Posted on 11/30/2001 7:47:46 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, support for the United States has poured in from around the world, but the response from Mexico has been decidedly lukewarm. A Gallup poll reported that 78 percent of Mexicans oppose contributing troops to a multinational coalition, and we have seen no indication that Mexico will modify its oil policy of acting like a member of OPEC.
While there is no evidence that the 9/11 terrorists entered over the Mexican border, the trial in El Paso of an Iraqi smuggler produced evidence that he alone brought more than 1,000 Middle East illegals into the United States via that route, charging his clients $10,000 to $15,000 each. Border Patrol agents have confirmed the increase in illegal aliens coming from the Middle East across our southern border and the fact that Arabs pay up to $50,000 each for a "coyote" to smuggle them into the United States.
The 9/11 events have temporarily shelved the foolish proposals to grant amnesty to three million Mexicans illegally living in our country. Unfortunately, there is no indication that Mexico has retreated from its longtime goal of opening the U.S. border.
In Chicago on July 27, 1997, then Mexican President Ernesto Zedilla told the National Council of LaRaza, "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders." He announced a Mexican constitutional amendment that purports to allow Mexicans to retain their Mexican nationality even though they become U.S. citizens (which is contrary to the U.S. naturalization oath).
When President Vicente Fox came to the United States this year, he reiterated this line, proclaiming that "the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders" and includes migrants living in the United States. He called for open borders and endorsed Mexico's new dual citizenship law.
Some Mexicans use the term "reconquista," which is Spanish for reconquest, to describe their desire to see California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas acquired by Mexico and named the new country of Aztlan. They are teaching their youth that the United States "stole" those areas from Mexico and that they should be "returned."
The United States acquired the Southwest a century and a half ago in three ways: part by the 1845 annexation agreement with Texas, which was then an independent republic, part ceded by Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican-American War, and part by the 1852 Gadsden Purchase.
Mexico's claim to the Southwest originated with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which drew an imaginary line on the map to divide the Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal. Because geography had so many unknowns at that time, Portugal got only Brazil (which is why Brazilians speak Portuguese).
Other countries never recognized this treaty, and Americans consider it ridiculous even to talk about giving the Southwest to Mexico. Most national borders all over the world have come about as the result of war.
Mexicans obviously have no thought of invading the Southwest with troops, so their hope is reconquista by migration, both legal and illegal. According to Mario Obledo, founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, "California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
An amnesty rally in the Los Angeles Sports Arena on June 10, 2000 attracted 25,000 people. In demanding amnesty for illegal Mexican aliens, the speakers proudly announced the names of at least a dozen unions in Los Angeles that are now headed by Mexicans.
Vicente Fox presented Mexico's Congress with a five-year development plan to eliminate the U.S.-Mexican border. He said he plans to serve "the 100 million Mexicans who now live in Mexico and the more than 18 million who live abroad," and to "strengthen our ability to protect and defend the rights of all Mexicans abroad."
Juan Hernandez, appointed by Fox as special liaison to Mexicans abroad, lobbies to get U.S. driver's licenses issued to illegal aliens and defends the Mexican government's issuance of desert survival kits to those sneaking across the border. On ABC's Nightline on June 7, he boasted: "We are betting that the Mexican-American population in the United States ... will think Mexico first."
Fox's five-year plan calls for building a larger consular presence in the United States, and this is already in operation. In U.S. areas with large Hispanic (including illegal) populations, the Mexican consul donates to the local public schools the same textbooks that are used in every elementary school in Mexico, grades 1 through 6.
The books, written in Spanish and including all academic subjects, teach that America "stole" the southwest from Mexico and that Mexico is entitled to take it back. The Mexican government considers these textbooks a symbol of Mexican national pride, guarantees a set to every Mexican child, and makes it a crime for anyone to sell them.
The only reason we learned about this Mexican plan is that one school in Santa Ana, California, decided to sell the books at a book fair and the local Hispanics kicked up a fuss about it. The school apologized to the Hispanics for selling the books, but should have apologized to the students for accepting the books in the first place.
The question we should ask our Mexican immigrant friends is, are you assimilating or invading?
You call your grandparents "wetbacks" and Americans "Anglos"? You are one confused individual.
Whoa, whoa -- catch any of mvscal's posts?? You're dead wrong...Don't so quick to assume what anybody's thinking.
I'm sorry, but I gotta disagree. If Pelham had told mvscal to "go pound sand" or "take a long walk off a short pier", that would have been one thing. But the graffiti reference was over the top -- it was like telling a black person to go eat some watermelons and fried chicken.
The first day I ever read his screen name, he was calling me a liar, a fake SEAL wannabee and said that I "masturbated to Richard Marchinko [sic] books". At the beginning of this thread he called a freeper "an ignorant and frightened racist" for daring to oppose open borders. At #33 on this thread he said "f*** off you slob" to another freeper.
What amazes me is that the Admin Moderators just clean up his turds, instead of banning him outright for the filth spewing little creep that he is.
I'll assume you haven't perused or been privey to all the hateful personal attacking that mvscal was so proudly authored, including posts with foul language that had to be deleted by a Moderator.
And BTW, telling a black person to "go eat some fried chicken or watermelon" is so "over the top" in your opinion enough to provoke what kind of relaliatory action?
As for what type of retaliatory action is warranted, I don't know what is being suggested here. My retaliatory action consisted of this -- I simply told Pelham what I thought of his comment. You are entitled to tell me that you disagree with my comment, as you have done.
Current trends... the rise in immigration (we've added over 100 million to our population is the last 50 years) will swamp us and multiculturism will lead to balkanization (if you teach an african, an arab, chinese, etc. that his culture is equal to or better than ours, why should he assimilate?).
Small number of rich elite running a totalitarian welfare state?... heck, thats what we've got now. You've got to be rich or politically connected to have much chance of winning all but the most local of political offices and the system is so rotten that the few honest people who get in are corrupted. Gov't growth is leaving the realm of geometric growth and is becoming exponential. History teaches that when you concentrate that much power in gov't hands, you pay the price.
On the bright side, a person interested in history (as I am) should be very entertained by observing how the first empire of the nuclear age falls into ruin. Rosy future or grim one, we're in for some interesting times.
It's not that its easy to enslave them, it's the fact that self-ownership (liberty) is an alien concept to them. In the socialist hell-holes they come from, life is a brutal existence in which you struggle every day to eat, provide shelter, and breed. When they come here, all those things are provided for at our expense.
I feel sorry for them, but we don't have the wide open spaces or the wealth to take in the 'huddled masses' anymore. It's time for those people to start reforming their native countries and stop destroying ours.
Californians will be able to blame mass immigration for a lot of your problems, but remember, red davis, rob reiner, boxer, feinstein, etc, etc ain't foreign names. As a smoker and a gunowner, I feel your pain!
Unfortunately, this question has already been answered by the US Government. Our elected ones may be fighting terrorism abroad, but they are welcoming an invasion of illegals here at home.
Our politicians are leaving us to clean up the mess and pay the bills for these invaders, and I for one am sick and tired of it, and write the President and my "elected officials" here in California about it all the time. Unfortunately, our President disagrees with us.
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