Estados Unidos y México: colaborar en Grandes Proyectos Hidráulicos

December 3, 2007 (LPAC)--What follows is the introduction to an in-depth report, by Dennis Small, entitled, "'Make That Which is Reasonable, Possible' U.S. and Mexico: Cooperate on Great Water Projects". The article will be published in the December 7, issue of Executive Intelligence Review, and is available [here], in its entirety, complete with comprehensive maps and charts, in pdf format.

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The mass “removal” of Mexicans from the United States went into high gear in 2007. The total number deported and otherwise expelled will probably total over a half million for the calendar year, with some Mexican government advisors reporting that as many as 1 million adults will be shipped back across the border in 2007, leaving 100,000 abandoned children behind—-many of whom are U.S. citizens who were born in this country. There are currently some 13 million Mexicans residing in the United States, about half of them illegally.

The mass expulsions and attendant round-ups, raids, and media-induced xenophobia, are a massive human, economic, and social catastrophe in the making—-courtesy of the “pro-family” Bush Administration, and the predatory financial interests behind it.

These hundreds of thousands of Mexicans are being deported back to a country they fled as economic refugees, because they were unable to scratch out a living for themselves and their families under the policies of globalization and free trade which were imposed on Mexico and which shattered that economy. They are being hunted, herded, and shipped back, like so much human cattle, to a country devastated by the lack of water projects and other basic infrastructure—as seen in the recent massive floods in the southern state of Tabasco—a country where the free-trade policies of the last 25 years have created a 50% real unemployment rate, a 30% plunge in real per-capita consumption, and plummeting food production, which threatens the very survival and sovereignty of the nation.

As Lyndon LaRouche put it in a recent discussion with members of his youth movement in California: “The population [of Mexico] has grown somewhat, but it’s extremely poor. They’re pushed across the border, to come up here and work at virtually slave labor! As expendable human beings! And the minute they don’t need their labor, you find out what expendable is. . . . Now, you have this great problem, here in the United States. The racists are starting to move on this thing—big. And it will tend to get bigger. . . . Why do these people come here? They had no other place to go! They were driven here—like cattle! To work as virtual slave labor in the United States. Sixteen people sleeping in a room, or something, that kind of stuff; or working on a slave job to try to squeeze some pennies to send back across the border.”

This is hardly LaRouche’s first warning about the looming catastrophe.

In September 2007, this magazine reported that the exploding U.S. mortgage crisis was leading to a sharp drop in remittances sent home by Mexican workers in the United States—about 20% of whom are employed in construction. EIR documented the wave of layoffs already hitting this layer, and warned that “the worst is yet to come.”

Seven years earlier, in December 2000, LaRouche had written that the coming “demise of the importer of last resort,” the speculatively inflated U.S. economy, would lead to a dramatic reversal of the export of goods and labor force to the United States, by desperate Third World nations.

Three decades ago, LaRouche had already exposed these fascist policies, in a 1976 half-hour national television address, in which he warned of the existence of the genocidal “Paddock Plan,” in which the Kissinger-allied agronomist and government advisor William Paddock was calling for Mexico’s population to be cut in half by the end of the century, and to “close the borders and let them scream.”

That is exactly what is now happening: The Paddock Plan has become reality. The United States is implementing a policy of genocide toward the nation of Mexico, and against Mexicans residing in the United States.

But worse than what we are doing to millions of Mexicans, is what we Americans are doing to ourselves: We are allowing ourselves to become as beasts, in our treatment of others in this fashion. This is not the “beacon of hope and temple of liberty for all mankind” of which the Marquis de Lafayette so eloquently spoke.