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Flood of Teenage Immigrants? The DHS’s Solution: ID Card Compliance

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“Some U.S. Senators think the REAL ID law does not go far enough. What we need is an ID card with extensive data. Which two Senators are supporters for a high tech biometric ID card? Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham. Does this come as a surprise?  How can the DHS reduce public resistance? I’ll tell you how: with stories about a tidal wave of illegal immigration.  There is no tidal wave of immigration. It’s an uptick in what has become a fading social phenomenon. There is tidal wave of orchestrated stories about teenagers from Central America. As media orchestrations go, this is one of the more effective examples.  The REAL ID card is part of the government’s inevitable quest for more data.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/12753.cfm

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What Really Drove the Children North

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“To make the ‘Obama did it’ hypothesis work, it is necessary to defeat the claim that the migrants are fleeing intolerable violence. This has given rise to the oft-repeated line that ‘those countries’ have always been very violent.   That is patently untrue.  Back in the early 1990s, drugs from South America flowed through the Caribbean to the U.S. But when a U.S. interdiction strategy in the Caribbean raised costs, trafficking shifted to land routes up the Central American isthmus and through Mexico. With Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s war on the cartels, launched in 2007, the underworld gradually slithered toward the poorer, weaker neighboring countries.”

http://online.wsj.com/articles/mary-ogrady-what-really-drove-the-children-north-1405892801

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US Drug Policy and the Border Child Immigration Crisis

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“The majority of the child immigrants are coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Those Northern Triangle countries suffered not only devastating civil wars in the 1980s, with the US supporting conservative, often dictatorial governments (or, in the case of Honduras, serving as a platform against the government in Nicaragua), but also chronic poverty and income inequality.  They are also the countries feeling the brunt of the expansion of powerful Mexican drug trafficking organizations who, in response to increased pressure from the Mexican government (assisted by US aid under the Merida agreement) began pushing south into the region around 2008.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/jul/19/us_drug_policy_and_border_immigration

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Mexico: The World’s New China

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“Mexico is now the 7th largest auto producer in the world, with China and the US in the lead.  While labor costs play a significant role in the growing production disparity between Mexico and Brazil, Mexico also has the advantage of lower taxes and duties. So while most of the cars made in Brazil remain in that country, 8 of every 10 cars produced in Mexico ultimately end up being exported with more than half arriving here in the US.  In addition to lower labor costs and taxes, Mexico is winning a bigger slice of the automotive pie thanks to its relatively well-educated labor force, as nearly half of working Mexicans have a secondary education as compared to less than 15 percent a decade ago.”

http://www.investingdaily.com/20711/mexico-the-worlds-new-china-2/

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Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels

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“Given the DEA’s historic relationship with the Sinaloa cartel, and the agency’s fury over legalized marijuana, it almost seems like the DEA wants to crush the legal weed market in order to protect the interests of their cartel friends. Almost.  ‘The DEA doesn’t want the drug war to end,’ said retired federal agent Terry Nelson, when asked about a possible connection between the agency’s hatred of legal pot and its buddies in Sinaloa. ‘If it ends, they don’t get their toys and their budgets. Once it ends, they aren’t going to have the kind of influence in foreign government. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but where there’s smoke there’s probably fire.’

https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels

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Mexican pot farmers give up, switch to supplying heroin to pill addicts

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“With the wholesale price of marijuana falling — driven in part by decriminalization in sections of the United States — Mexican drug farmers are turning away from cannabis and filling their fields with opium poppies.  Mexican heroin is flooding north as U.S. authorities trying to contain an epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse have tightened controls on synthetic opiates such as hydrocodone and OxyContin. As the pills become more costly and difficult to obtain, Mexican trafficking organizations have found new markets for heroin in places such as Winchester, Va., and Brattleboro, Vt., where, until recently, needle use for narcotics was rare or unknown.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tracing-the-us-heroin-surge-back-south-of-the-border-as-mexican-cannabis-output-falls/2014/04/06/58dfc590-2123-4cc6-b664-1e5948960576_story.html

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Oil Nations Put Out Welcome Mat for Western Companies

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“For years, Mexico, Iran, Iraq, Algeria and Libya—most of them among the top 10 producers world-wide—were fiercely nationalistic when it came to oil. They either offered Western companies punitive terms to develop their reserves or didn’t do business with them at all, controlling their supplies tightly with state-owned companies.  Now, facing a range of problems, these nations are offering Western companies generous deals to win their help.   In Iran, Libya and Algeria, the population is addicted to low energy prices and high oil-funded social spending. All of that is in jeopardy as countries struggle to boost production—and new revenue is needed to quell potential unrest.”

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303663604579503920995245090

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A Few Years Ago, A Mexican Drug Lord’s House Got Raided…

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“A cash pile this size is approximately $200 million.”

http://www.viralnova.com/mexican-drug-lord-house/

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Litecoin, Dogecoin ATMs Launching This Week in Mexico

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“Mexico is slated to get it’s first two bitcoin ATMs on the week of Monday, March 16th in Tijuana — just below the border from San Diego, California.  Operated by start-up Bitcoin42, the two-way ATMs are the first in Mexico, but also take the title of being the world’s first litecoin and dogecoin ATMs.  One of the devices will accept Mexican pesos, the other will accept U.S. Dollars.  The ATM units (which Bitcoin42 has not yet shown off) are to be positioned at the BIT Center (Business, Innovation, Technology), and 10 percent of generated profits collected using the machines will be donated non-profit associations local to Tijuana (the customer will be able to choose which organization the funds go to).”

http://newsbtc.com/2014/03/16/bitcoin-atms-support-litecoin-dogecoin-launching-week-mexico/

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Company fined for smog-forming compounds in ‘Gorilla Snot’ hair gel

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“It was the styling product’s smog-forming compounds that prompted California air regulators to take action against Midway Importing Inc.  The Houston-based company, which distributes health and beauty care products nationwide, paid $213,000 in fines for selling the line of hair gel in violation of consumer product regulations designed to protect air quality, the California Air Resources Board said Monday.  During routine inspections in 2010, state investigators bought Moco de Gorila Gel Estilo Galan hair gel.  The state board estimated the hair products contributed an additional 23.9 tons of pollutants into California’s air and fined the company $8,900 per ton.”

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/12/science/la-sci-sn-hair-gel-gorilla-snot-smog-fine-20130812

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