Is Mexico on the brink of widespread terror from the cartels’ violence which will propel many thousands across the border to invade a passive America?
Given recent events on the border, perhaps we should ask whether the Mass Mexodus has already begun.
Here’s a revealing statistic from the New York Times article below: “In El Paso alone, the police estimate that at least 30,000 Mexicans have moved across the border in the past two years…” While some Mexes have more recently entered and requested asylum, many have entered on tourist visas and never left. And no one seems to think this is a problem.
In fact, as I wrote a year ago, at least one state plans on responding to potentially hundreds of thousands (millions?) of “refugees” with a welcome mat and generous social services instead of American soldiers keeping them out: Texas Government Plan For Massive Mexican Invasion: Immediate Surrender.
In far west Texas, a Mexodus is underway, albeit on the scale of one small town to another.
Fleeing Drug Violence, Mexicans Pour Into U.S., NYT, April 17, 2010
The story of Fort Hancock, 57 miles southeast of El Paso on the Rio Grande, is echoed along the Texas border with Mexico, from Brownsville to El Paso. As the violence among drug gangs continues to spiral out of control in Mexico, more Mexican citizens are seeking refuge in the United States.
The influx of people fleeing the violence, some of whom were involved in drug dealing in Mexico, has disrupted Fort Hancock’s peaceful rhythms. These days, there are more police cars prowling the dusty streets, and fear runs high among residents.
The town has only a few paved streets, one restaurant near Interstate 10, a feed store, a small grocery, a gas station and a couple of general stores. Irrigation canals carry water from the Rio Grande to alfalfa and chile fields, set amid the cactus, sand and mesquite of the Chihuahuan Desert.
About 2,000 people live here, in ramshackle trailer homes, weather-battered recreational vehicles and well-kept brick houses. The water tower boasts of the high school’s six-man football team having won the state championship five times between 1986 and 1991.
A few children among the refugees belong to families involved in the drug trade, and rival gang members have threatened them, bringing the specter of gangland killings to the high school, law enforcement and school officials say.
“Some of the families who are fleeing from Mexico are doing it because they were somehow participating in these acts,” said Jose G. Franco, the school superintendent, “and if you want to get at somebody, you get at their children.”
The Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department and the state police are keeping a close eye on unknown vehicles parked near the schools. The school district has for the first time hired a law enforcement officer to patrol its three campuses and has installed security cameras. Spectators are now barred from football and basketball practices.
“The kids are a little bit on edge, you know,” said Constable Jose Sierra, who patrols the schools. “When we see a different car, we start to get phone calls.”
Not everyone coming from El Porvenir is seeking asylum. Many Mexicans in towns along the river have special border-crossing cards, which let them cross for up to 30 days to do business and shop near the border. But some have used the visas to relocate their families temporarily to Fort Hancock and other small towns on the Texas side.
Those who have temporary tourist visas or who can obtain business visas because they have enough money to start businesses in the United States are also moving their families across the border. (Cities like El Paso and San Antonio have had real-estate booms and a flourishing of small businesses and Mexican restaurants as a result.)
Other Mexicans who were once happy living in Mexico are taking advantage of whatever means they have to obtain a visa and get out. Some were born in a hospital on the United States side and are American citizens, for instance, or have married citizens but have never applied for residency.
In El Paso alone, the police estimate that at least 30,000 Mexicans have moved across the border in the past two years because of the violence in Juarez and the river towns to the southeast. So many people have left El Porvenir and nearby Guadalupe Bravos that the two resemble ghost towns, former residents say.
See, you can’t have open borders and just get the alleged “nice” Mexicans, as America should know well by now. Welcoming “refugees” also admits vicious cartel thugs along with the rest of the crowd. This is not a normal refugee situation and should not be treated as a humanitarian project, but rather as a national security threat.
Below, even a sturdy fence won’t help if we allow them in the front door as “refugees.”
