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Institutional narcissism
“It has been suggested by Border Patrol leadership that they are the Marine Corps of the U.S. law enforcement community,” Tomsheck said. “The Border Patrol has a self-identity of a paramilitary border...
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Taking a dump (metaphorically, that is)
As some of you know, I have been commuting between Mexico City and Mazatlán, both to try and get some writing and research done in the Capital, and to build relationships with other...
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The cartel we don’t talk about
The United States today spends more money each year on border and immigration enforcement than the combined budgets of the FBI, ATF, DEA, Secret Service and U.S. Marshals—plus the entire NYPD annual...
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If you need him, set him free? Chapo Guzmán at large
According to Proceso … a generally reliable source on the narco-“war”… two anonymous U.S. government sources are claiming that Chapo was NOT arrested in Mazatlán by Mexican marines on 22 February 2014,...
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¿Mi migrante es su migrante?
Most readers of this site are aware of the fact that undocumented immigration into Mexico is an administrative offense at best, and the idea of “illegal immigration” just doesn’t occur to us. After...
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All in all, no way you’ll build a wall
I’m still amazed at the number of people who think a wall… or even a fence… along the 3154 Km (1954 miles) of land border between the United States and Mexico is feasible. My best guess is they’ve seen...
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MAD… mutually assured deflection
Neither Trump nor Peña Nieto are popular presidents. Laura Carlsen speculate on Democracy Now that ratcheting up the rhetorical war between the United States and Mexico may have political benefits for...
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Quid pro quo… or expats beware.
Three members of the Mexican Congress have an answer to U.S. President Donald Trump’s funding plan for his wall on the southern U.S. border. If Trump applies taxes to Mexican imports to the U.S. or to...
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Once upon a time…
From: Joseph Nevins, “Pat Nixon at the US-Mexican Border” Common Dreams, 22 August 2008 Mrs. Nixon was in Imperial Beach, Calif. on Aug. 18, 1971 to inaugurate a state park. A 370-acre, former...
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Touchy, touchy…
From Sin Embargo: US immigration authorities canceled the visa for a woman traveling to the United States with a meme of President Donald Trump on her cell phones. On Denisse Maerker’s radio program on...
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Off the wall…
Mexico’s great 19th century diplomat, Matias Romero (who, as a 20-somethng, had won the support of the Lincoln Administration for the Juarez government through the simple expedient of accompaning...
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Occupational hazards…
WOW! Mexfiles has been amused and bemused by former Chihuahua governor Patricio Martínez’ semi-quixotic (though perfectly logical) demand for the return of some lands to Mexico that appear to have been...
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15 year old Kayla America Fuentes tracks down a story most of us would never touch with a ten-foot pole. The Old Man Who Calls The Border Patrol on Immigrants (Splinter 16 October 2017). Sombrero tip...
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Beer wars
Photo: Luis Arellano Sarmiento/la Jornada This was the scene last Tuesday, during a confrontation between Baja farmers and environmentals, and police outside a Constellation Brands brewery in Mexicali....
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Little did he know
“That border, we can say today, is not a wall that divides us, but a bridge of friendship which unites us.” Richard M. Nixon, Puerto Vallarta, 20 August 1970 The occasion was Nixon’s meeting with...
View ArticleDeciphering AMLO.
David Brooks, in yesterday’s Jornada: (New York) Shortly before he assumes power, investors, analysts and politicians in the United States have sought to define who and what President Andrés Manuel...
View ArticleSurveillance and the soccer-mom
Forwarded, and to be forwarded: Many of you know that I have been helping out for the last few months at the Benedictine Monastery, the site that Catholic Social Service’s Casa Alitas (DONATE HERE......
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Stupid politician tricks…
When it comes to stupid politicians, something there is that loves a wall. Although this one will never beat the one pulled by Raj Peter Bhakta … a Republican candidate for the 13th District U.S....
View ArticleA not so tariff-ic idea….
Donald Trump is unilaterally going to start slapping a five percent tariff on Mexican exports to the United States, raising the tariff by five percent per month “until such time as illegal migrants...
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