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?
I was correct, you're just a racist trying to frighten the children with boogie man stories. You forgot to use the part about them dragging naughty children into the woods at night.
Your screen name is very misleading, there is nothing American about your spirit, just fear of those different than you and hate to try to disguise your own fears. You should change your screen name, your disguise as an American didn't work.
You and I are in agreement with a clear majority of the citizens of our nation concerning the immigration issue. Our rulers don't do a thing about it because, as I said in a previous post, the wealthy benefit from mass immigration and that's who our 'leaders' answer to.
Bingo. Short and sweet. ;-)
You really hit the nail on the head with that statement and your eloquent post
My grandparents immigrated legally from Italy 80+ years ago. My husband's grandparents immigrated nearly 100 years ago from Germany. There was no public assistance, no one to insist that Americans become bi-lingual so they could communicate with my and his grandparents and their ilk. It was sink or swim, or go back home.
My grandparents were proud to be Americans. They learned to read, write and speak English. They became citizens, pledging to uphold American values and traditions. My grandfather built up his own business and passed on his good work ethic to his children and grandchildren.
The situation we face today with alot of immigrants and "illegals" is quite different. They come here to get what they can and nothing else. They care not for becoming Americans and insist that we either learn to speak their language or endure being talked about in a language we don't comprehend. Due to the PC police we allow it to continue to happen or else we are branded as bigots.
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.....
You are nothing but another America hater. I am sick of you freaks and criminal supporters that continue to support and minimize this invasion of millions and millions of criminals. You must be a GD criminal yourself.
Be advised, there are many here that no longer are afraid to speak the truth, no matter how GD nasty the truth is. Spit* ..-. ..- .- -. -.. -.. . .. I've f-ing hadenuf
We need more Americans like you and others on this forum to speak out everywhere.
I declare that all criminal illegal aliens are racist and America haters, as they break our laws and piss on our sovereignty while reaping the benefits of this honorable, free country. The illegal aliens are the GD criminals, not those that speak out against these criminals.
These socialist, communist are attempting to turn the tables on this entire invasion and attempt to make the innocent appear guilty. BS. I will not remain quite. No way, never.
And it has nothing to do with our immigration "free for all" and the millions of criminals that are invading our nation and defecating on our national sovereignty.
There's an area nearby in Fullerton (was ultra-conservative, former congressman Bob Dornan's district till Loretta Sanchez beat him), Sunny Hills, that suddenly filled up with Korean immigrants before the election.
And my friends and I are wondering, where do they get the money to buy these high-priced homes? Uncle Sam?
You seek to justify your fear & hatred of all illegal aliens by blaming the actions of a few on the group as a whole. If you got your idiotic wish, which you won't, and deported the whole group, people would still be raped and killed. I just called un-american spirit what he is.
You are nothing but another America hater. I am sick of you freaks and criminal supporters that continue to support and minimize this invasion of millions and millions of criminals. You must be a GD criminal yourself.
It is you who is an America hater. You proof it with your hatred of the very diversity of immigration that has created this great country. In every generation there are a always a few mentally deficient individuals who think that just because their ancestors were brave and intelligent enough to immigrate and they were lucky enough to be born here that they have the god given right to keep out all of the new immigrants. You certainly are one of those idiots.
Be advised, there are many here that no longer are afraid to speak the truth, no matter how GD nasty the truth is. Spit* ..-. ..- .- -. -.. -.. . .. I've f-ing hadenuf
You probably never will understand the truth no matter how hard you may try. But please keep expressing yourself frequently, as the village idiot you will always be good for a laugh. That’s the nasty truth.
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