In 1951 a communist sympathizer Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was elected as President of Guatemala. His plan to redistribute land by seizing lands from wealthy land owners and compensating them after handing large portions of their deeds over to the peasants angered many of these land owners including some within the military, US corporations like United Fruit and soon after, this  brought concern to the White House when the CIA learned that President Guzman was secretly meeting with the Soviet backed CGT. (SEE LINK)
 
Whether or not the US backed coup d’etat, which followed is approved or condemned by those who study it, The Cold War has a long list of casualties all over the globe and this event took place 56 years before the ICE raid in New Bedford, so we suggest Guatemalans stop pointing the fingers at the US and instead do so toward the mirror. Let’s also not lose sight of the fact that Guatemala is pleading with the young adults to stay and develop their nation but for many, this has fallen on deaf ears.

As for Mexicans illegally entering our nation at record levels each year, one has to question why they need to given the large amount allowed in with open arms and granted citizenship paths.

Mexico has been provided extremely handsome trade deals with the USA (NAFTA) and this has resulted in enhancing the incomes of hundreds of thousands of households (SEE LINK) but has not been a cure-all by any means. The Mexican government has not accomplished it’s goal to educate and train a national workforce ready to compete in a globalize economy. Mexico has also been playing catch-up with Canada who began the trade deal, although not in name, with the US since 1988, six years earlier than NAFTA and the inclusion of Mexico. That combined with the peso crisis of 95’-96’ has left us with the reality that net jobs are down in Mexico and too many of the needed young adults are crossing the border into America both legally and illegally.

El Salvador- Another Central American nation with recent violent history, natural disasters and for millions, economic despair. Last year El Salvador signed into CAFTA , which passed in the US House of Reps 217-215. Skepticism is understandable in El Salvador since most of the provisions were negotiated behind closed doors and the propaganda brought to them was funded partly by the US State Dept.

In the end though, we must also consider several factors.

America has absorbed 7,841,ooo+ Mexicans to become legal citizens just in the last decade. Some 750,000+ Central Americans became citizens in the 1990s. It is not the fault of America if corruption, natural conditions and global competition outside of the US harm the economies of our southern neighbors. They effect us as well as we learned when Katrina happened. The formation of the European Union and the rise of a hybrid capitalist-communist eco-power in China are events very tough to pin on America. The left loves to blame the US for the woes of every nation on the planet but facts contradict the accusation. In fact the United States, which is 5% of the world population, is the provider for the more charity than most continents combined. You’d never know it if you live in Massachusetts since the Generosity Index ranks us #49 out of 50 states in charitable practice. The secular left in power here has basically removed the practice from the individual. “Why should I pay?”
Is the school of thought here. The state pays for the poor and should not only do this for Americans but for anyone who navigates through our lax security. No longer is the moral conscience of the individual challenged to do something about human suffering themselves and out of their own pocket. Look at the amount given to the children of the MBI raid by the Massachusetts governor and congressional delegation; $0. If every household that could, sent $25 per month to Guatemala or El Salvador by sponsoring a child through anyone of the reputable charities that can see to it, this exodus out of Central and South America would be slowed greatly.

World's most charitable nations:

A country's social and political cultures influence how much money citizens give to charity, according to a November 2006 study by England's Charities Aid Foundation that ranks philanthropic donation as a percentage of gross domestic product. Among nations surveyed, these 10 are the most generous.

• 1. United States, 1.67 percent of GDP
• 2. United Kingdom, 0.73
• 3. Canada, 0.72
• 4. Australia, 0.69
• 5. South Africa, 0.64
• 6. Ireland, 0.47
• 7. Netherlands, 0.45
• 8. Singapore, 0.29
• 9. New Zealand, 0.29
• 10. Turkey, 0.23

Federal tax laws -- notably low income tax, plus breaks for donations -- are often cited for American's generosity. As is religion, which drives one-third of U.S. charitable giving.

The left tends to obsess over the fact that the US spends more on it’s military than most continents do as well. Perhaps it doesn’t come up as a topic when the US stops the Hitlers, the Milosevics, and the invasions like that of Iraq into Kuwait etc. Nor does this complaint seem to carry over to the massive US Naval task force rescue ability, which rushed to Indonesia following the 2004 Tsunami. Thousands of military men and women worked millions of hours to rescue feed, clothe the flooded and overwhelmed victims and worked tirelessly as the whim of our president to repair the coastal areas scarred by Mother Nature.

The indifference of the good deeds was also muted a year earlier when President Bush sent tons of life saving assets to Bam, Iran following the earthquake there in 2003.

I certainly don’t want to belittle the dire conditions of our neighbors to the south, but at the same time, I don’t want to share in their economic situation, I don’t want my children to either. I don’t want the corrupt drug cartels and vicious gangs to take root in my region and I don’t want my fellow Americans to see their jobs taken or wages deflated when they aren’t taken by illegal aliens who greatly harm our medical and economic resources more by the day. We haven’t even touched on the fact that our national security and intelligence communities are as drained as the Massachusetts DSS when one considers the fact that terrorists are sifting through the borders and ports the very same way and the illegal masses make it next to impossible to focus on these very relevant entrances. This point has yet to come up anywhere but I’m making it.

We will have some 25,000+ wounded veterans to care for and another 3 million service men and women who will return home one day after this war and will need and deserve the resources they will find themselves competing for with illegal aliens! Enough is enough and now is the time when we must say, “America First!” March with me, gather your friends and family and show the opposition in this debate a few things. One is that Americans are charitable but CHARITY STARTS AT HOME. Two is that we can’t offer what we don’t have and if the far left has it’s way in this debate, America will find herself in the same dire situation that the financers of this effort want us in. Eventually, we will have nothing to offer, nothing to compete for and nothing but the realization that we were drained from abroad and from the enemy within.

I will be announcing the time and date soon. stay tuned. You will find the time and date also at www.newbedford360.com when the annoncement is made.