Immigration: Mexico's President Should Look to His Own House

... Calderon condemning Arizona’s somewhat flawed new immigration law. This was not only in bad taste for such an “honored” guest, but left me wondering what it has to do with him, other than the fact he is able to have the US support millions of his own people who then send our money back to Mexico.

Of course, in the now usual President Obama style, he showed sympathy with this latest in a long series of corrupt and elitist Mexican regimes, but stopped short of condemning Arizona.

I’ve long found it mystifying how Mexicans and Mexican Americans protest here about... (more)

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I Want To Move To Mexico. Where's My Immigrant Advocate?

I have traveled a lot in beautiful Mexico. I love that country, the culture, the food and most of all, the people. I like it so much, it is my intention to move there, for at least awhile, in about a year and spend some real time there, as I explore this Latin world in depth. I think about it every day, my heart is totally pumped at the thought of adventure and education in a place I only know from what I have gleaned with a week here or three weeks there.

The problem is that immigrating to Mexico is not a simple thing. The Mexican government has set enough obstacles to ensure that only... (more)

Tags: california, police, illegal immigration, education, mexico

A Light Bulb Moment On Moving To Mexico

... I am beginning to understand something. Call me dense. I get called every other imaginable pejorative by readers, so why not add dense, thickheaded, numbskull, dunderhead? I answer to all of those names and even others that are too wickedly vile to repeat.

When my wife and I moved to Mexico in 2003, we came with a radically different philosophy of expatriation than the one many of our fellow expatriates hold. We believed that expatriation should look something like this:Expatriation is the process by which an intense integration occurs whereby the individual of another culture is... (more)

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The Politics Of Expatriating To Mexico

Writing articles about Americans who expatriate to Mexico is not fun. If you are an expat who realizes you got bamboozled by the "There's-a-Fantasy-Island-Welcoming-Party-waiting-just-for-you rhetoric," and you want to say so, forget it! You will be slandered into silence or threatened or both! And why do Fakepats attack? They do so mostly out of delusional thinking. They think that to express an opinion stemming from an expatriation philosophy that differs from theirs is threatening. They think you are out to get them. They take exception that you have the mind-boggling thought that to be... (more)

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A Tale of Two Cities - Down Mexico Way

MEXICO CITY It took a little over two hours to get from the airport to my hotel in the Reforma area of Mexico City. I was a fortunate one, as I had a personal driver that had been hired by a friend and he was able to navigate the scribble-scrabble layout of the streets of this enormous city. I simply sat back and mumbled "go, speed racer, go" to myself, as Antonio weaved his way up one Calle and down the next. As a passenger, death seemed the inevitable conclusion to this sleigh ride of potholes and unread or unrecognized traffic signs. Combined with frenzied, obviously, acid tripping, drivers... (more)

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The Real Story of an Illegal Mexico/USA Border Crossing

A good friend of mine showed up today. The last time I saw her was about a year ago. It was last June, I believe. She took a leave of abstinence from the restaurant where she was an assistant manager and returned home to see her daughter and mother in Durango, Mexico. We will call her Maria. Maria planned to only stay for a month and then return to her $30,000 a year job. The problem was that, she was here in the United States illegally, but she felt it would be no big deal to get back across and was willing to spend the $3000 that was the coyote's normal price. Oh my, was this ever a big... (more)

Tags: mexican border, tijuana, tecate, nogales

The Global Insurrection

...similar across the board: oppression, corruption, economic decay, lack of opportunity for young and old alike. This is global phenomenon, leading to a worldwide popular uprising. 2012 appears as a hinge year, when much of the near future will be decided. Elections are due this year in Egypt, Mexico, France, Russia and the United States. A change of leadership is due in China. Nowhere can calm and stability be now taken for granted.

The world is coming to grips with the consequences of economic and financial globalization, into which governments and economic leaders rushed headlong, ... (more)

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Review of Covert Element by John L. Betcher

...untold number of lives and cost national treasure that could have been used in so many better ways. This story of a small town detective’s involvement in this war makes for compelling reading.

The seeds for this episode were laid in a U.S. Special Forces operation some years before in Mexico. The raid was successful in its initial goal, but it set the stage for the problems that would soon face James Becker and his wife in northern hamlet of Red Wing, Minnesota as evil will always fill in gaps and look for new paths of expansion.

This is the third book in a series featuring... (more)

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Starting to Forget, Remembering to Remember

...The show, I don't remember.

I haven't seen or heard the story since, except when I have told it, and again today when I looked for it on the web. I found it in the sermon notes of a Mr. Tad Pound, who told it in an Epiphany series at San Gabriel the Archangel Episcopal Church in New Mexico not long ago. It's from Chicken Soup for the Soul, turns out, told by Dan Millman, about a little girl named Sachi.

I love the web. It's kind of a miracle. Connects all the threads of our lives that would otherwise be loose at the ends, and frayed. Now back to my story.

So... (more)

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Kenneth Hoss is the Author of Storm Rising

... retired Drug Kingpin. Soon her life is threatened, her mother kidnapped and her partner and his wife are killed. Kelli finds herself forced off the case by the DEA. However, this does not deter her from pursuing the man responsible, a high powered Colombian Drug Lord. She follows the trail into Mexico and confronts the man on his own turf. As one reviewer put it, Storm Rising is a thrilling roller coaster ride.

Kenneth Hoss was born at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas in 1957 to Albert and Mary Hoss. He served a combined total of fourteen years on active duty from 1974 to... (more)

Tags: police, detective, mystery, suspense, thriller, ebook, homicide, nypd, murder investigation, kelli storm