• Video shows U.S. agents trying to dump injured man over Mexican border
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https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/video-shows-u-s-agents-trying-dump-injured-man-over-n861146 The incident occurred at the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, California on March 27, 2017 and sparked a complaint by Mexican officials to CBP, which launched an investigation that ended with the agents being reprimanded, but ultimately keeping their jobs.
Fuck me, that's horrifying. Do we know how far up the chain the decision on what to do with them went? I think it's clear what I'm asking, but to clarify: did Trump give the order that they can keep their jobs?
It really is time to rethink the operation, and even possibly the existence, of modern, western border patrol agencies and policies.
There's real solutions we have to eliminate the Mexico border-crossing problem entirely. First and foremost, drag Mexico up to our economic level and deepen our trade roots with them so that border crossing are as consequential as they are with Canada. We've been trying that with NAFTA, but now we have Trump and other nativists freaking out that Mexico made 100% gains while the US made only 50% gains, because obviously that means NAFTA is unfair. Even though the US is making way more by earning $500 from a base $1000 than Mexico is by earning $300 off a base $300. To fix NAFTA, we need real international enforcement mechanisms for labor rights, and a strong plan to increase Mexican wages and labor standards in concert with American standards, so that we can fix the entire panic about jobs "fleeing to Mexico." If wages and labor standards are equalized over a few decades, there will be zero incentive to move factories and work to Mexico, since it'll be just as expensive there - can't skimp on safety regulations, can't underpay workers, can't do any of that shit. If we could actually enforce labor rights internationally through NAFTA, like the EU does throughout European member states, the entire "trade imbalance" argument wouldn't exist. Mexicans wouldn't be crossing over the border illegally, because they wouldn't be desperate for economic opportunities earned by massively disparate wage/labor regulations. Even then, illegal Mexican immigration is way the fuck down, to the point that they're most likely a minority of the population of illegal immigrants in the US. Legalize weed, assist Mexico in crushing the cartels wholesale, and bolster NAFTA's existing labor-rights enforcement mechanisms in order to actually improve the lives of Mexican citizens so that they really have no reason to attempt to illegally travel to the US. Suddenly, wow, look at that, we have a valuable trade partner and close economic and political ally on our southern border. Mexicans have the resources and capital to purchase American-made goods more readily. Factories aren't sent to Mexico for the same reason they aren't sent to Canada - because they're just as expensive. Automation reigns. Illegal immigration on the southern border becomes more and more of a non-issue. Or we could build a really big wall and have Arpaio personally strip-search brown-skinned people before chucking them over the border in 110F heat. That's an option, too, sort of like fixing your headache by trepanning your skull and pouring bleach inside when you have some ibuprofen right next to you.
I think that Mexico would have a real shot if it wasn't basically run by cartels and corruption. And we can't do anything to help that out because it looks really bad if we were to go in there and clean up all of the cartels and corruption.
The issue is that whilst trade deals persist with Mexico that disadvantage it economically, cartels and corruption are going to have a stranglehold on the country. The cartels and corruption didn't come out of nowhere, and it didn't persist and get worse out of nowhere. For there to be a return to something like normal, exploitation of the entire country's economy and workforce needs to cease.
Of course. But I think at the same time, they are bringing it on themselves by lowering their standards to attract more and more trade deals. I'm basically agreeing with him that the illegal immigration situation is primarily due to standard of living in mexico, and adding on that I think it would be in a much better position if it weren't full of corruption and cartels, but there really is nothing significant that we can do about that. Legalizing drugs like marijuana might do a little, but I don't think it will do enough to turn around their situation.
It's a bit rich to say that they're 'bringing it on themselves' as if it's the choice of each and every Mexican to enact these trade deals instead of the choice of politicians who want to serve the global rich. It's also ridiculous to say such a thing as if this is a thing that just happens, instead of a thing that's happening because other governments and corporations are enacting this pressure.
Well I was kind of talking about the corrupt politicians that are in power, not the regular citizens. Those same politicians could have a much better life and country if they wouldn't exploit their people for companies. I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been. My bad.
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