Hello Fellow Volunteers:
Here it is December already! I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
The Oregon chapter of the MCDC had a table at the Portland Gun Show in November. We had several Volunteers help get the information out and I want to thank them. We passed out over 600 information packets and about 100 applications for volunteers. I know money is tight but I hope most of them decide to join.
This last month South of the border there has been a lot going on.
Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography reported that the rate of emigration reported that the rate of emigration of Mexicans shows a decline in the period 2006 and 2008. Since last year only 814,000 Mexicans went to live in another country.
US Border Patrol Agents have detected several tunnels in Sonora, AZ area.
It has been reported that Organized crime want to silence the press.
The head office of Interpol in Lyon, France advised that it would send a special team to Mexico to investigate a possible misuse of its information system and data base after the arrest of the chief of the Mexican Interpol office.
The Senate of the (Mexican) Republic asked the American congress to report a law about the purchase and sale of firearms and thus prevent organized crime from trafficking arms to Mexico. Fernando Castro who introduced the proposal, said "the American Government does not have a national register of firearms in the hands of private citizens, which facilitates illegal traffic toward our country, a situation which has become critical for Mexicans' security. And I say that is just BS they want to know who has the weapons so they can get to them.
They announced that homicides are the leading cause of deaths in Ciudad Juarez, surpassing suicides, accidental and all illnesses. Diabetes has been the primary cause of death there until this year.
On the 18th of November TJ celebrated that they had gone 36 hours without deaths.
Tony Garza, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico acknowledged that Mexico would not be experiencing the current levels of violence if it weren't for the U.S., the world's largest consumer of drugs and the main supplier of firearms to the criminal organizations dealing in drugs. I feel if they enforced the law and got rid of the corrupt law enforcement officers it would cut down on their problems.
According to the Mexican National Institute of Migration from 2006 to Aug 2008 some 1.5 million were deported from the US. Those still in the US are sending less money back to Mexico.
Bolivia's President has ordered the indefinite suspension of D.E.A. activities in Bolivia and has accused it of supporting his political enemies.
On November 4th it was reported that the previous 24 hours were the most violent for the year in Mexico. That day they had 58 murders linked to organized crime.
The state of Michoacan imports 88% of their work force from other states and from Central America according to a national institute of statistical information. The same institute also recorded that 40% of the state's own workers have departed to the US.
Mexican Secretary of Exterior Relations, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, said that when Barak Obama becomes president, Mexico will reassert it contention that his agenda include an immigration agreement as a priority.
Mexican Secretary of Exterior Affairs reported that for the first time "in migratory history" the flow of her countrymen into the US has declined 40% in the past three months.
Jorge Bustamante, a UN immigrants' Human Rights official, compared the detention of undocumented aliens in the United States with the ones that the Nazi secret police carried out against the Jews.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies is contemplating plans to raise salaries of municipal police as a measure to stop corruption. Municipal police are paid an average of 1,500 pesos ($115) per month.
If the numbers reported by the Immigration authorities are correct, it means that the illegal traffic of Chinese citizens who pass through Ecuador with the United States as their destination will reach 750 million dollars this year thanks to the government (of Ecuador) decision not to require visas for them to enter the country.
The number of poppy fields in Peru is growing because the kilo of heroin is valued at ten times that of cocaine.
The bank of Mexico reported that individual monetary remittance sent back into Mexico from abroad reached 2 billion ($444.83 dollars) in October and thus reached 19 billion ($970.50 million dollars) for the year to date. The bank of Guatemala shows monetary remittances from the US reached 3 billion ($663.33 million dollars) during the first ten months of this year.
First time applicants for a driver's license in San Luis Potosi must present a birth certificate and official identification (either a passport, a military registration card or a voter's registration proof of domicile, a clean criminal record reports, plus medical and eye exams. There is no indication that the written test is administered in any language other than Spanish.
That is from South of the Border but if you read the Local News Papers or listen to the news you will see that the crime wave has made it to Oregon. Only you can stop it. The new legislation will start up soon, get to them now and start getting their attention. Visit their offices in your area. Get out and recruit - we need new volunteers. The more volunteers we have the more they will listen- talk to your friends and get them to join.
We are NOT having a December meeting because of Christmas but we will be having one in January. A volunteer is setting up a meeting place in Oregon City. We will let you know soon where it will be.
I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To make it a truly Happy New Year lets get as many new volunteers as we can so the politicians will have to listen to us.
As I always tell you GET INVOLVED BECAUSE THOSE THAT SHOW UP RUN THE COUNTRY..
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