Musings on the Politics of Immigration and Calif. Initiatives

Feast of the Annunciation and the Unborn, Saturday, March 25, 2006

There is in the politics of immigration a two-edged sword. One side of the sword points to America and the other side to Mexico. Let us focus on Mexico. This matter needs a big picture approach for it opens a Pandora Box.

Mexico is a great country. It has abundant mineral resources. Their people are very hard-working and law-abiding. In many ways, Mexicans have received a raw deal from their leaders, their government and their laws. Their Constitution also needs to be improved. Why did this happen?

For years, I was looking forward to a Baja California Riviera with millions of tourists vacationing each year. Sadly, “Five years ago, Thomas Constantine, then head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, told Congress that the power of Mexican Drug Traffickers had grown ‘virtually geometrically’ over the previous five years and that corruption throughout the country was ‘unparalleled.’… The fiasco with the Nuevo Laredo police is just one indication of mounting corruption within Mexico’s political and law-enforcement systems….The trade in illegal drugs is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise with the United States as the principle retail market.” Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, Is Mexico the Next Colombia? Chronicles, November, 2005, 44-5

Can you imagine the United States as an Ocean? Where would the 12 to 15 million illegal U.S. immigrants be? Would they have taken a boat to Canada? No, they would be in Mexico cleaning up their very corrupt government. It would be similar to what the Ukrainians did last year in the Ukraine. This has to be done sooner than later. It is an essential part of the immigration solution. Protests for honest government in Mexico can start on this side of the border.

Now when a country seems to export its own people, it is really not a country but a colony for what? Its citizens are real victims of their own corrupt government. For the sake of Mexico and the U.S.A., a comprehensive investigation of the corruption in Mexico is warranted and this report be published for mass distribution.

Nationally, the U.S. Senate will debate any tentative immigration laws. Catholic Social Teachings are rich with prudence and common sense. The priorities this year for Catholics and other Christians in California are the passage of the U.S. Senate’s Marriage Amendment, (Week of June 5, 2006), keeping the little Cross in the Los Angeles County Seal. www.SaveTheSeal.net, and the Parental Notification Initiative www.Yeson73.net It is a responsibility for us and the Church leadership to try and persuade the Democratic Party of the CINOP in California (Catholic in Name Only Politician) not to oppose the Parental Notification Initiative. The CINOP opposed the measure when it was on the ballot last November, 2004. It caused confusion with many voters from the politicians who call themselves Catholic.

George H. Kubeck, Approriate for today. Duplicate and or translate in Spanish.
P.S. Sadly, the above three Catholic priorities were not passed. They are really true American priorities.