Reminder: This is what Mexico looks like every day
This is mild as fuck reality. This doesn't even touch on the routine beheadings, scalping, hanging mutilated bodies over bridges, and literal warfare on the streets between the Narco, the Army, and the cartels.
And this is America's fault. We continue to let this happen.
The Sinaloa Cartel is considered by the United States Intelligence Community to be the "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world." They recently thanked Presidents Bush and Obama for allowing the War on Drugs to continue and be successful.
As though it wasn't hard enough already, the cartel and other gangs routinely illusion people into thinking they will take them across the border, instead will be kidnapped.
All the while, US Banks are making interest on the entire industry and knowingly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangsDuring a 22-month investigation by agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and others, it emerged that the cocaine smugglers had bought the plane with money they had laundered through one of the biggest banks in the United States: Wachovia, now part of the giant Wells Fargo.
The authorities uncovered billions of dollars in wire transfers, traveller's cheques and cash shipments through Mexican exchanges into Wachovia accounts. Wachovia was put under immediate investigation for failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering programme. Of special significance was that the period concerned began in 2004, which coincided with the first escalation of violence along the US-Mexico border that ignited the current drugs war.
Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court. In March 2010, Wachovia settled the biggest action brought under the US bank secrecy act, through the US district court in Miami. Now that the year's "deferred prosecution" has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear. It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.
More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business.
I don't give a fuck about the tax costs associated with illegal immigrants when we are the damn reason they are immigrating.
I can not possibly complain about Mexicans without feeling like a fucking as
shole. I can not get wrapped up in my white people problems so much that I need to complain about "how many there are", "oh, but they are breaking the law", and "they aren't paying taxes" and ignoring the fact that there is a whole bunch of fucking oxshit going on in the world and continue to not do anything about it.
So, personally, I think we should stop being such stupid as
sholes and think about how in the world will they ever forgive our ignorance and greed before we get to "but, those people who don't make enough to be taxed anyway aren't being taxed".