Posted on 07/30/2009 8:44:17 AM PDT by AuntB
U.S. fan: “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”
El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 7/28/09
[Full transl. of op/column by Sergio Sarmiento titled “Mexican stadium.” The writer is nationally syndicated in Mexico]
The Giants’ Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with capacity for 75 thousand spectators, was full this last Sunday during the finals of the Gold Cup soccer match between the teams from Mexico and the United States. The Mexican team beat its rival “in its own territory” for the first time in ten years. Nevertheless, as is already usual in the soccer matches between Mexico and the United States, the stadium looked like anything except American.
More than 80 or 90% of the spectators were Mexican or Mexican-American, and their sympathy for the Mexican team could not be hidden. From the start, the spectators behaved as a ferociously local and discourteous Mexican public. Many whistled loudly when the National Anthem of the United States, “The flag of the stars and stripes” was played, and during the entire match they isolated the 10 thousand fans of the U.S. team, who for all intents and purposes, were in hostile territory.
It’s not the first time that this happens. In the book “Who Are We: The Challenges to American National Identity,” Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington, also the author of Clash of Civilizations, described what happened in another Gold Cup: In a sea of Mexican flags, many of the spectators booed the playing of the U.S. national anthem; they tossed waste and “cups of what may have been water, beer or worse” at the U.S. players; they attacked with fruits and beer those few spectators who dared to raise a U.S. flag. Huntington points out that these events did not take place in Mexico City but in Los Angeles in 1998. Huntington quoted a fan of the U.S. team “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”
Certainly, something is wrong. If something similar had taken place in our country, if a community of foreign origin had made a mockery of our National Anthem and our flag, (then) the mass media and Mexican politicians would have already started a campaign to lynch those anti-patriots and traitors. But since this took place in the United States, many Mexicans have thought of it as something to be proud of.
In his book, Professor Huntington, who died on December 24, 2008, called upon Americans to defend their country’s national identity. He pointed out that “Assimilation is particularly problematic for Mexicans and other Hispanics.” And he was right. The Germans, Irish, Jews and Italians who immigrated into the United States in the past were proud of their national origin, but they never ceased to regard themselves as Americans and to respect its national symbols. For that reason Huntington suggested that the entry of Mexicans into the United States ought to be limited and that more energetic measures should be taken to integrate those who may already be inside the country.
It’s not to anyone’s benefit that Mexicans be seen as traitors in the country which has taken them in with generosity and which has allowed them to build a prosperity that Mexico denied them. For that reason, at a time when there are people in Mexico who rejoice when the American National Anthem is booed at a sporting event in New Jersey, let us think what this would mean for us if a foreign community would do it at Aztec Stadium. _________________
La Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 7/28/09
Guatemalans to lobby U.S. Congress for immigration reform – [full transl.]
After two days of continuous dialogue, migrants’ organizations and the Government of Guatemala concluded that it is urgent to establish a regional bloc to persuade U.S. members of Congress regarding an integral immigration reform. After a dialogue held last weekend in Chicago, representatives from the Executive, the Judiciary and from organizations in favor of the undocumented [aliens in the U.S.] drew up a paper with a lobbying plan for immigration reform. Edgar Ayala, with the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities [“NALACC”] explained that 218 votes are needed in the House of Representatives and 60 in the Senate. He stated, “The numbers are not in our favor. Therefore, one of the conclusions is that we will work with the senators who are not convinced, such as the blue dogs – blue dogs, Democrats who think and act like Republicans”
Byron Prado, of the Association of Guatemalans Abroad, said that from now on the leaders will not accept separate lobbying. He emphasized “We’ll go all together: Central American governments, migrants and congressmen.”
Vice Chancellor [equiv. Dep. Sec. of State] Miguel Angel Ibarra asserted that the government has a prepared agenda to lobby with senators, governors and mayors of the U.S. who are not in favor of reform. He insisted, “We’ll ask the support of congressmen who are in favor, to help us persuade those who are not.”
Julio Lopez, a (Guatemalan) Congressman, delegate to Guatemala’s Migrant Affairs National Council, committed himself to make the (Guatemalan) consulates to work to unite the migrants’ organizations in the U.S. He added, “That has been a great weakness of those organizations, which often have not reached a joint agreement, which is necessary for an immigration reform.”
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[The issue of the high levels of criminality is one often dealt with and seen in Central American newspapers, both in news items and in opinion columns and editorials. Following are three extracts from typical examples found today, one from El Salvador and the others from Nicaragua and Guatemala]
The issue of crime in Central America
La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 7/28/09
“Society as a whole is ever more impatient due to the lack of an authentic strategy against crime in all its facets.” Voices are beginning to be heard demanding that the forces of law and order deal with the issue because the date speaks for itself: violence has been growing in the country.
El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua) 7/28/09
[From an op/column under the heading “Why are crimes on the rise in Nicaragua?” The article goes on to list more than a dozen cause & effect inherent conditions and events regarding this issue] Among them: emigration to other countries to search for work, pervasive violence in the media, globalization of organized crime, deep socio-economic disparities, increase in use of drugs and alcohol by youths, family violence, lack of law enforcement, poor infrastructure. [The list goes on…]
Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 7/28/09
During the first semester of this year 78 bus drivers, 33 passengers and 16 drivers’ helpers were killed during assaults and robberies in Guatemala. Another 37 drivers were wounded, as well as 16 helpers and 45 passengers. [Buses are favorite targets for thugs in Guatemala; drivers are often victims of extortion and are even killed if they fail to pay “protection” money.]
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"At the final whistle, the green-clad Mexican players stormed onto the field in jubilation, mobbing Dos Santos and coach Javier Aguirre. Then they saluted the crowd that made the Meadowlands sound more like Mexico City, making a tour of the pitch with the trophy in hand." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJfcNtQ71BkbTFBn_tyRBuSD86cAD99MEKD00
Also from NAFBPO today.
Border Patrol Arrests Suspect Wanted for Endangering Officer
http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=10815298&nav=menu613_2_5
July 29, 2009 Yuma, AZ -- A man wanted for nearly running over a police officer after he was pulled over has been arrested. Now it's going to take more than traffic school to get him out of trouble. Back on Monday, Yuma police stopped Michael Morales at the Motel 6 on Arizona Avenue. That's when, officers say, Morales didn't take a ticket, but he sped off and almost hit the officer.
"We put out an attempt to locate which is basically distributed throughout the area to the local agencies," says Officer Clint Norred.
More than a week later, on Tuesday, Border Patrol agents patrolling near the Imperial Sand Dunes came across a familiar car on Interstate Eight.
"Well what they did is run the plate, and the plate came back to basically a wanted vehicle via our attempt to locate," says Norred.
Agents arrested Michael Morales and then called Yuma Police. Now a misdemeanor traffic violation has turned into possible felony charges. Prosecutors are considering charges of endangerment and unlawful flight.
Police say the coordinated efforts of local law enforcemen put a dangerous man behind bars.
"We really are kind of in our own spot away from some of the metropolitan areas so we all have to work together to get our individual missions done."
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The conquered colony doesn’t get to make the rules. The conquerors do.
No green card, in the wagon you go. Adios, muchachos!
I agree. A vanquished people cannot complain about the conquerors. Maybe later the Mexicans may allow us some mild criticism.
That’s is the craziest thing I’ve read in a while. It’s a sport ... not a political movement.
This is not our country anymore — we don’t even have a president who can prove that he is constitutionally eligible for the job or a Congress that challenges him to fully identify himself. Demographically we have become like the UN — we can expect another foreigner in the WH in the future.
We are certainly losing our country. Partly due to the predominance of economic thinking; partly due to extreme egalitarianism leading us to lose the ability to exclude; hence, “Toleration” which means the inability to say yes or no, the inability to take a stand; and, the loss is partly due to the disintegration of our culture destroying us as a “people.”
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome my new Mexican overlords.
Our ‘friend’..Mexico is also a conduit for any and all terrorists wanting to get into this country.
More from NAFBPO today
Chinese illegals paying $20,000 to cross border
Southern Arizona is seeing a surge in illegal border crossers, not from Mexico, but China.
According to Border Patrol, Chinese immigrants are willing to pay smugglers top dollar, tens of thousand of dollars a piece. International smugglers guide them from The Peoples Republic of China to Mexico and into Arizona.
Recent hot beds for illegal border crossers include Nogales, Ajo, Lukeville and Sasabe.
On average, Mexican nationals pay coyotes up to $3,000 to guide them across the border and into the United States.
Immigrants from the People’s Republic of China are charged much, much more.
Mario Escalante with U.S. Border Patrol says, “The smuggling organizations charge anywhere from $20 to $30 thousand.”
That’s $20 to $30 thousand per immigrant, depending on how they’re smuggled in and the quality of their fake documents. It’s a lucrative business for international smugglers.
At the Tucson coordination center, between three and four hundred illegal immigrants are processed each day. All are interviewed, fingerprinted, and then bussed to Florence, Arizona to go before a judge.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement if no prior immigration or criminal record, they a plane ticket back to their home country. The average cost is $730 dollars per passenger. But if the immigrant poses a safety risk, they’re escorted by ICE agents on the plane. It’s all paid for by the U.S. government and your tax dollars.
In the first five months of this fiscal year 969 Chinese immigrants have been apprehended by Border Patrol nationally. Already way ahead of last year’s numbers when 836 were arrested. Of those, 30 were removed from Arizona and flown back to China, according to ICE.
Check out fiscal year 2005, broken down by citizenship:
Nationally 2,200 from The People’s Republic of China were arrested.
31,000 from Brazil
39,000 from El Salvador
Nearly 53,000 from Honduras and more than 1,000,000 from Mexico.
John Morton with ICE says, “Every indication is that they are coming here through sophisticated criminal networks that are charging these individuals enormous sums of money and holding them in deplorable conditions.”
“They’re not told they’re going thru travel in the desert for four to five days without water,” adds Escalante.
Instead, Escalante says naive immigrants put their lives on the line and in the hands of smugglers who promise them new opportunity and a better life.
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=10800572&nav=HMO6
And of course, there’s the unmentioned factoid that immigration officials have traditional estimated that they only catch about 10 to 20% of the people coming through.
So much for there only being about 11 million illegals here.
The U.S. Citizen is being betrayed.
If it is a good idea for millions of Mexicans to come here freely, then the U.S. Government should facilitate millions from every other nation on earth to come here. To do anything else is a blatant act of prejudice in favor of Mexicans above every other nationality.
I am so sick of this mess.
“If it is a good idea for millions of Mexicans to come here freely, then the U.S. Government should facilitate millions from every other nation on earth to come here. To do anything else is a blatant act of prejudice in favor of Mexicans above every other nationality.
I am so sick of this mess.”
It makes no practical sense, much less Constitutional sense, D1. I swear, the Mexicans have photos of our politicians in TJ with donkeys. Whatever is going on, its surely is corrupt.
That’s the only logical conclusion isn’t it. Corruption! Sure looks that way to me.
A day of reckoning is coming and it will not be pretty!!
Be Ever Vigilant!!
A reminder:
Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas funeral is scheduled for 9:00 A.M. Friday, July 31, 2009 at Southwest High School, followed by interment at Evergreen cemetary, both in El Centro, CA. IN MEMORIAM BPA Robert Rosas
On July 23, 2009, Border Patrol Agent Robert W. Rosas was shot to death by border bandits while carrying out the oath he swore three years ago. He was 30 years old. He leaves a young wife and two small children. May he rest in peace.
Murdered by illegal aliens from Mexico last week defending our borders... NOTHING from the Mainstream Media! And the retired border agents I speak with are heartbroken and feel betrayed...again.
Rest In Peace, Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas.
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