Tournament: Westside | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lincoln Prep | Judge: Ian Lee
To begin this round, we present the story of Maria, an anonymous Mexican Woman who lived in Ciudad Juarez. She shared her experiences of the drug cartels and Human trafficking.
CNN 10 January 13 2010 ( http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/mexico.human.traffic.drug/)
Contention 1: The US and Mexico in the Status Quo
Due to overall higher revenue and incentives, many Mexican Farmers are migrating to working for the drug cartels
Rios 8 Viridiana Rios is a graduate student from Harvard University in government. Spring, 08. (http://www.gov.harvard.edu/files/Rios2008_MexicanDrugMarket.pdf)
The United States has gutted development aid to Mexico and instead sends billions to Mexico’s military to expand the violent war on drugs
Wainer, immigration policy analyst for Bread for the World Institute, 2011
(Andrew, Development and Migration In Rural Mexico, Bread For The World Institute, Briefing Paper, Number 11, http://www.bread.org/institute/papers/briefing-paper-11.pdf)
Thus the plan:
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase economic engagement towards Mexico by creating and implementing alternative development programs for small agricultural communities through the Millenium Challenge Corporation with a gender mainstreaming perspective. This is enacted through normal means and we will clarify in Cross-examination if asked.
Advantage 1 is Human Security
The drug trade is exponentially increasing in Mexico
Villagran 2013 (Laura, Jan 25, 2013, “As Mexico's traffickers ship drugs north, they leave addicts in their wake” http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0125/As-Mexico-s-traffickers-ship-drugs-north-they-leave-addicts-in-their-wake)
The heightened presence of the drug cartels has resulted in increased violence across the region
Shirk 2011, Prof of Political Science at the University of San Diego and Director of the Trans?Border Institute, (David A., The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Shared Threat, Council Special Report No. 60, March 2011)
Increased Drug violence destroys human security
Brown 12 Vanda Felbab-Brown is a senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She is an expert on international and internal conflicts and nontraditional security threats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence, and illicit economies.2012, (http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2011/03/31-counternarcotics-felbabbrown)
Failure to address human security threats results in an endless cycle of violence-both direct and structural
Schnabel 03 (Albrecht, Senior Research Fellow at Swiss peace and a Lecturer in International Organizations and Conflict Management at the University of Bern Institute of Political Science, “The human security approach to direct and structural violence” http://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2008/files/SIPRIYB0802C.pdf) CH
Advantage 2 is Undocumented Immigration
Due to lack of resources, over 15 million live in poverty in rural areas in Mexico
IFAD 12 International Fund for Agricultural Development, April 2012 (http://www.ifad.org/operations/projects/regions/pl/factsheet/mexico_e.pdf)
Poverty causes undocumented migration
Laws 13 Laws.com is a website ran by lawyers across the US on immigration, 2013, http://immigration.laws.com/illegal-immigration/illegal-immigration-causes/poverty
This undocumented migration to the US has lead to human and sex trafficking
Cota 13 Isabella Cota is a journalist for The Guardian, July 4 2013(http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jul/04/central-america-drug-cartels-trafficking-people)
Those caught up in human trafficking live in subhuman conditions-recent rescue proves
Shoichet 13 Catherine Shoichet is a journalist on Mexico for CNN, July 24, 2013 (http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/23/world/americas/mexico-migrants-rescued/)
With these two scenarios, the trafficking violates the UN Charter on Human Rights which says:
Article 4: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms” This is violated because persons caught up in the trafficking are forced into labor without compensation.
And Article 5: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” This is violated because of the living conditions they are forced to endure.
Human rights violations lead to dehumanization
Maiese 03 Michelle Maiese is a graduate student of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is a part of the research staff at the Conflict Research Consortium, July 2003 (http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/dehumanization)
Contention 3: Solvency
Alternative development programs empirically dramatically reduce drug production
UNODC 5 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT:
A GLOBAL THEMATIC EVALUATION, 2005, http://www.unodc.org/documents/alternative-development/05-82516_Ebook.pdf
Plan solves for migration
Wainer 11 Andrew Wainer is a Senior Immigration Policy Analyst for Bread for the World Institute, January 2011 (http://www.bread.org/institute/papers/briefing-paper-11.pdf)
Increased Mexican agriculture will create jobs and reduce poverty
UNCTAD 13 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2013 (http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/ditctncd2012d2_en.pdf)
Agriculture investment solves for poverty.
Burstein 07 (John, President of Foro para el Desarrollo Sustentable conducted research sustainable development and served as facilitator for the Task Force on U.S.-Mexico Agricultural Cooperation, U.S.–MEXICO AGRICULTURAL TRADE AND RURAL POVERTY IN MEXICO, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Mexico_Agriculture_rpt_English1.pdf, ME)