Arizona is Obama’s Burgenland, and he’s sending troops to the border.* But he has an even worse problem: the Tex-Mex drug Mafia.
Who remembers the TV crime series “Miami Vice?” Sonny Burnett and Ricardo Cooper tracked down drug couriers and money launderers in Miami. The downtown area was a dangerous hotspot and the warehouses that serve today as galleries and chic nightclubs were then centers for the drug cartels and the Narco-Mafia.
The real-life Miami Vice characters were successful: They put enough pressure on the cocaine smuggling route that ran via the Caribbean that it eventually shifted to run across Mexico. Whoever is looking for a suitable current TV series based on the new route should take a look at “Breaking Bad,” available here only on DVD. The series is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Fear reigns north of the Rio Grande. Fear of narcotics gangs mixes in the United States of America with the fear of illegal immigrants. And now President Obama is sending in National Guard troops. But, as it was with Burgenland, the gesture is only a placebo.
Meanwhile, Americans completely forget that both problems — the drug wars and illegal immigration — are of the homegrown variety. Who’s snorting all that coke and crystal meth, anyway? And who’s letting all the illegal immigrants work in the orange groves and strawberry fields for starvation wages? Finding the answers to those questions would be a lot more helpful than sending in the National Guard.
*Translator’s Note: Burgenland is a border province of Austria with Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia as neighbors. It is traditionally considered a bridge between the eastern and western parts of Central Europe.
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