So Now Mexico's President Wants to Stop "OTMs" From Illegally Entering Mexico...

By Michael Cutler

This article, "Fox vows crackdown on own illegals," is of particular interest because now President Fox of Mexico is promising to make a concerted effort to keep aliens from other countries from getting into Mexico to help secure our nation against OTM (Other Than Mexican) aliens. My first thought was that I find it interesting that Mr. Fox believes he has the right to secure his nation's borders against illegal aliens, but screams loudly when our nation attempts to do the same thing, and in fact, provides comic books and DVDs to instruct his citizens in the best way for them to circumvent our Border Patrol so that they can succeed in entering our country illegally, get a job, often be exploited terribly at the hands of their unscrupulous employers and send money back to Mexico!

In response to Mr. Fox's generous "offer" I will simply say that while I was born on a Wednesday, it was not last Wednesday! Corruption plagues the Mexican government and is especially worrisome and prevalent where Mexican law enforcement is concerned. Terrorists and others with deep pockets such as drug traffickers and members of international organized crime groups would have little trouble playing the age-old game of "Let's Make A Deal" with Mexican officials. Perhaps they will have to fork over a bit more money, but in the end, they will learn to successfully play the famous game, "The Price Is Right!" The problem is that this is not a game.

Today some of the experts on the Sunday television talk shows were speculating that the situation with Iran is getting worse especially as Iran has announced that they have successfully tested an underwater missile that can travel faster than 200 miles per hour, putting our naval fleet at risk.

A number of the experts who were on interviewed speculated that if the United States was to attempt a military solution to the growing threat posed by Iran, that Iran might well resort to activating terrorist cells that might be hiding in plain sight within our nation as well as within other countries such as Israel. Interestingly, this is a prospect I have raised before. Couple this concern with the information that there are terrorist training camps operating in the "Three Corners" region of Brazil and the fact that more governments of Latin America have expressed overt hatred and animosity for the United States in recent months.

Many articles have been written about the violence being committed in the northern sections of Mexico because of the drug gangs who are operating in that region. In fact, the State Department issued a travel advisory, several months ago to United States citizens who might be traveling in proximity to the border, citing high levels of violent crimes in that region. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 more than 20 tunnels have been discovered enabling smugglers to move their cargo (human, drugs or possibly even weapons) surreptitiously into the United States.

Given the severity of the threat to the lives of our citizens and the security of our nation, we cannot allow our safety to rest on the shoulders of a nation that has demonstrated an incredibly high level of corruption and ineptitude where law enforcement is concerned. It is time that our nation, which has out-sourced many jobs to Mexico, not out-source our nation's security to there as well.

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