Who said our media is not biased???

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There has been something happening along our border with Mexico for a number of years that is recently starting to get soem press here.. Inaccurate, Biased, and down right UNTRUTHFUL press.

For years, armed American civilians have been going out on "Patrols" along the border HUNTING illegal immigrants. Yes.. I do mean HUNTING... As in with guns..As in MURDER. But they get away with it.. NOW, some yahoo, red-neck "Patriot" is purposing making it legit by naming it the "Minute Men"

Recently, when I was down in Mexico, the newspaper reported that certain drug cartels were offering large bounties on the heads of these so called Minute Men. The people around me all cheered. I was a bit shocked, So I inquired about it..

It is obvious that the drug cartels are NOT offering this bounty for alturistic reasons.. Obviously, The Minute Men make smuggling drugs across the border more difficult , but the people of Mexico are sick of hearing about thier citizens being hunted down like animals while crossing the border and having it COMPLETLY ignored by the American media and authorities. This "offer" of bounties was seen as a means to possibly draw some attention to the travesty that has been happening at the border every night for YEARS...

Well.. The American government and Media found a way around it again.. It is so fucking typical.. We as a nation have become so skilled at projecting evil outwards so that we don't have to claim our own.. It really pisses me off...

The American State department has issued a "Travel Warning" to Mexico sighting Murder and Kidnapping ALONG THE BORDER TOWNS as part of MEXICAN Drug TURF WARS... It's such BULLSHIT. They even manage to bring Al-Queda into it..

Check it out:

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2005/04/25/daily48.html

Comments

Here a few thought from a Mexican

[babybearboy.livejournal.com]

Well It really bothers me the whole immigration topic. I know theres alot americans that are angry at illegal hispanics taking their jobs. Excuse me?? I worked for almost 3 years in the most deplorable conditions, (I was legal though and still never got a chance to improve) and I never saw an american doing that kind of work. I had 2 american citizens under my supervision, one of them lasted 1 day and the other one... the poor girl was there for two weeks and the whole time, she didnt eat lunch at all because she just couldnt stand the smell of pig shit aournd her and on her hands..
Why do we emmigrate?? Let me tell you why.. And this came from talks that I have with my peers at work, most of them (95%) were illegal. Because our economies, they do not have an oppportunity to survive in our own countries. Juan (one of so many I got to meet) told me that he would never go back to Mexico, he was 46 years old, had no education because he was put to work since he was a kid, he was diabetic and didnt want to go back to the times he would have to go and collect dead chickens outside of a poultry factory, so he and his family would be able to eat, her wife had become an expert on collecting rotten fruits and veggies at the dumpsters at market and try to make the best balanced meal out of rotten fruits and chickens.
At least on the USA he had a car, a decent house (trailer park), but most important, a way to provide his family with a decent meal and education, so they wouldnt have to suffer what he was.
Most of them had brought their families with them or after they arrived and got something safe for them, how? smuggling them trhough the border. Spouses and baby kids, they knew the risks of it, maybe not to see them again, because some yuppies think its fun to hunt them as animals or becasue they got sick under the heat of the dessert. But it was that or not seeing them anyway because they didnt want to go back to their own countries and suffer.
For me?? for me was easy, since I was a kid I had my visa (you must be wondering why all of these people dont get their own instead of risking their lives), but in order to get a visa, at that time my dad and later I had to prove to the American Embassy I had a stable job, a bank account with money on it of course and properties in Mexico that would make me come back to my country. Then I got a scholarship to get my masters in the USA then got my work visa. Still with a masters degree I was doing labor work. For me working under those circumstances was insane, everyday I used to think that I wasnt meant to be doing that kind of job, still my compnay didnt think the same way I did. But for a guy without education and good skills, that was good, he was doing the same in their own country and not making a living, at leas on the USA they have more than they ever dreamed.
INS and IRS know about all of us, to the point that would let them cash their income tax that they made under another name, why??? Uncle Sam cant touch that money.. so its money that its out of circulation. So how do they claim that money? IRS gives them a "A" number so they can cash that money and put it back on circulation. Incredible isnt it? So I know about my problem, talk about closing borders, hunting my labor force, also kidnap them and make them work as slaves, (theres lots of stories believe me) treat them like shit and during tax time, allow them to put money back on circulation.
And if Alqaeda was to enter the country, believe me they wont do it as we do it. Wanna know whats the easiest way to enter your country?? Get some fake documents that would prove ur financial status in Mexico or your own country, get your visa, cross teh border and take a train or an airplane, at least they have never asked me for my permit to be more than 30 miles away from the border.. They do it if you by car, and if you are driving pretend to be deaf and get a Daddy that knows sign language..
Thats it
more to come on this.. Im looking for newspaper articles