Mexican border commentary

Biden visiting Mexico... what a Joke.

Growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, 17 miles north of the border (Reynosa, Mexico) we had a superb experience understanding Mexico and Mexicans. Friday nights would find us in the restaurants and bars in Reynosa - since they would serve liquor to high schoolers there. Actually, I drank enough to know I didn’t want to take it on as a lifelong daily experience. We generally were safe, going with multiple folks in a car and yes, even having a designated driver who touched not a drop. But, I am getting off track here.

The other thing we experienced was learning Spanish.. not so much in school but 70-80% of our classmates spoke Spanish at home in South Texas. Some of those friends continue to be close friends today..can you imagine a high school class from 1964 getting together annually for class reunions even now in our mid 70’s!!! Yes we do. Several classmates have “gone west” as we say in the military… and they are fondly remembered, even way back when.. I might add to top that list is my fellow high school track runner, Freddy Gonzales… who died in Viet Nam as a marine and received the Medal of Honor… He is still revered. He was a really good guy,

But getting back on track.. Biden goes to Mexico- big deal according to media. It is obvious that Mexico is under the control of the drug cartels. Well, that ain’t news. Maybe, just maybe parts of the USA (South Texas) are also influenced by cartels… hint hint and I won’t go further. But the recent article by Victor Davis Hanson was superb and I will link it here. Click on the link for him.

Dr Victor Davis Hanson

Dr Hanson is not only a superb Scholar, true American patriot, but he is surviving living in socialist California. Like Dr. Malone who I have referenced growing up on a farm in California.. Dr Hanson did as well. He relates his high school experiences and I find a lot of similarity.

His piece relates to the 20 million or even more “Mexicans” who were born in Mexico and came here to USA, or who are first generation Mexican Americans born on the soil here. Realize the Mexican President(s) have solved a real Mexican fiscal problem by moving the “pobrecitos” - poor Mexicans into the American welfare system and getting them off the Mexican welfare roles. That is why they are happy to see them go north. Hanson does point out that the Drug Cartels bring into Mexico 40-50 Billion dollars a year. Not mentioned is the similar amount sent from “Jose” back to his wife in Mexico money he has earned off the IRS system here in USA…. untaxed.. back into Mexico. I have frequently mentioned and even written elected leaders that we need to tax all money wire transferred south at a rate of 10-12% to reclaim some of those taxes. Amount sent— truly unknown but again likely 30-40 Billion a year. All of this is facilitated by the liberal 501c3’s and the NGOs along the border where they move the immigrants from Central America through Mexico, and then across the river (that costs 5500 dollars each payable to the cartel running Tamaulipas.).in Texas. Same 501c3’s and NGOs supported by tax dollars here, churches, donations from big business (who hires all those cheap workers?) I challenge you to randomly stop on a road being built, worked on and listen to the workers conversation… hint. they are not speaking Norwegian… or listen to the kitchen in a restaurant or the hotel maids cleaning your rooms.. Workers fixing your roof, or building new homes…You won’t hear any German or Arabic. They all are speaking Spanish. However, you cannot totally blame the big businesses… the Americans who would do this are sitting on their butts, playing video games and drawing a welfare check.. or their girlfriend and her kids are.

So your taxes are high and you sort of understand the “immigrants” utilize our welfare system… and utilize our health care services (don’t even think you can argue with me on that…. unless you have spent 49 years providing health care services like I did and a large portion ended up being no pay on may part… just did it because I was “on call”- slave to a hospital that required I come in at 2AM for emergency surgical issues where I knew I was doing it for free) That will be the basis for a future substack I think.

However, read about Aztlan.. You never heard of it. The socialists and many church groups are helping “retake” the Southwestern United States to create the nation of Aztlan. It will be the undoing of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Remember the US-Mexican war? where we the US invaded Mexico and went all the way to Mexico City. But when the smoke cleared, we in the US claimed all lands north of the Rio Grande and then across to California. The Mexicans want that land back and are regaining it via invasion. Look at the demographics data for states. May I be so crude as to say look at the populations of whites, blacks, and browns… The whites are plummeting. Texas now has less than 50% white citizens. The Hispanics (or whatever the woke crowd wants us to call brown skinned folks) are reproducing at a much higher rate. Actually that is not necessarily “bad” as the Hispanic family oriented folks are really much more conservative than the Democrats think. But…. the “socialist” republic of Aztlan is happening… the socialism part being easily explained by changes in the Democrat part from Ku Klux Klan days to now in the years after 2000 - certainly after the LBJ days- but I cannot quote LBJ about welfare because it would break all “woke” rules about writing today…...Oh - if you think I am making this Aztlan story up… look at the name of the superb dance group from my alma mater and home town college - was Pan American but now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley….Dance group?? named “The Aztlan Dancers”

Let me finish with a funny story. A Texas cowboy and a Mexican caballero were sharing a cold cerveza in a Reynosa bar.. They got into a discussion about the USA “taking” Mexico from the Mexicans back in they day… The Texan says “so what about it?” The caballero said - “well you guys took the northern half which has all the nice roads!”