Author’s note: This is part 2 of 3 The North American Common Market, outlined by the report, envisioned a marketplace with the “free movement across of the borders of all commodities, particularly oil and gas, but people as well.” The effort would strengthen the United States against oil manipulation by the Arab nations and protect […]
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Good Neighbor Policy
Author’s note: This is part 1 of 3 The United States will go to war for oil rang the headlines across México and much of the world throughout the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. On February 14, 1979, then-president Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was set to meet with Mexican president José López Portillo. Both heads […]
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Ronald Reagan and Open Borders
Many conservatives in the United States like to channel Ronald Reagan as the image of the “America First” doctrine and true U.S.-centric conservatism. This narrative is part of the fiction that is driving today’s far right-wing conservatism that put Donald Trump into office. The problem, though, is that it is all based on a lie. […]
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The Assimilated Immigrant Lie
A reader recently sent me a link to a YouTube video expressing the difference between an assimilated immigrant and one that is not. It does not matter who the reader is because the video expresses what many believe is the problem with Mexican immigrants to the United States. As most of you know, I do […]
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We Are Complicit in the United Airlines Fiasco
Like most of you, I am outraged at the video that surfaced last week of a passenger being forcefully removed from a United Airlines flight. He was removed because the airline oversold its flight and they needed to make room to transport four airline employees to a new location so that they could work the […]
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The Tax Pain of 2017
Like most of you, this week I am dealing with filing my taxes for 2016. I am not a U.S. citizen, but like most of you reading this today, I also file and pay income taxes each year. As a self-employed individual, in addition to the income tax, I pay an additional tax, the self-employed […]
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Donald Trump Did the Right Thing About Syria
Yes, imagine that, I’m agreeing that Donald Trump did the right thing with bombing the Syrian airbase. It is important to separate the things Donald Trump does that need to be challenged from the things that Donald Trump does that is right for the country. It is also important that all of those that oppose […]
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Is NAFTA Good for El Paso?
Over the last two days we took a close look at NAFTA and the global trade between México and the United States. Many decry that NAFTA has destroyed jobs on both sides of the border. Donald Trump has singled out NAFTA as the worst trade agreement that the United States ever signed. Is the dislike […]