striving to encourage the United States of America to accept his most impoverished, and least productive, citizens. Those who have no skills to bring to the American job-market, but who are able to perform only unskilled labor for less than and American could legitimately and legally demand for doing the same work.

In a word .... a single word ... Calderon is condemning his "peasantry" to poor, underpaid manual labor for the single purpose of removing them from his country's economy.

He has unconsciously committed them, these "peons", to under-paid, under-skilled wage slavery for the benefit of his country, and for then "excess income" (excess, after mean wage-slave income) which they can garner in our country.

Does Calderon have the best interest of his citizens at heart? No, unless one considers that un-skilled workers are best encouraged to remove themselves from Mexico, and earn what meager salary they can in America.

They can make enough money to send some home? Great for Mexico, which has removed the lowest skilled workers without penalty, and still effect the transfer of literally BILLIONS of American Dollars to Mexico.

Why else would he object to America's attempts to enforce our border/immigration laws?

Remember the difference between "immigration" and "migration".

The first is the legal transfer, with permission, of individuals from one country to another.

The other is the transfer of individuals from one country to another, without necessarily being legally accepted by the receiving country.

Calderon thinks that "migration" is a wonderful, no-penalty solution to his country's overpopulation of Peons.

Obama thinks that it is a great way to propagate his Socialist agenda.

And so there is no difference of opinion between the two national leaders.

Except that American Citizens, who are dying by the thousands every month because 85% of these "migrants" are criminals, and they are underining the infrastructure of America.

But Obama doesn't care, because he plans to make them "legal citizens" through his plan of "immigration reform", and every fricking one of the are going to vote Democratic in 2012.

Why shouldn't they? Obama and the Liberal Democrats have given them the Keys to the Kingdom, and they are very grateful.

The Democrats care not one whit about the security of America. They just want the votes.

And they shall have them.
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Houston, we have lock and load

In 2008, Mexico asked American officials for help in the effort to deny armament to Mexican drug gangs.

In Houston, ATF agents are responding with alacrity:

In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?

The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun.

“I’ll do the talking on this one,” agent Tim Sloan, of South Carolina, told partner Brian Tumiel, of New York.

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”

In Texas, ATF are kicking down doors and taking names, not because they think that American Citizens are purchasing illegal guns, though.

Their concern is that American are buying guns for the express purchase of reselling them in Mexico.


Given that the Mexican Drug Lords are living the life of feudal rulers in Mexico, a life-style which is supported by sales of illegal drugs in America, we need to wonder whether the Mexican Government is reciprocating by cutting down on drug shipments across the Rio Grande to America.

Are elements of the Mexican Government placing a high priority on stopping the shipments of illegal drugs into America?

No?

Why not?