As Mexico teeters precariously close to collapse, the drug cartel wars continue unabated. Estimates of casualties over the last four years are believed to be about 28,000. The gamut of victims is wide. Besides the drug dealers, law enforcement, judges, politicians, journalists, and lots of innocents have been killed. There is no imminent victory or containment on the horizon by Mexico. It would safe to presume the cartels will continue to war, and the Felipe Calderon- government of Mexico may even collapse.  

This week, a respected newspaper in Juarez, just across the border with El Paso requested direction from the cartels on what the newspaper is required to do to prevent its staff from being murdered. El Diario has surrendered its free press mission and voluntarily becomes the mouthpiece for the cartels. Sobering! This “white flag” action by the Mexican press will not be an isolated gesture. 

Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stated the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles that of war-torn Columbia a generation ago. . Clinton called the warring drug cartel insurgents “battling for control of territory.”

Not to miss an opportunity, Clinton blamed the United States’ voracious appetite for drugs as causing the ensuing violence.  

Many feel Mexico will go the way of Columbia 20 years ago. 

Meanwhile, President Obama and the United States sit on the sideline, failing abysmally to secure the American border.  

Two questions beg to be asked… 

#1. . Why doesn’t the United States send troops to our border ensuring American citizens the backlash and overflow from the warring cartels will not spill in the United States?  

#2… Does the Obama regime actually want the Felipe Calderon government to fall creating havoc and chaos not only along the border but throughout America?  

The two questions are quite obviously related.  

Delusional Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calls the border “safe and secure.” The former Governor of Arizona sits in the pocket of committed ideologue Obama. I cannot surmise what goes through the mind of Barack Hussein Obama; but I am continually reminded by his Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel that one should never let a crisis bypass without enjoying a political advantage. It is quite obvious to this writer the president is not interested in securing the border and repelling human and drug trafficking.  

I am persuaded by the president’s lack of action that he discreetly hopes the Calderon government does indeed collapse creating millions of potential refugees seeking asylum. It is not rocket science to comprehend those displaced Mexican nationals would ask for and receive that political asylum in the United States of America.  

Political Asylum in the United States is the most corrupt of all aspects of America’s broken immigration policy. The Refugee Act of 1980, incorporating the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, governs American Immigration policy. In that same year, The Jimmy Carter Administration welcomed 140,000 Cubans released as so-called political prisoners from the Fidel Castro Regime. Thousands of those refugees were in fact criminals, sex offenders, and the mentally ill. The havoc wrought by this importation of refugees, especially in South Florida, was staggering. The crime rate soared as the new population was released into the community. As the Diaspora of refugees moved north and west, felonies in their wake spiked.  

Presently, The United States takes about 40,000 political refugees and grants them work status green cards. About one-half of the refugees fail to show up for additional Court proceedings and disappear in the American landscape. . 

Should Mexico collapse, estimates believe upwards of 10 million political refugees would seek asylum in America.  An Obama Administration, through the Office of Attorney-General Eric Holder, would streamline the process for granting admission to those millions. The course of proving the asylum-seeking individual known as an asylee would be a mere formality in the Obama Administration. In theory, the asylee would have to prove his or her life is in danger or his freedom would be denied for that individual or family to be granted asylum status. . In an Obama Administration, this procedure would be akin to a “dog and pony show “ 

In 1995, political writer David Simcox labeled American political asylum as the Achilles Heel of immigration reform. Simcox labels political asylum as the most idealistic, most uncontrollable, and most poorly managed of all features of the country’s convoluted immigration rules. I concur.

This sounds tailor-made for Obama and his sycophants.  

At stake here is America’s future as millions of poorly-educated, Third World impoverished sit at our southern doorstep, awaiting rescue from an Administration that has demonstrated time and time again, it does not harbor the best interests of its American citizens.  
 

Roger Gitlin is a retired teacher and founder of the Santa Clarita valley independent minutemen. He is also California State Director of the patriots’ coalition and can be reached at ragitlin@aol.com. His commentaries represent his own opinions and not necessarily the views of any organization he may be affiliated with or those of the West Ranch Beacon.