Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Mexico: National Fury: US push for legal immgrtn only, provokes anti-American fit in Mexico

The continuous heavy influx of illegals over the US/Mexican border has sent Mexicans coursing thru-out the American West where an anti-illegals political sentiment has become the norm. Mexicans are often represented as feeling they have a right to broach the border and infiltrate the targetted society, if they wish and have the energy. Of course, they may die on the journey; some do. But the problem from the American side of the border is no longer deniable and the chief avenues of response is no longer arguable: a fence, wall, barbered-wire and all is desperately in need of construction so that the flood is brawt down to flow, then to a trickle, and at last to the occasional water drop thru the near-closed fawcet.

It's very sad to draw the conclusions, but all the fuming in Mexico cannot prevail against the demographic facts of the situation. Mexico holds back its own economic restructuring and bottles up creative entrepreneurship while sealing off new-tech investment from abroad searching for those creative entrepreneurs whose first language is Spanish. Mexico has an old, diplated and privileged capitalism that Vincent Fox represents. So, while the birthrate flows, the population overflows, and a sizable minority rabbits north, Mexico begets and begots and has more have-nots. Mexico must face the neo-Malthusian dynamics of its internal social structure (not benefitted by the Roman Catholic children-multiplying dogma, bereft of loving birth-control practices).

We need a wall separating the territory of the USA from that of Mexico, as that democgraphic avalanche cannot be allowed to displace the present American population and cultural mix in the entire Southwest. Then the US should get the Canucks to sit down together at a softwood table, of course, to determine how the same spirit along the Rio Grande should prevail at the northern border-crossings too - from Maine to BC. What about those stretches in the wild where an illegals-smuggler can drive along a road in Quebec or New Brunswick and where his passengers need only to cross a field, jump over a stone-fence meant to hold cows in or out, and voila!, you're standing in an American farmer's pasture or vegetable garden. Presto! You're an immigrant in America, and you demand your rights!

Forget it, Mexico. Forget it, Canada. There are rules, and the rules will get stricter because they have to. This isn't what America would prefer in a surrealist world of no heaven, no hell, and therefore nothing in between either, only the Beatles blasting everlastingly. But this wall to the south, and stricter policy to the north affecting me in Toronto, still are very sadly very very necessary. No-wall simply can no longer be afforded. Of course, damnit!, a wall cannot be constructed to cover the entirety of the problematic Canada/USA border, not by any means. But, at present, Canada doesn't recognize that the name of the game now is: Stop the uncontrolled flow in both directions, and filter as much of the problem group out of the flow and into outgoing ocean-crossing planes, or promptly into jails here.

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