Posted on 01/10/2005 3:40:45 AM PST by Klickitat
For decades now, our bad neighbor to the south has aided and abetted its impoverished citizens in their efforts to enter the United States illegally – a process that pays handsome dividends to Mexico, but results in massive trauma and social upheaval for the gringos.
The latest attack on our sovereignty is a 32-page color comic book published by Mexico’s foreign ministry and designed as a self-help manual for illegal aliens.
The publication (which should be titled "Juan and Miguel Join Mexico’s National Synchronized Swimming Team") contains helpful advice on crossing the Rio Grande (wear light clothing), traversing the desert (carry salt tablets as well as water) and preventing repatriation once the illegal arrives in the U.S. (avoid bar brawls, domestic disturbances, drunk driving, and other behavior likely to attract the attention of authorities).
"This guide is intended to give you some practical advice that could be of use if you have made the difficult decision to seek new work opportunities outside your country," the handbook explains. (Emphasis added.) More than 1.5 million copies have already been distributed, inside a popular cowboy comic book – indicative of the level of literacy in Old Mexico.
To cries of outrage on this side of the border, the Mexican government responds that it isn’t encouraging illegal immigration (Why, they wouldn’t dream of it!) but is merely trying to protect its itinerant citizens.
"Last year, over 300 Mexicans died in their attempt to enter the United States (illegally-DF) in search of a job, and the government has the obligation to avoid that," says Geronimo Gutierrez, undersecretary of North American Affairs for Mexico’s foreign ministry.
Well, if Gutierrez and the government of Vincente Fox (who calls border-jumpers "heroes") is really interested in preventing the deaths of Juan and Miguel, it has only to describe, in graphic detail, what it’s like to die of dehydration in the desert – illustrated with appropriate photographs – instead of facilitating their criminality.
Or, it could tell its citizens how to apply for a visa. (Wouldn’t that be a novelty: Mexicans who enter the U.S. legally.) Instead, it encourages its citizens to break our laws and undermine our national identity.
Even the friends of a porous border understand that the move is a PR disaster.
A January 5th editorial in the pro-immigration Arizona Republic observes that the comic book will make it harder for the Bush administration and its congressional allies – in this case, including Edward Kennedy – to sell another amnesty or a "guest-worker" program to the American people.
"Mexico’s booklet on how to sneak into the United States…raises serious doubts about whether Mexico will ever help curb illegal migration – even if the United States creates a legal mechanism for large numbers of workers to obtain temporary work visas," the editorial warns.
Let any lingering doubts be dispelled! Short to stationing troops on the border to provide cover fire for infiltrators, the Mexican government will do everything in its power to facilitate illegal immigration.
The heirs of Montezuma and Cortez have a continent to gain and nothing to lose.
Once in the U.S., the "migrant" goes from wages of $5 per day, to $60 a day for manual labor. Mexico gets to export its surplus population. And the nation receives $15 billion annually in remittances. This exceeds its combined income from tourism and foreign investments, and is second only to oil exports as a source of national wealth.
Mexicans here constitute a growing constituency for whatever Mexico City wants from Washington -- due to the latest fashion in political pandering: courting the Hispanic vote – and a fifth column which could eventually wrest California, Texas and the Southwest away from America (La Reconquista).
And there’s never a penalty. After wiping the spittle from our face, we continue to shower benefits (like NAFTA) on those who mock our laws and undermine our sovereignty, Mexico City’s modern-day Pancho Villas.
Within days of his re-election, the president dispatched Secretary of State Colin Powell to Mexico to re-start talks on the size and scope of the latest proposed amnesty (which, of course, isn’t being called an amnesty) and guest-worker program.
Illegal immigration doesn’t work quite as well for the importing nation as it does for the exporters, despite the pleading of Fortune 500 Republicans about the "jobs Americans won’t take." In reality, illegal immigration artificially depresses the wages of certain jobs, making them unattractive to Americans.
Cheap immigrant labor is really quite dear. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, illegal aliens cost the state of California $10.5 billion annually, or almost $1,200 per year for every native-born family.
Included in that cost is $7.7 billion to educate the children of illegal aliens (who now constitute 15 percent of the state’s K-12 enrollment), $1.4 billion for health care for illegals and their families and the same amount to incarcerate alien lawbreakers.
In 1980, fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens were held in our state or federal prisons. That number grew to more than 68,000 in 1999. In Orange County, California alone, there are 275 street gangs, with 17,000 members – 98 percent Mexican or Asian. Not only do our uninvited guests get to rob, rape, murder, and deal drugs, but we get to pay for the incarceration of those who are caught.
Restaurants, landscapers, contractors and meatpacking plants get labor at below-market prices. The taxpayer gets the bill. As Milton Friedman admonishes us, there is no such thing as a free lunch, especially when it comes to immigration.
But that’s not the worst of it.
Besides crime, poverty and increased social costs, those who make the difficult decision to seek new work opportunities in the Golden Pinata – 300,000 a year, net – bring with them language fragmentation, alienation, and a loss of national identity.
Are you scared yet? Do you now understand that Mexico’s comic book/handbook for illegals is one more salvo in its undeclared war on America? (Call it the Mexican-American War, Round 2.)
All of which is not to say that Mexican-Americans (not those who call themselves Chicanos, but Americans of Mexican ancestry) can’t be good citizens. There are Mexican-Americans whose families have been here for generations. More than 30 percent of Mexican-American voters in California supported Proposition 187. Mexican-Americans have bled for our flag and died defending our borders.
Still, immigration from Mexico poses a special problem. Roughly one million better-job-seekers cross the rivers and deserts along the 2,000-mile Mexican-American border each year.
Between January 4 and October 1 of last year, the number of infiltrators apprehended jumped 13 percent (to 194,576). "This is clearly tied in with President Bush’s call after his re-election to revive the guest-worker program," observes T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, representing 10,000 Border Patrol agents. "Migrants are rushing over the border to take advantage of that."
Build it, and they will come.
From Washington to Sacramento, we’re building it – with amnesties, welfare benefits, drivers licenses for illegals, lax immigration enforcement and language pandering). And they are coming – a hungry, ravaging, grudge-bearing alien horde. If it continues, and our national house is still standing a few decades hence, it will be a miracle.
No fish in this pond rod. Troll someone else. Try and defend your OB mentallity instead of baiting, for once. Blackbird.
Bump for later read. Thanks
Why aren't they storming Fox's palace? Fox should be held by the world court for squandering his country's potential.
I'll bet TJ has 15 FR handles.
Any shiny new laws that the President wants will not include citizenship. This is not about citizenship. It's about globalization and migrant labor -- developing nations' economic diaspora, "nations beyond borders."
Watch for the next shiny new law that the President wants. It will allow Mexicorruption to tax the incomes of its "citizens beyond borders." Remittances ain't enough.
denial: not just a river in Egypt...
I have felt the same way for a few years now. When do you beleive this event will unfold? 10-20years? or sooner?
I believe you are right. It is a sad state of affairs when average everyday citizens begin thinking like this because we have a government that refuses to enforce our federal laws and our constitution.
Americans will get pushed around for just so long before they start fighting back.
You posted the definition of "traitor". Who are you calling a traitor? Perhaps you should ask the moderator to remove your post if you are unwilling to say who you are calling a traitor.
accept=except
The "Requonquista" of the southwest (and, eventually, of all America) is well underway. It is "quickening" and is becoming as real as The War With Islam.
And - as with The War With Islam - the question no longer is "is there indeed a war?", but rather, can our enemy be stopped, or is it too late? And, if it is _not_ too late, _how can_ the enemy be stopped?
It's both ironic and fitting that the title of the original post uses the term "The Mexican-American War, Round 2". We are literally being invaded by hostile non-citizens, year after year, by the MILLIONS, and almost no one in power will lift a finger to do anything to bring the invasion to a halt, letalone repel the enemy already here. An enemy that threatens to destroy our wage base along with our culture and way of life.
I have become convinced that the United States is destined to _lose_ this second Mexican-American war. And, if we are _not_ to lose, I'm convinced that the only solution is a genuine shooting war with, and subsequent occupation of, Mexico by the United States.
This will result in the overthrow of the corrupt Mexican government, of course, although what must replace it is unclear. I advocate that we must consider after our occupation offering - perhaps, demanding - that the Mexican provinces enter statehood with the U.S.
Of course, you're now laughing and tossing the tinfoil my way. But consider: suppose we do _nothing_ (as we are doing now), or, worse, implement G.W. Bush's plan for "amnesty"? We will end up with a result that is _worse than_ having annexed Mexico and forced statehood upon the Mexican people.
The only other solution that will halt the invasion is to sever our relationship with Mexico and building an impenetrable wall between the two countries running from the Pacific to the Gulf. Anyone who argues that such a wall (and I don't mean a girlie-man "security fence") would not keep the overwhelming majority of border jumpers out is talking through their hat. Walls _work_ (witness that pesky one in Berlin, which I checked out from _both_ sides back in 1971). But, of course, I doubt that such a barrier is ever going to be constructed, even though that alone would save us from the conflict to come.
So, with no wall, I predict one of two possible outcomes:
1. The aliens from the south will continue to pour in, at increasing rates, until European-Americans become a miniorty within their own homeland.
2. We overthrow and annex Mexico, and force them to assimilate "towards" _our_ culture, rather than the other way around.
Conquer, or be conquered. Which will it be?
Cheers!
- John
Man, got that right.
BTW, my grandson and his friends got in trouble last week at school for saying "Mexican" instead of "hispanic". I ask him to tell me what they were talking about; turns out they were talking "food." Ain't that some stuff...
That definition fits Mexico perfectly.
Maybe the moderator could remove the numerous posts on numerous threads in which you've called other FReepers racists, xenophobes, white supremacists, anti-Mexican, etc.
This isn't a war --- it's been a surrender from the start. Vicente Fox and his cohorts call all the shots, our leaders cave on every demand. You have to wonder what kind of cards Fox is holding. He seems to have a whole lot of power.
If a white English-speaking American expresses displeasure over the prediction that his ethnic group (if present trends continue) is destined to lose its majority status, he will be called a racist.
"We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."
Well well. I appears as if the good Mr. Jose Angel Gutierrez is one fat pig of a racists.. It is no surprise he wound up on the dole at UTA, that is the biggest nest of commie but kissers in the entire DFW area. That is the place that attempted to have the word "picnic" declared raciest. They also taught for many years that the bombing of the NVA during the Nixon era was halted because... get this .... "the U.S. ran out of bombs."
The list of mind boggling commie leftest lies and childish illogic just firehoses out of that place. Mr. Jose Angel Gutierrez must feel right at home.
However I must point out that if the good Mr. Jose Angel Gutierrez BELIEVES any of his commie verbal diareia in regards to . . . .
"We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."
then the good Mr. Jose Angel Gutierrez is certifiably nuts and belongs in a rubber room.
If the illiterate illegals actually believe mexico will take over Texas, inclusive of Ft. Hood in central Texas, the lignite mines in the east and the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Assembly Facility in the north, etc, etc then a slaughter WILL OCCURE the likes of which will make the Indian Ocean tsunami look like 4th grade dodge ball game. Mexico will lose another quarter of their population. Only that quarter will not be sending any pesos south to mama.
Which is why the Mexican government is putting up it's offices throughout the USA --- these people moving in will not be Americans in any sense of the word --- except they will be entitled to everything and more than Americans are --- because Vicente Fox said that is how it will be. They will get our Social Security --- something Americans have to work years to get will require just one and a half years of work --- or just a claim to have worked here. Free health care, free education. Americans get what in return?
The Mexicans will remain citizens of their own government, not subject to our laws and our punishments. They will fly their own flag, when they shout viva la patria, they don't mean the USA.
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