Why Not, It’s Just The Taxpayers Who Are Paying: USDA Partnering With Mexico To Boost US Food Stamp Roles

More Obama re-elect stuff, use food stamps to lure them in. I didn’t know food stamps were for illegals, did you? I thought you had to be an American citizen, didn’t you?

The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.

USDA has an agreement with Mexico to promote American food assistance programs, including food stamps, among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.

“USDA and the government of Mexico have entered into a partnership to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance,” the USDA explains in a brief paragraph on their “Reaching Low-Income Hispanics With Nutrition Assistance” web page. “Mexico will help disseminate this information through its embassy and network of approximately 50 consular offices.”

The partnership — which was signed by former USDA Secretary Ann M. Veneman and Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista in 2004 — sees to it that the Mexican Embassy and Mexican consulates in America provide USDA nutrition assistance program information to Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals working in America and migrant communities in America. The information is specifically focused on eligibility criteria and access.

The goal, for USDA, is to get rid of what they see as enrollment obstacles and increase access among potentially eligible populations by working with arms of the Mexican government in America. Benefits are not guaranteed or provided under the program — the purpose is outreach and education.

Hey Bush made us do it, just like Fast and Furious.

47,515 Drug-War Murders in Mexico in Just 5 Years

And they don’t know how many deaths were caused by Fast and Furioua.

(CNSNews.com) — The Mexican government reported that there were 12,903 drug-related homicides in the country during the first nine months of 2011, bringing Mexico’s drug-war death toll to 47,515 since Mexican President Felipe Calderón began cracking down on organized crime in December 2006.

That means that between January and September 2011 (273 days), there was an average of 47 drug-related homicides per day in Mexico.

According to a Jan. 11 report (in Spanish) on drug-related homicides from Mexico’s Attorney General (Procuraduría General de la República, PGR), most of the deaths between January and September 2011 were executions.

The 12,903 cartel-related homicides in 2011 (officially called homicides due to rivalry between delinquent organizations) included 10,200 executions; 1,652 deaths from encounters with law enforcement; 740 from direct aggression attacks; and 311 from violence between organized trafficking groups.

April was the bloodiest month in 2011 with 1,630 total drug-related deaths, followed by May (1,539) and July (1,519).