Economic fence = Employer Sanctions.

First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit to Mexico City, April 14, 2010 is discussed in a juxtaposition of what “she will be told” against what actually exists. This is not to slam the Obama Administration. The drug war has been going on for 40 years and we are sending a half a billion dollars to Mexico City each year. However, since 2006, the casualties of this war in Mexico have been astronomical and the majority of its victims is the poor, the uneducated and the exploited.

“First Lady Michelle Obama arrived in Mexico City Tuesday night after making a stop in Haiti on her first official trip abroad without the president. Her trip to Mexico comes as a new report by the Mexican government has found the death toll from the so-called drug war is much higher than previously thought. Nearly 23,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since a US-backed military crackdown on cartels began more than three years ago. The report said 2009 was the deadliest year in the drug war, with over 9,600 people killed. The death toll is on track to be even higher in 2010. We speak to reporter Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields.”

If you are truly interested in the plight of illegal immigration and some of what drives them across the border, beyond drugs and other criminal activity, read the book “Murder City, Ciudad, Juarez and And The Global Economy’s New Killing Fields”, by Charles Bowden with photographs by Julian Cardona. You will not only learn about the lack of respect for human life that is pervasive in Mexico, but you will also learn facts never expressed by either the right, center, or left leaning press: that no one really knows how many people are killed, who those killed are, in many cases, or the fact that border town American factories like those found in Ciudad, Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and Chihuahua, Mexico pay an average of $75.00 a week, while the cost of living is 90% that of neighboring American towns. Illegal immigrants aren’t the source of economic evil in America; they are the effect of evil policies by both the Mexican and American government. This book reads like a novel. It is fast paced, easy to grasp and it will astound you. Please, take the time to pick up a copy, read it and then pass it to as many friends as you can. It may not be as glamorous as getting anti-40B legislation signatures for a public initiative, but it can be educational enough to make a real difference in the lives of many on both sides of the border.

Listen to the author discuss the waste of money and lives attributed to a “drug war” already lost. His common sense, straight forward remarks about drugs, killings, police corruption, military corruption, and corruption at the highest levels of government, e.g. President Philipe Calderone, a man whom the Democrats gave a standing ovation to for remarking on how “severe” the Arizona law is. This interview will make your stomach turn by the end, if you have any humanity at all. The book will have you waking from sleep feeling the stain of blood, the remorse of the guilty and the stomach churning agony felt by the tortured innocents just before they die. The interview with Charles is preceded with a newscast introduction of a few minutes. Be patient. Once Charles is allowed to speak, if you listen, you won’t notice the 34 minutes that went by.