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SD Examiner: Vista Migrant Camps - Sex, Drugs, and Illegal Fires by Kim Dvorak

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 01:57 PM on October 28, 2009

Kim Dvorak writes the stories that the Main Stream Media refuse to write. While the MSM panders to their special interests, Kim digs right into the truth and puts it out for all to see. Thank you Kim!!

http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Migrant-camps-with-drug-paraphernalia-discoved-in-Northern-San-Diego-County

Call-Fax-Email-Snail Mail- your local, state and federal officials, tell them you want secure borders, immigration laws enforced, No Amnesty and American workers put first and the pandering to foreign nationals stopped.

They have forgotten that they work for American citizens, not corportations, foreign nationals etc.

These sites have everything you need to

contact all your officials from local to federal.

http://www.congress.org/

http://www.usa.gov/index.shtml

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 11:52 PM on July 29, 2009

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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE PUBLIC -

SAT.8/1 6 PM, CAMPO BP STATION

Tribute to border Agent Robert Rosas, killed in the line of duty on July 23, 2009.

Where:

Campo Border Patrol Station (where Robert was stationed.)

32355 Old Highway 80

Pine Valley, CA

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/border_security/border_patrol/border_patrol_sectors/sandiego_sector_ca/stations/sandiego_campo.xml

(I-8, exit Kitchen Creek Rd. - map link below)

When: 6 - 9 pm. Formal Ceremony at 7pm.

Who: All members of the public and off-duty BP and LE officers are invited to attend.

Bring: Candles, flowers, small flags, cards, etc.

Many of our civilian border watch friends knew Robert. It was common to see him on the front lines at the Campo area border. He always had a smile and a big "thank you" when he greeted Minutemen and border volunteers. He will be deeply missed by his friends, fellow agents, and a grateful public.

July 28

Patrol Agent Robert Rosas was brutally murdered on duty the night of July 23 near the border by Mexican criminals who easily fled south back to Mexico after executing Rosas with mutliple gunshots to his body and head. The citizens of San Diego County are deeply saddened and outraged by this latest violence in America by Mexican thugs. Ernesto Parra Valenzuela is in custody in Mexico for the murder. Other suspects are also in custody. A vigil for the public is being planned for Saturday evening, 6-9pm at the Campo Border Patrol Station. More details soon.

Donations for family of Robert Rosas:

The Campo Station Welfare & Recreation has set up an account to receive

donations in memory of Agent Rosas and in support of his surviving family members:

Cabrillo Credit Union

358 East H Street, Ste. 603

Chula Vista, CA 91910

BPA Robert W. Rosas

Bank Account # 186716-02

Address for cards, letters, flowers, etc.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol

ATTN: Rosas C/O Public Affairs

2411 Boswell Rd

Chula Vista, CA 91914

*information from sdmm.com

OBAMA'S SUPREME COURT CHOICE/ GREAT ARTICLE

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 02:34 PM on May 27, 2009

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'Empathy' in action'

Thomas Sowell - Syndicated Columnist - 5/27/2009 10:05:00 AM

It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States.

You might think that this was some kind of popularity contest, instead of a weighty decision about someone whose impact on the fundamental law of the nation will extend for decades after Barack Obama has come and gone.

Much is being made of the fact that Sonia Sotomayor had to struggle to rise in the world. But stop and think.

If you were going to have open heart surgery, would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who was chosen because he had to struggle to get where he is or by the best surgeon you could find -- even if he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had every advantage that money and social position could offer?

If it were you who was going to be lying on that operating table with his heart cut open, you wouldn't give a plug nickel about somebody's struggle or somebody else's privileges.

The Supreme Court of the United States is in effect operating on the heart of our nation -- the Constitution and the statutes and government policies that all of us must live under.

Barack Obama's repeated claim that a Supreme Court justice should have "empathy" with various groups has raised red flags that we ignore at our peril -- and at the peril of our children and grandchildren.

"Empathy" for particular groups can be reconciled with "equal justice under law"-- the motto over the entrance to the Supreme Court-- only with smooth words. But not in reality. President Obama used those smooth words in introducing Judge Sotomayor but words do not change realities.

Nothing demonstrates the fatal dangers from judicial "empathy" more than Judge Sotomayor's decision in a 2008 case involving firemen who took an exam for promotion. After the racial mix of those who passed that test turned out to be predominantly white, with only a few blacks and Hispanics, the results were thrown out.

When this action by the local civil service authorities was taken to court and eventually reached the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Sotomayor did not give the case even the courtesy of a spelling out of the issues. She backed those who threw out the test results. Apparently she didn't have "empathy" with those predominantly white males who had been cheated out of promotions they had earned.

Fellow 2nd Circuit Court judge Jose Cabranes commented on the short shrift given to the serious issues in this case. It so happens that he too is Hispanic, but apparently he does not decide legal issues on the basis of "empathy" or lack thereof.

This was not an isolated matter for Judge Sotomayor. Speaking at the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, she said that the ethnicity and sex of a judge "may and will make a difference in our judging."

Moreover, this was not something she lamented. On the contrary, she added, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

No doubt the political spinmasters will try to spin this to mean something innocent. But the cold fact is that this is a poisonous doctrine for any judge, much less a justice of the Supreme Court.

That kind of empathy would for all practical purposes repeal the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees "equal protection of the laws" to all Americans.

What would the political spinmasters say if some white man said that a white male would more often reach a better conclusion than a Hispanic female?

For those who believe in the rule of law, Barack Obama used the words "rule of law" in introducing his nominee. For those who take his words as gospel, even when his own actions are directly the opposite of his words, that may be enough to let him put this dangerous woman on the Supreme Court.

Even if her confirmation cannot be stopped, it is important for Senators to warn of the dangers, which will only get worse if such nominations sail through the Senate smoothly.

CALL YOUR GOV. OFFICIALS AND TELL THEM

NO THANK YOU, WE WANT JUSTICE, NOT EMPATHY!!

NEW PATRIOT COALITION FORMS

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 02:56 AM on May 04, 2009

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FROM SAN DIEGO MINUTEMEN.COM::

NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PATRIOT COALITION FORMS !!

Oceanside, CA. - A large coalition of 24 Patriotic and Constitutional American grass-roots groups throughout Southern California has formed to fight the growing threats to our region and to taxpaying American citizens. Our motto is 'Secure Borders, Constitution, and Rule of Law'. This new coalition is non-partisan, multi-ethnic and based on common American principles. We invite all law-abiding citizens and legal residents from all walks of life to get active with our coalition partners and our political activism.

"Many of our state, federal, and local politicians, from both parties, have lost touch with the American people and the Constitution they took an oath to defend and obey. Grassroots groups throughout Southern California are working together to hold our politicians accountable and to keep California and America secure and free", said Chelene Nightingale, Managing Director for Save our State.

More American Patriot groups are expected to be added to our coalition in the coming weeks and months.

SoCal Patriot Coalition

SECURE BORDERS – CONSTITUTION – RULE OF LAW

California Coalition of Immigration Reform (CCIR)

Save Our State

San Diego Minutemen

Border Patrol Auxiliary

Minuteman Corps of California

Latino Americans for Immigration Reform (LAIR)

Tecate Border Volunteers

Central Coast Minutemen (MCDC)

Stop Taxing Us

Taxpayer Revolution Committee

Stop SPP (Security & Prosperity Partnership with Canada & Mexico)

San Diego Christians for Secure Borders

FIRE Coalition

Antelope Valley Minutemen

Los Angeles Minutemen

Desert Cities Minutemen

Ted Hayes' Group

San Diego Citizens Brigade

You Don’t Speak for Me, San Diego (Hispanics against illegal immigration)

Gun Rights Committee, San Diego

Oceanside Watch League (OWL)

Escondido Minuteman Brigade

Carlsbad Citizens Brigade

Encinitas Citizens Brigade

The Radical Extremist Hate Group, Southern Poverty Law (Lie) Center is already attacking our large and powerful American coalition! SPLC has been exposed in recent years as an open borders front group for Mexico and La Raza, and a Propaganda organization for the Socialist Movement in America.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/04/16/new-nativist-%E2%80%98patriot%E2%80%99-coalition-formed/

IMPORTANT READING!

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 05:30 AM on January 15, 2009

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The Untold Story of American Workers Vs. Illegal Immigration

http://www.alipac.us/article3891.html

NOW IS THE TIME TO CALL, WRITE, DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO MAKE YOUR OFFICIALS HEAR YOU.

OUR BORDERS NEED TO BE SECURED, OUR LAWS ENFORCED!

NO AMNESTY..

REPORT FROM THE CAMPO MINUTEMEN

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 02:48 PM on September 17, 2008

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Report From Gadget Dan

http://www.campominutemen.com/reports/reports.aspx

Yesterday, while removing litter at East Willow Road. & I-8 (South side of I-8), I came across two day packs with hooded sweatshirts inside and made in Mexico Gatorade, along with another third sweatshirt outside day packs in the brush.

I took pictures. of the find (and viewed damage to the CalTrans fence) prior to bagging and disposing the day packs. I removed 55 pounds of litter from public lands for the day. So far for the past five days, I have averaged 50 pounds of litter removal each day(up from a normal 25 -30 pounds per day).

It never ends! Dan.

SAN DIEGO MAYOR DECLARES LA RAZA DAY!

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 04:17 AM on July 11, 2008

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San Diego Mayor declares 'La Raza Day'!

Written by Tommy Chandler
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Illegals loitering in the Vons parking lot in Vista, CA I agree with Mr. James Hartline, who spoke in the City Council meeting today, this act was 'traitorous'. I say out of spite that we start a white oriented non-profit, tax exempt charity to further the lives and rights of white people in America! African-American people have one, the NAACP. Hispanics have one, the National Council of La Raza. What charity looks after white people? Oh, am I not supposed to talk about topics like this?! Why is it a double standard? Because you think that African-Americans and Hispanics are the minority and thus they are oppressed by the majority, or whites? Is that it? If you believe that, you are a Marxist. The National Council of La Raza, or in english, 'The National Council of The Race', is the largest Hispanic activist group in the United States. Here is a little about what they believe: (From Michelle Malkin) 10. La Raza supports driver?s licenses for illegal aliens. 9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants. 8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities. 7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the ?Aztlan Academy? in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn. 6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as ?a radical racist group?[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.? 5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border. 4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton?s Hispanic outreach advisor said this: ?US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.? He was referring to US English the nation?s oldest, largest citizens? action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms ?illegal? and ?amnesty.? 3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves?in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. 2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn. 1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of ?The Race,? for God?s sake. Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is ?La raza unida nunca sera vencida.? ?A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.?

MINUTEMEN, OTHERS MARCH IN L.A. TO PROTEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 06:01 PM on June 22, 2008

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CALL AND WRITE YOUR OFFICIALS TELL THEM WE SAY NO TO SANCTUARY CITIES! TELL THEM TO ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS AND TO SECURE OUR BORDERS! PUNISH EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS AND STOP ALL THE BENEFITS TO ILLEGALS! LET'S TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY! WAKE UP AMERICA!

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest22-2008jun22,0,6118988.story

Minutemen, others march in L.A. to protest illegal immigration

Benjamin Reed / Los Angeles Times

Dozens of protesters, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and community activists, march along Broadway in downtown L.A. to decry violence by illegal immigrants and to demand that the Los Angeles Police Department change its controversial policy limiting when someone can be questioned about their immigration status.

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The group of about 50 sought to draw attention to the slaying of a black youth by an alleged gang member in the country illegally. Counter-protesters call the marchers 'racist.'

By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2008

About 50 protesters marched in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to decry violence by illegal immigrants and to demand that the Los Angeles Police Department change its controversial policy limiting when someone can be questioned about their immigration status.

The marchers, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and local community activists, also called for justice for Jamiel Shaw II, 17, a black athlete who was shot and killed in March by an alleged gang member who was in the country illegally.

They carried American flags and signs that read, "Justice for Jamiel".

A few dozen counter-protesters walked alongside the crowd, shouting, "racists" and accusing the marchers of being Ku Klux Klan members. They held a large Mexican flag and chanted, "No human being is illegal."

A line of uniformed officers separated the groups, which remained peaceful despite heated verbal confrontations.

The march and rally at City Hall comes days after a judge ruled that Pedro Espinoza, 19, will stand trial in Shaw's slaying.

Shaw's father, Jamiel Shaw, walked at the front of the protest, wearing a shirt with a photo of his son and the words, "An illegal gang banger killed me."

"This guy just happened to be in the neighborhood and wanted to kill black people," Shaw said.

A few steps behind, protester and local attorney Sam Zislman said the slaying showed that the LAPD needs to reform its long-standing policy, Special Order 40, that prohibits officers from initiating contact with people simply to determine whether they are illegal immigrants.

Zislman and others are pushing a change called "Jamiel's Law" that would allow LAPD officers to routinely check the immigration status of known gang members who are suspected of committing a crime.

Zislman said police should be using "every possible tool" to detain illegal immigrants, especially known criminals and gang members.

But counter-protesters, including Najee Ali, argue that the slaying had nothing to do with race, but instead was gang-related. Evidence in last week's preliminary hearing showed that Jamiel Shaw II may have been associated with a gang at war with a rival group.

During the march, Ali held up a photo of Shaw flashing gang signs and said the family is trying to use the slaying to push their own anti-illegal immigrant political agenda.

"This was not a hate crime," said Ali, founder of Project Islamic Hope. "They are allowing their son's death to racially divide the city even more."

The case is part of a larger debate over the role of race in homicides in the area. Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has said that race is at the heart of the gang problem. On the other side, LAPD Chief William J. Bratton has said that gangs are battling over turf and drugs and that race-driven violence is rare.

anna.gorman@latimes.com

MEDIA ALERT:

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 01:21 PM on June 12, 2008

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MEDIA ALERT!

Jeff Schwilk, Founder, San Diego Minutemen

760-525-1655

Assemblywoman Lori Saldana is hosting a hate crimes summit (see their flyer below) this evening at USD, 6-8pm along with many other local community groups in San Diego. While the San Diego Minutemen is 100% opposed to all hate and racism and applaud and support any real efforts to curb hate incidents in San Diego County, we are concerned that Ms. Saldana, Enrique Morones, and many of the other radical illegal alien activists will use this forum to preach their own hate and continue their slanderous, malicious attacks against innocent Americans whom they have vowed to destroy due to their political differences on ILLEGAL immigration.

These groups, utilizing Saldana as their spokeswoman, have stepped up their vicious smear attacks this year against radio hosts Roger Hedgecock, Rick Roberts, and the more than 600 law-abiding, multi-ethnic members of the San Diego Minutemen due to our call for secure borders and immigration enforcement against criminals. Led by Saldana and her "Latino Caucus", they even succeeded in convincing the local Caltrans District Director to violate the U.S. Constitution and remove SDMM from our legally permitted adopted highway site in January. SDMM remains in the program and has sued Caltrans in Federal Court for the lawful return of that site.

Yesterday, Enrique Morones went on a Chicago radio show for an hour and made outrageous false statements that the Minutemen work with neo-Nazi's and that other secure borders groups are run by white supremacists! Here's the short clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUNvUag6oU . Enrique has been the main spokesman for the Latino groups in San Diego County for many years!

As you can hear, he then goes on to brag that members of the DA's and state attorney's offices will also be at the summit tonight and Enrique and friends will be pushing them to "shut down these groups".

Ironically, the keynote speaker tonight, Heidi Beirich from the SPLC, defended the Minutemen recently and made it clear that the Minutemen groups only oppose illegal immigration and don't hate anyone. Here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxjq0taKmag

For the record again, SDMM opposes any and all racially motivated hate and violence. The vast majority of our members are immigrants or children of immigrants from around the world, including Mexico. SDMM has never encountered any white supremacists or neo-nazi groups in San Diego County, but we have seen strong, violent anti-American hate from Brown Berets and other racist, seditious Chicanos and reconquistas. Just two weeks ago, Elizabeth Camarillo of Fallbrook was convicted for her attack on a peaceful SDMM cameraman which was clearly racially and hate motivated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtPuj0UB6BM This attack is so violent and shocking that YouTube flagged it as not suitable for minors. We applaud District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis for aggressively prosecuting this and other attacks on Americans during the past year and a half. These prosecutions have resulted in four convictions now against Minutemen attackers who just can't control their hate of Americans in public.

Here is the current list of over 2 dozen attacks against peaceful Americans by illegal aliens or their supporters in San Diego County:

http://sandiegominutemen.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=97

There has never been one single attack on anyone by a member of SDMM in 3 years of operation!

We agree with the premise of this hate summit that we all need to work together to end racial hate and division in San Diego. We believe that getting control of illegal immigration will go a long way to ending the growing anti-American hate that has begun to infest San Diego County the past 2-3 years by immigrants and activists who support illegal immigration from Mexico.

Several of our members will be attending tonight's forum to monitor the radical illegal alien activist leaders who are scheduled to attend.

http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=18318

HATE CRIMES SUMMIT
Thursday, June 12, 2008

United for a Hate Free San Diego is a coalition of 52 faith and community leaders and organizations who have been meeting regularly since November of 2007 in response to a growing trend of hate motivated behavior in San Diego communities. The goal of the coalition is to reduce the number of hate crimes that negatively impact so many people in our communities.

UNITED FOR A HATE FREE SAN DIEGO
A coalition of faith and community leaders

invites you to the first
HATE CRIMES SUMMIT

http://www.icwj.org/downloads/ICWJ_20080612_summitreg.pdf

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
5998 ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO

with keynote speaker:
Heidi Beirich, Ph. D. from Southern Poverty Law Center

A COMMUNITY INVITATION
United for a Hate Free San Diego is a coalition of 52 faith and community leaders and organizations who have been meeting regularly since November of 2007 in response to a growing trend of hate motivated behavior in San Diego communities. The goal of the coalition is to reduce the number of hate crimes that negatively impact so many people in our communities.

UNITED FOR A HATE FREE SAN DIEGO
A coalition of faith and community leaders

invites you to the first
HATE CRIMES SUMMIT

Thursday, June 12, 2008

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
5998 ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO

with keynote speaker:
Heidi Beirich, Ph. D. from Southern Poverty Law Center

CLICK HERE FOR A COMMUNITY INVITATION
http://www.icwj.org/downloads/ICWJ_20080612_summitinvite.pdf

CLICK HERE FOR A REGISTRATION FORM
http://www.icwj.org/downloads/ICWJ_20080612_summitreg.pdf

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Connie Hernandez, City of San Diego, Human Relations Commission, at telephone number (619) 236-6420 or by email

chernandez@sandiego.gov

MEXICO'S BORDER VIOLENCE AND THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP

Posted by sandiegobrigade at 08:29 AM on May 26, 2008

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Mexico?s Border Violence and the Security and Prosperity Partnership

By Christopher S. Bentley
Published: 2008-05-21 18:14

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:

A U.S. State Department alert, listed as ?current as of today, Tue May 20 09:15:37 2008,? warns Americans that ?foreign visitors and residents, including Americans, have been among the victims of homicides and kidnappings in the border region?. Armed robberies and carjackings, apparently unconnected to the narcotics-related violence, have increased in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. Dozens of U.S. citizens were kidnapped and/or murdered in Tijuana in 2007.?

Follow this link to the original source: "Travel Alert"

COMMENTARY:

A bus passes a billboard recruiting for police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Lou Dobbs reported yesterday on still more gangland-style executions along the border, one of them an American.

Because of the recent surge in violence, Newsweek interviewed ?Roberto? (not his real name), an American living in San Diego, to recount his story while he was visiting family in Tijuana in the summer of 2005. ?[A] group of approximately 20 masked [and armed] men burst in suddenly? in the home, claiming to be Mexican police. Grabbing ?Roberto as well as another family member and a close friend,? they were blindfolded, tied up and thrown into a car, which sped away:

Later that day the kidnappers called his oldest daughter to demand payment using a number they had retrieved from Roberto's cell phone. For the following two weeks Roberto ? was hogtied, left on a concrete floor and victimized by ?constant? beatings?. His captors fed him three tortillas the entire time, and gave him very little water. They separated him from his fellow abductees; he wasn't sure where they were being held.

Roberto?s kidnappers broke three of his ribs and sliced off the tip of his tongue. He was let go after his family paid an undisclosed ransom, but Roberto?s relative has not turned up and is believed to be dead.

For those who comfort themselves with platitudes like, ?thank goodness those kinds of things only happen over there,? Newsweek reports that ?kidnappers have begun to seize their victims inside the U.S. and take them to Mexico.?

As kidnappings and other violent crimes rage along the border, even in such places as far from the border as Green Bay, Wisconsin, local news broadcasts increasingly report crimes committed by Mexican gangs. In Green Bay, local ABC affiliate WBAY reported on May 16: ?southern Mexican gangs prevalent on the city's northeast side? are being arrested for various crimes against property. The reported identified "two separate gangs called SUR 13 and LMS," and noted that local detectives fear gang activity could escalate.

While Americans are becoming reluctant to travel across the border (tourism dropped in Tijuana by 50 percent in 2007), Mexican police are opting for new work ? or new places to live ? and in droves.

The Dallas Morning News recently reported: ?Faced with cartel-sponsored assassinations that have claimed the lives of more than 25 officers since the start of May ? including that of Edgar Mill�n G�mez, head of the federal police ? and threats of further retaliation, some Mexican police are quitting their posts.?

Things have gotten so bad that last week three Mexican police chiefs sought asylum in the U.S. because they fear for their lives. One of the police chiefs, from ?Puerto Palomas, a town bordering Columbus, N.M., west of El Paso, requested asylum in March when his entire force quit after receiving death threats from drug traffickers, reports show. Seven men were killed gangland-style in Palomas early Sunday in attacks attributed to local smugglers.?

The police chief of Ciudad Juarez, which is directly across the border from El Paso, Texas, was gunned down in a hail of 60 bullets as he arrived at his house. Also, a Federal Preventative Police official named Edgar Millan was also gunned down a couple of weeks ago in Mexico City.

The drug kingpin who allegedly ordered the hit, escaped during a police raid, but left behind were nine of his bodyguards who allegedly ?had recently defected from the Mexican army.?

All of this violence, as we?re told by the mainstream media, is supposedly stemming from the Mexican government?s crack-down on the drug cartels.

Oh that it were so simple.

As author and journalist Charles Bowden commented in his gripping and well-documented book Down by the River, when the illicit drug industry began in Mexico, ?[t]here [was] never a war between the drug business and government in Mexico. [There were] simply moments of friction caused by either the state?s desire to assert its power or by the governments? need to mollify the United States. It resolve[d] conflict with a hard hand.?

Gradually, the political ?hard hand? changed and extended outward to a gesture of economic partnership. On June 11, 1993, a lawyer named Luis Javier Garrido published an article, entitled ?the Narco System,? in a major Mexico City paper called La Jornada, detailing how former Mexican president Miguel de la Madrid made a bargain with the drug cartels in the 1980s to shore up the country de la Madrid himself had led to economic ruin. Garrido concluded the article, stating:

The production and sale of narcotics has been, as we know and as many studies have shown, a ?lifesaver? for the Mexican economy. As a result, the most recent governments have tolerated and even sponsored it....

In an interview not long after that article was published, ?President Salinas himself admitted that the annual flow of cocaine and other illicit drugs through Mexico totals some $100 billion annually.?

No one really knows how much the business is, but one thing is for certain, it hasn?t gotten any smaller. With a documented history of clandestine promotion of the illicit drug trade, can anybody really believe Mexico is going to shut it down?

Which is why whenever the U.S. government pressures Mexico to clean up its drug-trafficking problem, we can be sure that our leaders are ready to throw more political kerosene on the black market fire, and Mexico?s ruling elite will gladly play along with the charade.

To combat Mexico?s seemingly uncontrollable narcotics-trafficking problem, ?The Bush administration has petitioned Congress for a $1.4 billion, three-year package to send anti-narcotics aid to Mexico and Central America. All but $50 million of the package is earmarked for the Calderon government.?

For average Americans struggling just to make their mortgages, fill up their gas tanks and buy groceries, our political leaders? continued generosity with their constituents? money must be puzzling.

For those who understand the politics of the system that actually governs Mexico, it is an unmitigated outrage.

The Juarez city government is now attempting to hire police officers with a bonus (about $721) and pay (about $942 per month), which is lucrative in comparison to the average local wage.

But given the realities of the vicious drug war that starry-eyed recruits might face, the city might as well advertise: ?hey, for a whopping $942 per month, you can join us to fight the multi-billion dollar drug cartels, which are unofficially protected, sanctioned, and collaborated with by the Mexican federal government. Notwithstanding the dismal odds, and the fact that you could end up dead real quick, your city wants to hire you to combat this problem.? It's not hard to see why so many police are so easily corruptible and brought into working on behalf of the cartels.

Against that backdrop, consider the ramifications of the goals of those who seek to push NAFTA to the next level, through the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

In its ?Myths vs. Facts,? page, the SPP makes several straw men claims and then effortlessly knocks them over. In the interest of space, let's look at two, which are demonstrably false.

In one myth, that ?the SPP infringes on the sovereignty of the United States,? the SPP responds: ?The SPP respects and leaves the unique cultural and legal framework of each of the three countries intact. Nothing in the SPP undermines the U.S. Constitution. In no way does the SPP infringe upon the sovereignty of the United States.?

Judicial Watch, which obtained several reports through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), culled out several proposals that put this lie to rest. One proposal by a ?working group? was ?a conceptual agreement for a ?One Card? to facilitate cross-border movement between Mexico, the United States and Canada.?

Will the ?One Card? invite many more people like these to be a part of that ?cross-border movement??

Another myth the government entity claims to slay is that ?the SPP will cost U.S. taxpayers money.? It claims: ?the SPP is being implemented with existing budget resources. Over the long-term, it will save U.S. taxpayers money by cutting through costly red tape and reducing redundant paperwork. This initiative will benefit the taxpayers through economic gain and increased security, thereby enhancing the competitiveness and quality of life in our countries.?

In another FOIA request, Judicial Watch uncovered a ?deliverable? to ?Improve North America?s competitiveness by enhancing Mexico?s competitive position through the establishment of a grant fund for development with U.S. and Canadian resources to finance the development of physical infrastructure in Mexico.?

Yes, while Mexico is wallowing is unfathomable corruption, our leaders are preparing to tax Americans to build up its infrastructure.

Roberto vowed to ?never return to Mexico.? Given his experience, who can fault him?

However, Americans who don?t want to ever experience what Roberto did must come to the realization that if our ?North American? political elites have their way, the horrific crimes Roberto seeks to avoid in Mexico will come to us.