La Jornada: US Immigration Reform Offers Mexico 'The Full Hotdog' La Jornada
go to original July 1, 2013

Seal the border now and regularize migrtants afterwards. This is the meaning of the U.S. leadership's project of "immigration reform", which is, in reality, one more section in the broader national security wall of the United States. Last week, the Senate approved the completion of the gringo wall between the two nations, of which some 1,200 kilometers [746 miles] remains to be built. Also, the number of agents on the boundary line will be doubled, and more and better surveillance technology systems will be used, among them, the famous drones.

The strong police and technological barrier intends to prevent the arrival of Mexicans and Central Americans to a nation living under the growing fear of terrorist attacks committed by foreigners arriving illegally in its territory. In fact, the Calderon administration that was so dependent on Washington allowed the development of an inhuman policy of containment of travelers from southern Mexico toward the imperial north. Aggression against migrants, mostly Central Americans has been a barbaric form of inhibition of the flow of irregular labor, with the cartels as enforcers, the Mexican government as an accomplice by omission and tolerance, and the United States as the final beneficiary.

Now, Washington has offered Mexico a presumed whole enchilada, which is really is just a hot dog. It couldn't be otherwise, since what is in the process of legislative approval isn't the product of an organized struggle by Mexicans in the United States, but the calculations of the elite of that country, naturally and understandably attentive to their interests and in no way attentive to the interests of the labor force from the neighboring yard. That is why the first desires being served are those of the most conservative segments, the taking of full control of their part of the border with Mexico, and then approving a complicated and long process of stages of regularization of the millions of undocumented Mexicans.

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