Crime, illegal immigration, and media bias

There's a transcript of a discussing by Heather MacDonald and others here. From her talk:
[... discussing the Washington Post editorial from August 10th "The Reality of Gangs"...]

Even as the Post called for more social spending, it completely ignored the most salient feature of Mara Salvatrucha, which is the astoundingly high number of illegals within its ranks. The Justice Department estimates that more than 50 percent of all members of Mara Salvatrucha are illegal. I talked to an LAPD Officer who deals with this gang daily, and he puts the figures much higher. I've heard cops tell me they think it's almost 100 percent. I think that's too high, but it's somewhere between there.

Now, there seems to be a taboo on talking about the contribution that illegal aliens make to criminal activity in this country. When I first started writing about this I would ask people in the LAPD, and I felt like I was violating some nicety of social convention. It was something that polite company is not supposed to address...

...In all of the stories that the [L.A.] Times has been running about [the Jose Raul Pena case], they've mentioned only once the fact that Pena was here illegally. The New York Times has written about…the evil LAPD. They haven't deigned to mention Pena's status a single time...

[The Los Angeles Times digs into the events preceding the Temecula town hall meeting and] the L.A. Times concluded, and I quote, "The agents may have scoped out the areas on their own, finding areas where large numbers of undocumented immigrants gather." Now, this to the Times was a scandal. This is the sort of investigative reporting that the Times prides itself on: the fact that immigration agents actually took some initiative to make arrests on their own...

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The post quoted below(from the MarkinMexico blog) seems to have received very little attention. When you read it remember that Mexico is the world's ninth largest economy and the eighth largest oil exporter. It has (presumably excluding narcotraficantes) 11 billionaries, the same number as Italy and, for the period of 01012005 through 08312005 has received US$13 billion in remittances from Mexicans living abroad (mainly, of course, in the US). So there is no compelling economic reason for the behavior cited below, it is simply the habit of corruption and official irresponsibility.

http://tinyurl.com/9x7ak
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When Vicente Fox was elected el presidente, he appointed one Victor Lichtinger as his Secretary of the Environment. Mr. Lichtinger, educated at Stanford (just like Tiger Woods), reviewed data from his field inspectors that showed almost every resort beach on the west coast of Mexico was poisoning its water (raw sewage, industrial chemicals, heavy metals, chemicals). He went to the prez and a lot of money was sent to various state governors to clean up the mess and upgrade, replace, install new waste treatment facilities in places like the Cabos, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and Ixtapa (Zihuatenejo). A year or so went by and Secretary Lichtinger's inspectors continued to point out that the situation was getting worse, not better. In fact, there were some beaches that, if you spent too much time in the water, you developed lesions and open sores on your skin. Bad. 16 of Mexico's most popular beaches suffered from pollution (and still do). For instance, in Zihuatenejo, the inspectors found fecal coliform levels in the marina, near the sewage treatment plant, at 1,500 parts per 100 milliliters of water, far beyond health standards. Untreated sewage and wastewater from Acapulco's 1 million residents and hundreds of thousands of tourists, was identified as a major source of contamination to the surrounding bay and coastline. Official reports in February, 2003, estimated that 30% of the city's beaches were not fit for human use.

So Secretary Lichtinger went public. "People and tourists have a right to know this," he foolishly stated. He went to the only newspaper that has shown a decided lack of fear of the feds, the states and the locals, Mexico City's "Reforma". Reforma sent its reporters and photographers out to the resorts and published a horrifying expose, complete with photos of skin lesions and open running sores, garbage and trash floating around, dead fish floating belly up, laboratory analyses of the water, etc..

And the government's reaction? The governor of Guerrero state (Acapulco, Ixtapa, Zihuatenejo) blasted Lichtinger and the federal government for endangering the tourist industry, of which he no doubt gets a big cut. Enraged state politicians insisted the pollution was caused by runoff from rainfall in faraway villages in the Sierras that lack plumbing. But the map suggests that the rivers that run through them do not flow into Zihuatanejo. "This one piece of data from five months ago could destroy this entire community," said Zihuatanejo's former mayor, Armando Federico Gonzalez. The opposition chimed in from the various affected state and federal congresses, also accusing the federal government of endangering the tourism fat cow. And Fox's response? Lichtinger was fired. He's now writing a book about the Fox government in collaboration with Aguilar Zinser, formerly Fox's ambassador to the UN. Zinser is the one who said that the US treats Mexico like it was our "back yard", a true statement. It's not only, "Don't drink the water," but also, "Don't go near the water."
When I play golf here, and I mean anywhere in Mexico, I carry three towels. If I hit a ball into any water - pond, lake, creek - I retrieve it with a ball retriever or a club, NEVER by hand. I pick up the retrieved ball with a towel, dry it completely and then drop it for the next shot without touching it with bare hand or glove. I also dry off the club or the ball retriever before they go back in the bag. You absolutely have no way of knowing what's in that water but can safely assume that it ain't nice, whatever it is. Towel number two, incidentally, is for cleaning the usual debris off of clubheads and towel number three is for face and hands. All 3 towels are white and washed after each round with bleach. Do I take the same precautions on a golf course in the US? Hell no
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Cultures don't spring from the ground, they are created (or destroyed ) by people. The following NYT story gives us a hint of what may await us after the reconquista. Many of the abuses described below have happened in the US(and we only make comparisons with fairly recent cases because such DNA technology is so recent)but the severity and frequency is clearly much greater in Mexico.
http://tinyurl.com/86mrn

Juarez, Mexico -- Victor Javier Garcia still has a dozen marks across his abdomen and genitals from the burning cigarettes the police used to torture him into falsely confessing to being a serial killer.

It made no difference to a lower court judge that the DNA tests on the bodies identified as his victims were not conclusive. Or that a forensics expert testified that he had been ordered by his superiors to plant false evidence. Or even that witnesses retracted their testimony, saying the police had threatened them into making false statements. Garcia was sentenced to 50 years anyway.

Troubling as it is, Garcia's case is not an isolated one. International observers, human rights workers and federal authorities say it illustrates a disturbing pattern of malfeasance by state law enforcement authorities responsible for investigating Mexico's most gruesome murder mystery: the deaths of more than 350 women in this border area over the last decade, including at least 90 raped and killed in similar ways.

Whether through incompetence, corruption or a lurid connection to the killings, the bungling and cover-ups are so extensive, federal investigators say, that the police and other officials have themselves become suspected of links to the crimes.
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Hey Fred is that a form of English that you're using there?

ask why are our borders still opened when the government of the so called usa has known about this for 40 years? by guns you may someday become the new jew.

So what do you think about this? Or do you usually just cut and paste like this? I've noticed that it seems to be a pretty recurrent theme on your blog, wacko. It's bad form...makes it seem like you dont do much of your own thinking.