What happened today in Mexico is why every country on planet Earth enforces its borders and have immigration control. With 2 million “got aways” in the U.S. under the Biden Administration, the U.S. is now open to foreign terror attacks by cartels — not just Mexican but also Russian and Chinese. For years, Islamists terrorists have infiltrated the border as well.
ICE enforcement against known violent criminals was prudent decision making by the Trump administration to protect the homeland from foreign violent criminals. Elected officials not cooperating with ICE can hide behind ideology or the “state laws” they created but, in the end, these elected officials are complicit and have blood of those victims (including the drug overdose deaths) on their hands. They can deflect and gaslight and tap into hatred for Trump, but people are still dying.
ICE does not get a pass or a proverbial blank check to usurp laws/rights. Hopefully under Border Czar Tom Homan, their approach will be more measured.
One must recognize that another person does not share your same value system; do not think like you; and are not rewarded by the same things that incentivize you. Some have altruistic intentions, other selfish.
Bad actors weaponize “empathy” to infiltrate, set up black market operations, then exploit the very immigrant population that migrated here. Think of con artists who always come with a smile — enemies come with open arms.
Notice how a disproportional amount of gang violence/youth crime in South Snohomish County is from young Latino teenage boys — it’s because the cartels are recruiting these young men in schools.
Notice how the Edmonds School District no longer have SROs in schools anymore which the youth violence corresponds to exactly when they voted SROs out because they alleged the sight of police is triggering — total bullshit because the very survey from the school district showed over 90% of kids said they loved their SRO. This move was purely political, and those school directors have blood on their hands. Their actions are exacerbating the mental health of kids. Kids need strong authority figures, not wishy-washy touchy-feely word salad people who they are forced to look up to.
Back to youth violence. The cartels have lawyers (the cartels are a global enterprise of very smart people). The cartels use minors because our laws shield minors from interrogation and from being tried as adults — these kids engage in car thefts and burglaries mostly and the occasional murder. The organized crime rings now have cheap labor with a high return and little risk for punishment as RICO cases are extensive/expensive to prosecute.
The cartels use these minors to commit crimes because youth, especially teenage boys, love the thrill — it is exciting (that is the simple truth), especially in a feminized society who tells them being a man full of energy is toxic.
Also, teenagers’ brains aren’t developed enough to understand the true consequences of their actions.
The cartels exploit these, manipulate the kids to engage in criminal behavior, reinforce the behavior with accolades and praise letting the kids know they are part are something bigger than themselves and its “adult” behavior. They also guilt the kids into secrecy and those that talk or stand up to the bad actors, well, those kids are eliminated as we have seen several times in the last few years.
The fault is not the parents. These parents are working multiple jobs and love their kids. However, what can a parent do, under the threat of cartel retaliation if they contact law enforcement or forbid their child from engaging with gang members who they will encounter daily at school. A lot of these parents simply pray and hope for the best.
I cannot speak as if a know exactly the Trump administration’s true plan to deport 10-15 million people but with ongoing operations in Mexico, the apprehension of Maduro, pressures on Cuba and Colombia, I suspect a total elimination of the cartel enterprise in the Americas.
Consider a thought experiment, the effort to deport 10-15 million people is expensive and the risk of bad optics increases the longer the operation. So, what can a government use in its arsenal besides physical enforcement — benefits and opportunities.
The Trump administration is cracking down on ensuring monies for housing, social programs, and medical services are not going to be available to undocumented peoples. Those states that keep doing it will have to pay for it by taxing their own residents — these states also hide or refuse to collect the statistics on how much it is costing their residents under the guise of “values.”
The less the federal government subsidizes those “values” the more those values cost the taxpayer — it is that simple. Then emotional manipulation is used by elected officials and their surrogates to convince the population to adhere to that “value” system.
As the benefits are cut, the federal government cuts opportunities — aka employment. The federal government can literally put companies that employee undocumented people out of business and charge those employers with crimes and/or very stiff penalties.
One can argue that it will be callous to implement a policy where undocumented people are forced to return to the very crime-ridden corrupt countries they came from.
So, to resolve this, the might of the US military and its Intelligence Operations in cooperation with neighboring governments, must eradicate the power and influence of the cartels who also fund organized crime operations in the US.
This is what I suspect the Trump administration is doing — making Central and South America safe for undocumented people to return home taking with them valuable skills and money to help rebuild their homelands — El Salvador for example.
To simply deport people back to the unsafe and corrupt living conditions they left, is a plan doomed to fail. The asylum seekers claim it isn’t safe to go back because of cartel activity, well when that activity no longer exists, the asylum claims will be denied.
Education will be impacted by smaller school enrollment which will equate to the need for less teachers. Unlike manufacturing sector unions that have taken a hit and adjusted, education unions have increased in both numbers and density. Less teachers equals less monies to teachers’ unions which equals less political influence in policy that benefits the unions, not students.
I suspect we will see in the future smaller class sizes, a drop in rental prices as more units become available because the state and counties aren’t paying to house asylum seekers, and deflation in consumer prices as demand drops because undocumented people will return back to their country of origin.
Everything is connected thanks to globalism, but the world is now changing. The liberal world order has collapsed, and a new Golden Age of Western Civilization, of which Latin America is part of, is on the horizon.
Mario Lotmore, Publisher of the Lynnwood Times
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