The latest installment of the Said in Spanish series includes four stories:
I. The View from Tamaulipas. The Mexican border state of Tamaulipas reports more deportations than a year ago.
II. The Lost Territories. Mexico became independent in 1821. At least on paper, it was twice as big, but it soon lost about half its territory.
III. Mexico’s Excelsior paper says the new tax plan will hurt American Latinos.
IV. Mexico’s La Jornada paper has an article about Central American illegal aliens in Mexico.
For the entire article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published February 28th, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: Central American Illegal Aliens in Mexico, Excelsior (Mexican Newspaper), La Jornada, Mexican Lost Territories, Mexicans Returning to Mexico, Said in Spanish Series, Tamaulipas
It’s 2018, and time for another Mexican presidential election. The candidates have already been selected by their parties, plus there are independent candidates.
Also, senators and representatives of the Mexican Congress are being elected. For the first time since the 1920s, reelection is being allowed in Congress.
For the entire article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published February 26th, 2018, on Mexidata.info.
Tags: 2018 Mexican Election, AMLO, Armando Rios, Jaime (El Bronco) Rodriguez, Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, Margarita Zavala, Mexican Congress, Mexican Politics, Ricardo Anaya
Now this is hilarious. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes to India and wears over-the-top Indian garb and within a few days his Indian hosts are calling his wardrobe choices “tacky”, “fake and annoying”.
For the entire blog entry, click here.
Blog entry by Allan Wall, published February 22nd, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: Canada, India, Justin Trudeau
The Mexican foreign ministry has a vast consular network in the United States, which it uses to meddle in U.S. immigration policy. The goal is to keep as many Mexicans in the United States while retaining their loyalty to Mexico.
Our politicians don’t care, even though Mexican meddling far outweighs any possible Russian meddling we keep hearing about.
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgary recently addressed a meeting of Mexican diplomats in Mexico City and talked about this.
For the entire article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published February 11th, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: Luis Videgaray, Mexican Diplomatic Corps, Mexican Meddling, White Mexicans
There were 25,339 reported murders in Mexico from January to November of 2017. The murder rate was 19.5 homicides per 100,000 people. That’s the highest murder rate since the Mexican government has been keeping track, in 1997.
That’s really bad. But other Latin American countries have high murder rates, some higher than Mexico’s.
For the entire article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published January 29th, 2018, on Mexidata.info.
Tags: Crime in Latin America, Crime in Mexico, Mexican Crime Statistics, Mexico Security
In early January 2018, the Banco de México (Mexico’s Federal Reserve equivalent) announced that remittances to Mexico from Mexicans abroad (nearly all in the United States) hit an historic high in calendar year 2017.
From January to November of 2017, the total remittance sum sent to Mexico was
26,167,000,000 dollars. That 26 billion dollar plus amount is a 6.15 percent increase over the January-November period of 2016.
Remittances are also sent to Central American countries by Central Americans working in the United States, and form a bigger share of those nations’ GDPs than do remittances to Mexico.
For the entire article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published on VDARE.COM, January 23rd, 2018.
NOTE: In the article as I originally wrote it, I only discussed the possibility of taxing remittances to pay for the wall, but in the editing process an exhortation by me to tax remittances actually became part of the title. I think building a wall (or better yet an Israeli-style fence) would be worth it if it were simply paid for by the U.S. Treasury. Of course I can’t imagine the Mexican government every paying for it. On the other hand, taxing remittances is doable and would be a way of, in a sense, charging Mexico (through its people) for the wall (although the money would actually come from American employers!)
The Mexican government couldn’t stop that, and the only way to try to stop it would be to tell its people not to send remittances! Anyway, they need to get the border fenced off, regardless of who pays for it!
Tags: Central American Immigration, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hugo Martinez, Nicaragua, Remittances, TPS ("Temporary Protected Status)
U.S. Army Special Forces, the Green Berets,are admired and feared throughout the world. They have earned that respect through their efficient operations. These efficient operations were results of their demanding standards, selection process and the motivation of the Green Berets themselves.
Ray Starmann over at the US Defense Watch website (here) says that the Green Berets are dropping their strict standards in order to get women in their ranks. Could this be true?
For the whole article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published on News with Views, January 12th, 2018.
About 190,000 Salvadorans have been ordered to return to
El Salvador in Central America, 17 years after the earthquake which won them a TPS (“Temporary” Protected Status).
The TPS Salvadorans have eighteen months to go back, and in the interim the Salvadoran government plans to obtain a permanent status for them in the United States.
For the entire article, click here.
Article by Allan Wall, published January 18th, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: Central American Immigration, El Salvador, Hugo Martinez, James Lankford, Said in Spanish Series, TPS
in order to reduce illegal immigration, we need to control the border but we also need to put pressure on employer who hire illegal aliens.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) carried out a huge operation in which nearly a hundred 7-Eleven stores were visited to check on the status of their employees.
According to the LA Times, “A total of 21 people were arrested on suspicion of being in the U.S. illegally”.
This is good, and more of this ought to be done. In fact, Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan says that’s what he wants to do.
For the entire blog entry, click here.
Blog entry by Allan Wall, published January 12th, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: ICE, Thomas Homan, Workplace Enforcement of Immigration Law
Is the Trump Effect wearing off on the border. That’s what the New York Times says.
The New York Times reports that the rate of illegal aliens attempting to enter through our southern border is going up.
For the entire blog entry, click here.
Blog entry by Allan Wall, published January 10th, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: Donald Trump, New York Times, The Border