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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Mexican migrant caravan continues, plans to cross at Baja California

OAXACA, Mex. (INTELLIHUB) — Several hours after Mexican government officials vowed to disband a caravan of hundreds of migrants who are currently marching toward the U.S. border and and planning on entering America through Baja, California, the march organizer ,Pueblos Sin Fronteras, declared the caravan would continue onward to and across the border.


Migrants could be seen collecting donations from motorists to continue their trek into the U.S.


“Mainly from Honduras and Guatemala, migrants stop at some points on the highway to ask for support from motorists and to continue their way to #Tijuana to cross to the U.S.,” one Tweet reads.




Another Tweet reads: “Central American migrants continue their way in the migrant caravan 2018 with the intention of achieving the American dream and stopped at Tapanatepec to ask for cooperation to the motorists to continue their path.”




In an unexpected twist of fate, Mexican authorities help feed the migrants.




However, the Mexican government plans to split up the caravan on Wednesday in Oaxaca but a prominent migrant organizer maintains the march will continue as promised.


On Monday, national security correspondent for BuzzFeed Adolfo Flores tweeted: “Mexican immigration authorities said they plan on disbanding the Central American caravan by Wednesday in Oaxaca. The most vulnerable will get humanitarian visas.”




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Will the migrant caravan make it into the United States?




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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Sweden Hell: Armed Migrant Teens Roaming With Kalashnikovs; Military May Be Deployed

This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge


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Rosengård district of Malmö. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT


As we reported last week, Sweden may or may not be preparing for civil conflict – as Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that the government would do whatever it takes – including deploying the military – to end the wave of gang violence coming primarily from young migrants in the country’s “no-go” zones.


“It’s not my first action to put in a military, but I’m prepared to do what it takes to ensure that the seriously organized crime goes away,” Lofven said after the party leadership discussion in parliament, adding “it is also obvious that there are social problems… …We see criminals with total lack of respect for human life, it’s a terrible development I’m determined to turn around.”Lofven’s comments come on the heels of a spate of gang related murders, including that of a 21-year-old man in Malmö last weekend, shot in the head as he stepped out of a taxi near a grocery store.The same weekend, a 16 year old boy found shot in Rosengård district of Malmö died in the hospital next to a bus stop. Two people were taken in for questioning by the police.

And on January 3rd a 22-year-old man was shot in the Fosie district of Malmö, the day after an 18-year-old woman was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds ten minutes away in Rosengård.


In Malmö, where a fifth of the 340,000 inhabitants are under 18, children as young as 14 roam the streets with Kalashnikov assault rifles and bulletproof vests. The average age of gang members is 22, the vast majority of them hailing from migrant families. –thetimes.co.uk


The increase in crime has been so overwhelming that Swedish authorities admit they are unable to investigate rape cases right now because of the enormous backlog of gang crime under investigation. “We are forced to choose between two evils,” said police.



Prime Minister Lofven’s strong language also follows an attack on the Rosengård police station last Wednesday after an explosive device was lobbed at the electric-fenced building – the latest in ongoing violence against Swedish peacekeepers.



Rosengard police station was attacked (thetimes.co.uk)



Last August, Stockholm police officer Ted Eriksson, 34, was stabbed in the neck by an Afghan asylum seeker who claimed to be 17 but was suspected of being in his late twenties. The man said he wanted to kill a policeman, however officer Eriksson fortunately suffered minor injuries.




Ted Eriksson (LISA MATTISSON/TT NEWS AGENCY)


In April, 2017, three Swedish female police officers were beaten as they attempted to apprehend a violent refugee.



In 2013, Swedish police were targeted several times during the Stockholm riots – which saw a police station burned down, several officers injured, and rocks thrown at firefighters and other first responders.


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And in 2016, migrants even attacked the crew of ’60 Minutes’ while they were filming a segment on… migrants.



Meanwhile, increasingly powerful weapons have been turning up in Swedish neighborhoods. In 2015, anti-tank missiles were found in a basement of a 36-year-old man suspected of smuggling guns from his brothers in Bosnia into the Swedish no-go zone of Örebro – considered an “Especially vulnerable area” according to a 2017 police report.



The man and five others – described by Bosnian media as linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, were arrested in a series of seven raids. Bosnian Authorities, however, told SVT News that the smugglers are not members of any extremist organizations and have no known links to terrorist activities.


After an investigation following seven raids in mid-2016, Swedish authorities dropped the smuggling charges and prosecuted the Örebro man for possession. He is currently in prison for drug offenses during his ongoing arms-related prosecution.


Police also found a trove of firearms, 16 hand grenades, the four anti-tank missiles pictured above and various other armaments.





Speaking of explosive devices, grenade attacks in Sweden have been on the rise since 2012, although 2017 was a considerably better year, at 10 attacks vs. 34 in 2016.



That year, an 8 year old boy sleeping in the Gothenburg, Sweden living room of relatives was killed by a grenade thrown into the room. “At least five children and several adults were in the flat when the grenade was hurled inside,” according to the BBC, who added that the boy died in his mother’s arms.


And in February, 2017 a man was injured outside of a residence after a grenade was thrown:




It seems, perhaps, that Sweden’s ultra-liberal, open-border, self-described feminist government is realizing they may have screwed up by allowing unchecked migration from Islamic countries associated with terrorism, violence, and perhaps containing people with an axe to grind against the West. As The Times notes:


Sweden has pursued a liberal immigration policy for more than a generation; its government speaks of being a “humanitarian superpower” for having taken in a large number of asylum seekers. After the migrant crisis of 2015, when more than 160,000 people sought asylum, the policy was abruptly changed. Yet there is little debate or reliable data about the integration of the 12% of the population that derive from non-western countries.


For a long time the Swedish establishment played down the decay of immigrant-dominated suburbs, but it can no longer ignore the explosion of violence.


It should also be noted that 70% of migrants coming into Europe as of 2015 were men of fighting age according to a Pew Research Center study.


Even Swedish Democratic party leader Jimmie Akesson “declared war” against organized crime and suggested that Sweden should deploy the military to no-go zones to counter the out of control violence.


“People are shot to death in pizza restaurants, people are killed by hand grenades they find on the street,” Akesson said in parliament on Wednesday.


“This is the new Sweden; the new, exciting dynamic, multicultural paradise that so many here in this assembly … have fought to create for so many years,” he said sarcastically.


And now the Swedish government is distributing survivalism pamphlets (for war with Russia, of course) and considering deploying the military to deal with idealistic gun-toting migrant youth gangs from brutally war-torn countries.


Who could have possibly seen this coming?



Feb, 2017 – Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister, Feminist Isabella Lövin mocks U.S. President Trump with all-female colleagues – one week before donning hijabs to meet with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Men From “Syria Or Afghanistan” Arrested In German New Year’s Eve Sex Attacks

This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge


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German police report 10 arrests have been made for sexual assault

following New Year’s Eve celebrations


Over a dozen arrests were made for New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Germany as women were groped in Berlin and Cologne by “predominantly young men from Syria or Afghanistan,” despite “safety areas” set up to curb sexual offenses. Meanwhile, thugs in France torched nearly 1,000 cars and brutally kicked a French policewoman in the head as other thugs filmed the attack and uploaded it to the internet.






The two officers arrived at the scene of an out of control party in Champigny in the south-east Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne, a 12 minute drive from the “no-go zone” in Noisy-le-Grand.


After they were attacked, the thugs ran into a nearby housing complex after destroying the patrol car – which was turned upside down. One source told the Daily Mail, “The captain had tried to defend the pair using a tear gas canister, but was badly beaten up,” adding “At one stage he produced his service weapon, but did not get a shot off. The female officer has been written off work for at least a week, while the captain will be off for at least 10 days.”


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Flipped over police car, Champigny-sur-Marne (Daily Mail)


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Thugs assault policewoman, Champigny-sur-Marne (Daily Mail)


The incident sparked outrage across France – prompting president Emmanuel Macron to decree that the culprits would be brought to justice, stating “Those guilty of the cowardly and criminal lynching of police doing their duty on the night of December 31st will be found and punished,” adding “Force will support the law. Honour to the police and full support to all the agents attacked in such a low level fashion.”


In Berlin, at least 13 cases of sexual assault were reported on New Year’s Eve despite a widely touted “safety area” set up by the German Red Cross at the Brandenburg Gate – intended to protect women trying to ring in the new year without getting felt up or raped.


A tweet made by the Berlin police reads (translated): “At events to #Welcome2018 in #Berlin so far unfortunately occasional sexual assaults were reported. We do not tolerate such acts. Suspects were arrested.”




Thomas Neuendorf, of Berlin police, told Ruptly that the victims were “groped between their legs and on their buttocks,” adding that the perpetrators were “predominantly young men from Syria or Afghanistan.”


Meanwhile in Cologne, Germany, nine women reported being inappropriately touched during New Year’s Eve celebrations, according to Police – who added that three suspects had been identified and arrested. 


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German police frisk a man in front of the Central Station in Cologne (Image: EPA)



In Hamburg, “a very small number” of sexual assaults were reported, while Munich police have yet to report in. “Experience shows that such a thing [sexual assault] often emerges only one or two days later,” said a spokesman for the Munich police.


In 2015, Germany suffered the worst string of New Years Eve attacks in modern history, with over 1,500 criminal cases reported – including one in which “heavily intoxicated” men of “Arab or North African” origin were accused of attacking local women in the Cologne city center.


Automobiles in France didn’t escape the torch this year either, despite the deployment of 90,000 security forces. 945 cars were set on fire in Paris despite some 99,000 soldiers and police officers patrolling the country after two years of high-profile New Year’s Eve attacks.


According to the French interior ministry, most of the cars were either “totally destroyed” or “more lightly affected,” a 17% rise over last year’s car torchings according to The Telegraph. The custom is said to have began in Strasbourg, France in the 1990’s, in the city’s high-immigrant districts – which quickly caught on across the country.


French police arrested 454 people overnight, 301 of which were taken into custody. The French interior ministry had originally released the much lower figure of 650 cars torched, claiming “once again this year, the overall number of vehicles burned demonstrates that, however intolerable, the phenomenon is contained.”


The far-Right Front National, however, denounced what it called the government’s “extremely hazy security record”.


“The new interior minister Bruno Le Roux…(initially) didn’t communicate the number of vehicles burned and considers that the number of cars directly set on fire to be ‘contained’ while even this constitutes a significant rise” the FN said in a statement.


Torched cars, sexual assaults, and thugs beating up the police: just part of life in Europe’s new normal. Just don’t thank Angela Merkel’s “open door” policies for the outcome: you may be branded a extremist who gets their talking points from the KGB, and promptly sequestered.


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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Globalism: Destruction of Nations from Without and Within

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For this first piece of the New Year, I propose to take two points into consideration for the remainder of the year, and observe how each point is pursued in the march toward global governance.


  1. Using a combination of groupthink, social “needs” (in accordance with Maslow’s hierarchy), and contrived crises, the UN is pushing the “tightly-knit” human “community” mantra relentlessly, and

  2. Individual nations are becoming more despotic, more tyrannical, and more under the control of the three-tiered “hierarchy” of Oligarchs, politicians, and religious figureheads.

This statement was just released by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his New Year’s message to the world, following in lock-step to item #1 above:


“As we begin 2018, I call for unity. I truly believe we can make our world more safe and secure. We can settle conflicts, overcome hatred and defend shared values. But we can only do that together…. Unity is the path. Our future depends on it.”


The statement was reported in Sputnik News, and Guterres also mentioned the “threats” of nuclear war, global climate change, and the need for unity. For any who have not read or researched the topics, the Agenda 21 biodiversity paradigm is still being championed to take land away from people and place it under the “stewardship” of so-called wise and benevolent governments. Social engineering of cities and new ways to cram the masses of humanity into “stack-and-pack” housing units of 200-300 square feet are being implemented in China and experimented upon in the U.S. and other countries.


The globalists have been using the “immigrant” card to socially engineer countries in Europe, as well as the United States. Britain has experienced an influx of Indian and Pakistani “migrants” for more than half a century.  Continental Europe has been flooded: inundated with “migrants” who are completely different in ethnic and religious perspectives to their “host” nations.


Indeed, they are host nations: In the sense of a “host” that is carrying a foreign organism against its will. The European nations, predominantly Christian and ethnically homogenous to their respective national identities are being subsumed within an avalanche of unchecked migration (termed “immigration”) that is purposed with a devious objective.


The objective is to destroy nationalistic homogeneity from within, and collapse each nation’s borders, language, and culture to make the nations more malleable for global governance.


Regarding item #2, we are seeing another irrepressible wave of action leading toward tyranny: the surveillance nets of each nation tightening inexorably around their citizens. A prime example of this can be found in this article by Aaron Kesel of Activist Post entitled Russia Planning National Biometric Database For Banking Next Year, Expanding Worldwide Trend, released on 12/30/17. Here is an excerpt from that article:


“Russia is to start a biometric database for financial services starting next summer, the Central Bank of Russia said in a statement. The system, although not mandatory, will extend access to banking by letting customers open accounts without having to visit a banking branch. This is all in an effort to “digitize” financial services. The regulator noted that data would only be stored with a person’s consent.  However, what the biometric database will include is worrying to say the least. The biometric database will incorporate images of faces, voice samples and, eventually, irises and fingerprints.”


As you just read, “digitize” is nothing more than a convenient moniker to label the action of placing every transaction under electronic control and scrutiny. The database of biometrics has far more than is needed for any banking transaction. Although only Russia still currently has an “internal passport,” the restrictions for travel internally (that were maintained during the USSR) have been lifted.  None of the countries have an “internal passport.”


But almost all nations have a “national ID card,” and this functions in the same manner minus the “travel restrictions” …for now.


The omnipresent surveillance state is being created in each different nation. This surveillance state is further enabled “voluntarily,” by the citizens with their tracking devices (purposefully and erroneously labeled as cellular telephones/cell phones). This surveillance state is further enabled by the consumers, wading within their products in the stores, at times with the complacency of beeves, at other times (Black Friday) with the rapacity of wolves…these “herds” enable it: never questioning the cameras in every aisle, above every register.


The registers are computers to track inventory and simultaneously record purchases by bar-code down to the individual product number…assigning it to whatever smiling consumer is swiping the card to pay…the whole thing recorded for “benevolent posterity.” Every other ad on the radio is a “community service,” or a “benefit to the community,” type of ad…conditioning the masses for the inevitable acceptance of the velvet-swathed iron collars around their necks…the “cages” made of smart-chips and gizmos such as laptops and cell phones that report…report, mind you…on the subject’s activities and location.


Former General David Petraeus betrayed us…the American people…with his nonchalant “internet of things” pronouncement for the serfs while the Director of the CIA…although he betrayed himself with his own “proclivities” in the end. Edward Snowden gave us a “window” for what was going on within the Puzzle Palace and the intelligence community pertaining to surveillance over Americans.


No matter: the most bitter of all warnings are the ones that go unheeded…and the bitterness is most apparent when it is too late…when the heeded warnings would have reversed the course of things.


Jeff Sessions (why this guy hasn’t been ridden out of D.C. on a rail or been sent to jail is anyone’s guess) just legally (de facto, of course) rescinded provisions protecting citizens from debtor’s prison. You can read the article by Rachel Blevins here: Jeff Sessions Rescinds Legal Doc to Allow Police to Jail People for Being Poor.


One needs not look very far to see the changes being initiated in the United States. Come to Montana and see it firsthand: Canadians are given “carte blanche” entering the United States, as they come to Montana to visit…oh, and buy tax and duty-free cigarettes, cheese, and other products cheaper and more available than they can in their own country…and return there free as a breeze.


But if you’re an American visiting Canada? Prepare for our officials…U.S. officials…to give you the “third degree” before permitting a taxpaying, consumer-subject to depart the Land of the Free.


It’s all about conditioning the masses to accept the “community,” and the “hive” mentality…a march toward socialism and eventually globalism. It is all about destroying the last vestiges of nationalism…a process begun decades ago in the schools and universities. A global government that will not resemble the “benevolent” United Federation of Planets, as in Star Trek, but will rather take after George Orwell’s “1984,” a world where advanced technology will only be utilized to control man and reduce him to a point of omniscient surveillance and slavery, where escape will be impossible.


Controlling the world, next they will cull the herd: especially the generation…all of the generations…who learned to think critically and did not cringe in fear of the government every moment. We are on our way into the New Year, and moving toward a world of global governance, a slave-world that manifests itself more concretely each day.


Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne).  Mr. Johnson is also a Gunsmith, a Certified Master Herbalist, a Montana Master Food Preserver, and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape).  He lives in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with his wife and three cats. You can follow Jeremiah’s regular writings at SHTFplan.com or contact him here.


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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

French Mayors Panic As Migrants Overwhelm Cities, Beg Macron For Help

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge


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Percentage of immigrants in total population


Mayors from seven major French cities overwhelmed by the flow of migrants have written a joint letter to Paris published in LeMonde on Saturday, begging the government to step in and help.


According to the letter, the cities of Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulousa and Nantes are taking in “several thousand” refugees per month, which the mayors say is causing a social emergency as they are “backed up against a wall” and “completely saturated” by a seemingly endless flood of asylum seekers.


The year 2017 ends with a massive rise in the demand for asylum and the arrival of newcomers puts extreme tension – particularly with the onset of the cold wave – of the classic public and institutional policies. In a proportion never before known, the mechanisms allocated to housing asylum seekers, led by the State, often with the support of our communities, are indeed completely saturated, despite the steady increase the number of places … The evidence is there, before our eyes, in our streets, in homes and shelters: there is urgency.


Every month, several thousand people arrive in our cities. Integrating those recognized as refugees and helping those who have lost their right of asylum who still remain in our territory is a major issue. –Le Monde (translated)


The mayors point to a lack of shelters, and call on Paris to establish a “solidarity network” between the cities of France dedicated to addressing the flow of migrants, as well as an “enlarged meeting with the state at the highest level,” which the mayors say must act quickly by assuming its sovereign powers to “finance these developed actions and propose a clarified framework of work with the communities for a real plan of reception of the migrants.”


In other words – Paris needs to step up and dedicate more money and housing towards the migrant crisis.



In response to the letter, the French Interior Ministry proposed a resettlement scheme which would result in the relocation of some 20,000 housing units, “broken down regionally” to ensure “distribution balanced” refugees and mobilization of donors, reports AFP.


In addition, the authorities asked the prefects to establish “mobile teams” responsible for the identification of migrants in emergency accommodation, much to the chagrin of the associations. (Midecins du  Monde, Emmaus, …) who denounce a logic of “census,  labeling and  triage”. –AFP (translated)


As anyone who listened to the French Presidential debates gathered, France knows it’s got a massive problem with migrants. In October, after a 29 year old undocumented Tunisian man stabbed two women to death in the Southern city of Marseille, French President Emmanuel Macron revealed a new policy whereby illegal immigrants who commit crimes in France will face deportation.


“Even without new legislation we can take tougher measures and expel illegal immigrants if they commit a crime, whatever it may be,” Macron said.


France has been heavily affected by the migrant crisis. After an October 2016 relocation of some 6,000 migrants from the Calais “Jungle” camp across Europe, new asylum seekers continue to pour into the country and set up makeshift camps. Many migrants are sleeping on the streets of Paris, begging for money and angering local residents and sparking sanitary concerns. Last week, a group of Parisian protesters threatened to go on a hunger strike if police didn’t relocate approximately 100 Syrian and Afghan migrants from a northern Paris neighborhood.


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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Swedish Police “Cannot Cope” With Huge Numbers of Rapes Since Migrants Arrived





Paul Joseph Watson
September 12th, 2017
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This report was originally published by Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars.com


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A journalist investigating the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Sweden was told that police have not even interviewed the prime suspect two months later because authorities “cannot cope” with the sheer volume of cases since Sweden opened its borders to mass immigration two years ago.


Back in July, the 12-year-old girl was dragged into a restroom by an older man in the center of Stenungsund before being beaten, raped and threatened with death.


Knowing the identity of the culprit, the girl’s mother immediately reported him to police, but authorities have yet to even interrogate the suspect two months later despite knowing his name and address.


According to journalist Joakim Lamotte, the girl is still being confronted and taunted by the rapist on the streets of Stenungsund.



When Lamotte contacted authorities, he was told that the case hasn’t been acted on because police “cannot cope with the workload” of having so many rape cases to investigate.


“Do you know how many rapes we have?” Lamotte was told by the police officer in a conversation he recorded and uploaded to YouTube.


“No, I don’t. But I’ve talked to the mother and her daughter feels very bad because of this, and I know who this man is, I have his name, address, social security number and everything, and, I mean, you haven’t even interrogated him yet, isn’t that remarkable?” asked Lamotte.


“Well, you might think so, but we have so many similar issues and so few people available we cannot cope with the workload,” responded the police officer.


“That sounds unbelievable. A 12-year-old girl who is raped, it’s just a child,” said Lamotte.


“We have 3-year-old children that get raped,” responded the police officer, sounding clearly exasperated.


When asked if they were not able to prosecute rapists who molest 3-year-old children, the female officer responded, “Yes….these are the realities and it’s terribly regrettable. That’s all I can say about it.”


Rapes have skyrocketed in Sweden over recent years. Authorities have claimed that this is due to the definition of rape being changed, but the spike occurred long after the change was made. Sex crimes in the country have doubled since 2012. The most recently available statistics showed that immigrants were 5.5 times more likely to carry out sexual assaults.


Sex attacks as music festivals throughout Sweden are also soaring, with over 150 cases of assaults and 20 rapes being reported this summer.


Earlier this year, Peter Springare, veteran police investigator and former deputy head of the division for serious crimes at the police in Örebro, made headlines after he wrote a Facebook post in which he detailed how the country was in “chaos” due to a never ending epidemic of serious crimes being committed by Muslim migrants.


We previously highlighted Joakim Lamotte’s work back in February when he investigated the brutal gang rape of a Swedish woman who was racially abused by a group of men in Gothenburg who live streamed the assault to Facebook.


When Lamotte attempted to get an update on the case from police in Gothenburg, he was told it was being treated as “aggravated rape” but that “no one even has begun working with the case yet”.


According to a concerned mother who first brought the video to the attention of police in Gothenburg, she was shocked to see that they were disinterested and “sat and ate cheetos” while being seemingly more bothered by her for reporting the incident.



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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Trump Demands Mexico Deal With Cartels: “Take Care of Bad Hombres” Or U.S. Troops Will

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One thing is for certain, a new sheriff is in town.


Well, the phrase is underwhelming given the enormous power now (unduly) vested in the executive branch. But President Trump’s stylings as an international negotiator and commander-in-chief harken back to a simpler and more brazen day from the Old West, and he isn’t just shaking hands and promising to work on nebulous issues of cooperation.


With promises to build a wall, scale back immigration, send back criminals and welfare dependents and cut off the parasitism from South of the border, President Trump is now demanding that the Mexico President, Pena Nieto – widely viewed as a weak leader – stop the cartels if he could. As the Associated Press reports:



President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop “bad hombres down there” unless the Mexican military does more to control them, according to an excerpt of a transcript of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press.


“You have a bunch of bad hombres down there, and we’re going to get them out,” Trump told Pena Nieto, according to the excerpt given to AP. “You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I just might send them down to take care of it.”


A person with access to the official transcript of the phone call provided only that portion of the conversation to The Associated Press. The person gave it on condition of anonymity because the administration did not make the details of the call public.


The report described Trump as humiliating Pena Nieto in a confrontational conversation.



Openly humiliating another world leader is not the path that the past several presidents have taken. So this is certainly news.


If this report is accurate (Mexico has officially denied it, but another Mexican press agency confirmed that something like this conversation took place), it is a whole new ball game. Sending U.S. troops to take on Mexican gang violence that has claimed that lives of tens of thousands and made true stability and prosperity south of the border absolutely impossible, would be completely unprecedented in the 20th or 21st Centuries, and after decades of officially friendly relations – setting things back to about 1850 when the two countries were last at war.


Of course, just the opposite has been offered from our neighbor to the South. Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico, Jorge Castañeda Gutman, made a veiled threat on CNN to attack the U.S., supposing that if the U.S. ended the incentive for friendly cooperation, Mexico might unleash a new wave of cartel violence upon America – on purpose and with a vengeance.



Mexico has a lot of negotiating chips in this matter, Fareed, but it also has measures we could take in other areas. For example, the drugs that come through Mexico from South America, or the drugs that are produced here in Mexico all go to the United States. This is not our problem. We have been cooperating with the United States for many years on these issues because they’ve asked us to and because we have a friendly, trustful relationship. If that relationship disappears, the reasons for cooperation also disappear.



If anything can stop cartel violence, it may be an end to the drug war and prohibition, which has driven much of the illegal smuggling across borders, and a growing and heightened police state.


Short of that, U.S. troops, or special advisors might make a serious dent, but also risk blowback of counterinsurgency and war in the streets – not only in Mexico, but in the streets of America as well.


Let’s hope the best end surfaces quickly.


Avocados and other produce may skyrocket in price; day laborers may be forced back into their failing country and relations could deteriorate into outright hostility towards the gringo.


Trump is NOT willing to play friendly if playing friendly means congeniality in spite of a slap in the face to American interests. In his very first days, the new President-Sheriff has put Mexico, Iran, China and other players on notice, and has explicitly threatened to use American force to back up his tough words and straightforward demands.


For better or worse, this is something no president in memory or recent times has every attempted. We are in uncharted and very dangerous waters. Let us hope President Trump knows what he is doing.


The use of American troops is only meant as a last resort; but arguably, U.S.-Mexico relations are already there and Trump arrived at that point. Every other policy has failed for the past several decades.


How do you think things will play out?


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