Scott Harvey is a neighbor. I like Scott, but he’s dead wrong about so-called “illegal aliens” (“Let’s tighten our borders, for Mexico’s sake,” July 6). Those very words are fraught with hypocrisy.
Any American who wants to talk about corrupt governments ought to spend more time reading about our own. If our government were less corrupt and more civilized, Mexico’s government would be too, and the people who live in Mexico wouldn’t need to look for work in the U.S. Here are quotes from just one article (“Is the CIA behind Mexico’s Bloody Drug War?,” www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25319.htm):
“The militarization of the war on drugs has been a colossal disaster which has accelerated the pace of social disintegration. Mexico is quickly becoming a failed state, and Washington’s deeply flawed Merida Initiative, which provides $1.4 billion in aid to the Calderon administration to intensify military operations, is largely to blame.
“The surge in narcotics trafficking and drug addiction go hand-in-hand with destructive free-trade policies which have fueled their growth. NAFTA, in particular, has triggered a massive migration of people who have been pushed off the land because they couldn’t compete with heavily subsidized agricultural products from the U.S. … In August 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb released the first installment of Dark Alliance in the San Jose Mercury News exposing the CIA’s involvement in the drug trade. The article blew the lid off the murky dealings of the agency’s covert operations.”
If you spend a little time at the website I reference, you can find out how hypocritical our policies are. And it’s a lie that these workers take away our jobs. The reason Americans are out of work is not because of Mexicans. For that, look to Wall Street and your own feckless government.
Americans ought to spend less time at sports events and more time getting up to date on how our government and corporate elite corrupt other governments, destroy their cultures and are hell-bent on destroying ours, too.
— Mark Goldman
