http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/10/21/so-thats-fbi-integrity/

Plus, the corruption and lack of job market which sends everyone to work in the US doesn’t help the local municipalities. There is no infrastructure because illegal and legal resident Garcia alike sends the money to his mom who buys stuff for the house. No local income tax means no roads, schools, streetlights, etc. It’s a mess and the perfect vacuum for the cartels to come galloping in to save the village.

First, the religious dimension has two prongs: first, the profoundly anti-Catholic history of Mexico since the Cristero rebellion of the 1920s, a history propounded by the communist PRI (with the aid of the US government) for decades.

Second, the inroads made by evangelicals, Mormons, and independent Christian churches into what was once Catholic Mexico.

After Castro’s raid on the Moncada Baracks (July 26, 1953) and trhoughout his eventually successful revolution, he told American Catholics (we used to call them “ComSymps”) to “send more Rosaries!” Today’s Catholic bishops and their USCCB bureaucracy don’t have a clue either. They demand amnesty and come very close to calling opponents “bigots” and “hatemongers.”

I have never heard a single bishop call for closer scrutiny of the illegal population to ferret out the gang members. Perhaps it’s because the bishops recognize that every illegal has committed crimes already.

I don’t think this poses any security risk to Americans at all, though. This sort of thing is an answer to local problems there, and there is not becoming here as quickly as people think.

Illegal immigration here is about a labor surplus, which is drying up fast. I don’t think there are that many latinos who really would move here just for the benefits. It doesn’t fit the behavior pattern of any of them that I know. American welfare isn’t that cushy anymore, and it’s a paperwork nightmare. To suggest that hordes of latinos are going to hang around and stop working just to bask in it is to defy logic. They like home just as much as we do, if not more.

Instead doesn’t it seem to first call into question our policies on drugs, which strike me as just little short of insane, but with ever greater ambitions?

E.g., simply make pot legal, and therefore cheap, and therefore easily available, and wherefore maybe the attractiveness of all other drugs crashes maybe bringing down or at least seriously harming institutions like La Familia?

To a hammer every problem looks like a nail, so I understand why a national security/military guy like Lind sees this in the terms he has, but….

Cheers,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/23/la-familia-drugs-us-mexico