Trump Presidency Forcing Congressional Integrity

John McCain might be sounding the alarm to return to the regular order of business in Congress, but the truth is that he is asking a bunch of political combatants to do something they've done very little of lately.


I say very little because of that landmark sanctions bill that smacked Putin for playing with our election while blocking Trump's potential subversion of the sanctions and/or Robert Meuller from achieving the purpose both were employed for.

The near unanimity on the vote against Putin and Trump required the kind of irregular order of business that McCain actually is suggesting because the GOP hasn't taken full advantage of the power levers they control in Washington DC.

Can Congress figure out another trick beyond obstruction?

What McCain isn't directly saying is that the GOP needs to work across the isle not only to work against the agenda of a president gone rogue but to subvert the division emanating from the oval office to try and unite America via the power of a determined, veto-proof Congress.


Establishing such bipartisan control over America is also the most reasonable way for Republicans and Democrats to salvage their political reputations being crushed by the lack of utilizing their control of Congress and the White House, and by a lack of cogent messaging respectively.


At this point, in a somewhat youthful presidency, neither party can recognize what party Trump is flying the flag for, nor are they interested in claiming his accomplishments as theirs in fear of guilt by Alt-Right association. While Trump's lies have served no political benefit, his occasional truths are mostly toxic and less useful even if entertaining on a Twitter level.


Trump's current stand against the DACA program is masquerading as an effort to force Congress to fix it- or else- something Democrats could applaud if they thought Republicans were willing to fix it, not hide behind Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals of immigrants as the easiest way to deal with Dreamers but not put their name on a permanent solution. Ending their access to legal documents that create a pathway to school and eventually, a good job (every DACA recipient is required to complete their schooling just to qualify), does not determine what happens if they are returned to the shadows of an undocumented status. Is Trump actually posturing to deport people back to a place most never really knew? Will Congress ignore their duty in all of this?


Trump is just the kind of president that the balance of powers was intended to temper, and he is now waking up the Congress to their uniquely crafted strength and ability to neuter the worst of electoral college winners. And not a moment too soon as N. Korea, DACA, Houston, our debt limit and a few other matters could use a little congressional unity and integrity.

Afta NAFTA. The Real Impact Of The North American Free Trade Agreement

Comprehensive recovery of Mexico should spear head economic war with China

Our only future plan for Mexican immigration is to reverse the magnet a bit.  Companies in America that willfully hire illegals may need to reconsider their means and mode of production.  Through a better North American trade agreement, we can look at turning Mexico into the worlds new China.  To go into a store and find anything that does not "Made In China" is hard anymore.  China is rapidly on its way to becoming the worlds largest economy because we have made it that way.

Can't we make it in Mexico and label it Made In North America?

But did we have any other alternative?

When laws made it so appealing to find cheap labor, corporations did just that.  Made In America was always teetering on the precipice of trade agreements.  Third world countries saw America's need of third world labor and responded.

As I grew up, those tags that once said Made In America slowly became, Made In Vietnam, Made In Taiwan, Made In Thailand and made anywhere in the world except America.  Only recently has China (still a communist nation) taken over the allegiance of America's thirst for a robust economy.

If Mexico does not teach us something about the impact of third world labor sources and what companies will do to gain it, Mexico should teach us something about income redistribution.  In essence, the income that was transferred from the Mexican soil is now being earned on America's soil and sent back to Mexico.  Socialism, once again, has reared its head in response to those moments that capitalism hurts.

Aside from the danger of Mexican drug cartels, redeveloping Mexico will expand the capacity for American imperialism.  To hurt China, we must disconnect our dependency upon them.  Mexico offers a fertile land for relocating corporations that consume products currently being purchased from China.  For every corporation who makes this investment we can treat their products as domestic production in regards to both labeling and taxation. Mexico gains new industry and retains its most vital resource, its people, and America stops bending over to be raped by China. After all, Made In North America sounds a lot better than Made In China anyway.

Of course we could ignore Mexico and pretend that immigration and dangerous drug cartels will fix themselves.  We could do like Eric Cantor says and tell ourselves that we must secure the border before we address the problem. We can continue to allow criminal corporations to be less accountable than the immigrants they hire.....

.....Or we could get real about immigration and embrace all of North America as more than just next door neighbors, but countries who's futures are intimately connected with our own.


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Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.

NAFTA force the Mexican farmer to chase the work.

In the future, after current immigrants are given a pathway towards citizenship, the demand of securing our borders will remain.  House Majority leader,Eric Cantor was right in saying that we need to address this problem, he was only wrong in declaring it to be a precursor to an immigration bill.  Pass the bill and address the problem.

If I were Cantor, I would force demands upon this bill that set timelines around what we do next.  A holistic approach to immigration demands a realistic approach to the cause and effect model. 

Before NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) the Mexican farmer could make a reasonable living in Mexico.  After NAFTA, he was swallowed up by the strength of the American farm corporations.  When the supply and demand model shifted the supply source to America's soil, it shifted the job as well.  Immigration exploded after NAFTA as did crime in Mexico.  A weakened Mexico has provided few real alternatives for industry, and thus, weak resistance to the emerging drug lord economy.

Immigration grew because Mexicans had to choose to either live really poorly in Mexico on what you can make, or you chase the jobs in America and send a little cash back if you can.  Economist say that this lost money that is generated in America but sent back to Mexico is an issue worth addressing as well.  Truly desperate youth in Mexico shorten their life expectancy by making money within the drug trade which is another significant American trade arrangement with a one sided benefit (save for the guns that Texas sells to drug lords).   Some of the drug money makes its way back into the Mexican economy, but at the cost of fear and terror on the Mexican streets.

In the absence of a stronger industry, the drug cartels grow stronger.  In time, our main concern from the southern regions of our continent will not be the immigrants but the industry of evil that will increase its ability to control Mexico on America's dime.  They may already be expanding tunnel systems to insure future immigration and drug  routes.  America owes it to America to address the decline of Mexico with legislation and strategy before it requires soldiers and guns.....and bombs.

Next Post:  Comprehensive recovery of Mexico should also be the spear head of our economic war with China 
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Immigration is about the migration of human beings towards hope and prosperity

Immigration is much much more than a big word to describe people who travel from their home country into another. In the scope of what it means to the future of the American electorate, it is much more important than healthcare. Immigration could become the conversation that quiets the ObamaCare scare.

For several months now it has been confirmed that if given a chance, the current immigration bill that has passed the Senate would also pass in the House of Representatives.  Majority leaders have the power to filibuster a bill and deny it a day in the sun.  For weeks now, president Obama has talked about moving legislation through executive order if congress refuses to act. When the president threatens to pull out his pen and phone, he is talking about immigration for sure.

 On CBS's Face the Nation, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said,

"There's not been a determined sense that we are going to secure the borders and make sure that the laws on the books are being implemented now. I would say that is a precursor and has to happen first."


Why are republicans drawing new red lines on immigration when there is already immigration legislation with headcount to pass?   This is not about immigration at all anymore, (another post for another day) but republicans are forcing the immigration debate once again.

Can we ever stop humans from migrating across the earth?

Republicans and democrats who are ready to pass an immigration bill understand the utter hypocrisy of this debate.  The cost of deportation (which is a federal responsibility) might be twice the cost of stopping human beings from moving across land and sea and settling in fertile soil.  Why?  Because it will never end.  Where there is a will.....and a job......there will always be a way. The search for hope and prosperity is irrepressible.

Remove the magnet, remove the problem.

The only criminal is the corporations that happily create the low wage worker magnets that ultimately draw the immigrant; especially the post NAFTA immigrant.  Companies find ways to look the other way because America government looks the other way. As is the case with marijuana, the cost of enforcement is no longer worth the fight.

Yet, this problem is much more complex because the impact and the ramifications of the Mexican immigrant, to Mexico and to America, demands a holistic perspective.

Consider these things.

• Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.
• Comprehensive recovery of Mexico should also be the spear head of our economic war with China 

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