As I wrote in “They Kill Horses, Don’t They? (Mexicans, That Is.)”, 10 percent of Mexico’s stock of horses are slaughtered for food. In America, all horse slaughterhouses have been closed, but business is booming in Mexico.

The photo shows how horses being slaughtered in Juarez are stabbed in the back until the spinal cord is severed, after which they are hoisted up and their throats are slit.

Animal rights activists launched a major campaign Thursday to pressure Congress for legislation that would prohibit the export of horses to Mexico and other countries for slaughter.

The campaign, months in the making, includes grisly video of horses crammed into cattle trailers and hauled to a Mexican plant where they are slaughtered with knives.

“This is not how Americans want their horses treated,” said Nancy Perry, a vice president with the Humane Society of the United States.
[Activists urge Congress to ban horse exports for slaughter, Houston Chronicle 10/5/07]

See the Humane Society’s coverage about the cruelty of Mexican stockyards: Investigation Reveals Inhumane Treatment of Horses Shipped to Mexico for Human Consumption. The organization supports the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S.311/H.R. 503), which would prevent the export of US horses for slaughter.

Michael Chertoff has developed a sudden attack of environmentalism, to go with his sudden attack of willingness to enforce the law:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday defended the construction of a fence along the southwest border, saying it’s actually better for the environment than what happens when people illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico line.

“Illegal migrants really degrade the environment. I’ve seen pictures of human waste, garbage, discarded bottles and other human artifact in pristine areas,” Chertoff said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “And believe me, that is the worst thing you can do to the environment.”[Chertoff: Illegals 'Degrade' Environment]

It’s too bad that Secretary Chertoff isn’t a regular reader of VDARE.COM, we’ve been writing about this for years.

George Borjas linked to the Chertoff story with this comment:

This would be funny were it not for the indication that these people don’t have a clue about what the real issue is. Next time I pick up the paper I expect to read that George Bush himself is arguing that we need to build a fence “for the children.”The Borjas Blog: We Need A Fence Because…

This report was is from San Antonio, Texas.

The Identity Theft Resource Center ranks San Antonio 10th on the list. Phoenix is #1, followed by Riverside, California, Las Vegas, Miami and Dallas. The list is based on the number of ID theft complaints per population.San Antonio One of the Worst Cities for ID Theft | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News

What do all these cities have in common? Large illegal populations, that’s what!

From one Virginian to another (in The Atlantic):

Fortunately for America, as Jefferson saw it, British aristocracy had never taken root here in the colonies. Most British toffs didn’t have the faintest urge to depart their country estates and London clubs, their coaches-and-four, their tailors, valets, butlers, ballrooms, peruke-makers, and neck-cloth launderers for a wilderness full of painted bow-and-arrow-bearing aborigines … and no desirable women, unless one were a rather twisted toff who had a thing for granola girls with honest calves and forearms and hands thick as a blacksmith’s from hoeing the corn and black-eyed peas. From the very beginning of his political career, Jefferson was determined to make sure no aristocracy, European- or American-born, would ever be established here. Aristocracy literally means rule by the best, but he knew the proper word was plutocracy, rule by the rich, in this case big landowners who maintained their lordly, demigodly, hereditary rank only by passing their estates down generation after generation—intact—courtesy of the law of entail and the right of primogeniture.

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This is from the Dallas Morning News article that Allan Wall discussed below:

Primitivo Rodríguez, a Mexico City resident who attended the meeting, said he worries that it’s too late for the Mexican government to try a new strategy, and many Mexicans may soon be returning to a country unable to provide good-paying jobs.

“There is a tsunami, not a thunderstorm, coming toward us, and I don’t think the government has a plan,” said Mr. Rodríguez, coordinator of the Coalition for the Political Rights of Mexicans Abroad, which has members in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston. “What will Mexico do with so many unhappy, desperate people? Mexico is simply not prepared for what’s coming next.”[ Mexico To Bolster Immigrant Defense by Alfredo Corchado and Dianne Solis, October 4th, 2007]

If you are an American, you aren’t allowed to say that you’re being flooded with immigrants. It’s considered racist, by the people who make a living considering things racist. Apparently if you’re a Mexican, it’s different.