U.S. Troops Heading to Southern Border Not About Immigration

The Republican Party continues to fill the political debate with smoke and mirrors rhetoric when discussing the need to secure our southern borders. The argument that terrorists will one day use the routes that undocumented immigrants use as a means to conduct an attack against the United States rings with logic in the minds of many Americans. In truth, this is nothing but a diversionary tactic aimed at detracting Americans from focusing on the real concerns of the United States government; Communist China’s influence in Latin America and the Caribbean is the greater issue here, not immigration. Immigrants are nothing more than political pawns of the United States.

While Americans focus on the issue of illegal immigration, many fail to realize that the need to militarize the southern border with Mexico is a forethought of the neo-cons and hard-line Republicans concerned with Latin American nations becoming more hostile to the United States in the coming years — backed by an ever increasing economically and militarily powerful Communist China.

The rise of leftist Latin American governments is causing American leaders in Washington to take note. These newly elected leftist heads of state have become closely aligned with China politically and economically. No longer is the Monroe Doctrine in effect. And this growing concern is making neo-con strategists use the immigration issue as a means to justify militarizing our southern borders.

In reality, the neo-cons are using the immigration issue to stem political backlash coming from Latin America and China. We are militarizing our borders due to growing political differences in Latin America — not to protect us from the undocumented.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger F. Noriega, during an April 6, 2005 testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, warned of growing economic and political influence in Latin America being pursued by China as part of its plan to continue to fuel its economic development.

China is seeking raw materials to boost its economic growth, while at the same time securing political allies in its efforts to isolate Taiwan, Noriega noted. Dominica and Grenada broke ties with Taiwan in favor of China, and Jamaica has opened an embassy in Beijing. These small economies see China as an economic powerhouse as well as a potential future political partner against U.S. political and economic interest in the region.

China holds observer status in the Organization of American States and has engaged in military-to-military initiatives with several Latin American countries. “In previous testimony before Congress, General Bantz Craddock of the United States Southern Command noted that national-level defense officials from China made 20 visits to Latin America and the Caribbean, while defense ministers and chiefs of defense from nine regional countries have visited China,” said Noriega.

Today, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina have moved increasingly towards the Chinese, and this may be a threat to U.S. commercial interests in South America.

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