Posted on 01/11/2005 10:05:54 AM PST by CHARLITE
For decades now, our bad neighbor to the south has aided and abetted its impoverished citizens 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. Over 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) 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% 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 and 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% 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.
· The number of Spanish-speakers in the U.S. is doubling every decade. We now have bi-lingual education, bi-lingual ballots and bi-lingual tests for drivers’ licenses.
· Almost anywhere in the country, when you pull up to a drive-through ATM, you’re given the option of proceeding in English or Spanish. Airport signs in both languages are common. (Can bi-lingual street signs be far behind?) Language-pandering has become a growth industry. Government, education and business all do their part to promote language ghetto-ization – to make it easy for Spanish-speakers to avoid learning English, and still make a living, get an education, raise a family and enjoy the rights of citizenship here.
· In 1999, the town of El Cenizo, Texas (south of Laredo) declared Spanish its official language and put out the welcome mat for illegal aliens, promising to protect them from the INS.
· Mexico’s total population is around 100 million. There are now 25.5 million post-1963 Mexican immigrants and their descendants in the United States. They constitute a nation within a nation – two-thirds the population of our largest state, alienated, belligerent and growing.
· Mexico has 54 consular offices in the United States – more than one for each state. They serve as support units for the alien invasion and brazenly interfere in American politics – from lobbying against official English measures (a few years ago, the consul general in Atlanta called the reform “racist” – this from the representative of a nation whose Congress is whiter than the Newport Yacht Club) to campaigning for new amnesties.
· To encourage Mexican nationals here to maintain their old identity and still influence our politics, Mexico has adopted a dual citizenship law.
· There’s hardly a public school in California that doesn’t have a Cinquo De Mayo essay contest. (Students in the state’s school system know more about a holiday celebrating one of Mexico’s rare military victories than the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving.)The birthday of labor agitator Cesar Chavez (March 31st.) is a California state holiday.
· The militant, separatist Chicano Student Movement of Atzlan (MEChA) has chapters at college and high school campuses across California and the Southwest. Its symbol is an eagle clutching a machete in one claw and a stick of dynamite in the other. It’s motto: “Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing).” It is radical, racist, anti-Semitic and works toward regional secession and the expulsion of non-Chicanos from the future nation of Atzlan. How do you say “Nazi” in Spanish?
· Antonio Villaraigosa – the former Speaker of the California State Assembly who came close to being elected mayor of Los Angeles in 2001, and is running again this year – headed the UCLA chapter of MEChA in his college days. As a candidate in 2001, Villaraigosa not only refused to disassociate himself from this brown fascist ideology, but said he was proud of the group.
· California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is another MEChA alumnus (Fresno State). As a candidate for governor in last year’s recall election, Bustamante supported then-Governor Gray Davis’ bill for driver’s licenses for illegal aliens and wanted to give illegals in-state tuition at California colleges and universities. When it comes to public benefits, Bustamante said no distinction should be made between those here legally and illegally.
· In a 1997 speech to the National Council of La Raza , former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said he “proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this.” In case you missed it, the Mexican government is saying its sovereignty extends to wherever Mexicans reside.
· Speaking in Nogales, in 2001, Mexican President Fox hailed illegal aliens with these words, “We want to salute these heroes, these kids leaving their homes, their communities, leaving with tears in their eyes, saying goodbye to their families, to set out on a difficult, sometimes painful search for a job, an opportunity they can’t find at home.” Americans too have tears in their eyes – when they survey the devastation wrought by Fox’s brave opportunity-seekers.
· Back in 1982, when the deluge was still a trickle, the Mexican newspaper “Excelsior” commented, “The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.”
· Speaking at a symposium on the 150th. anniversary of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago (which ended the Mexican-American War and transferred California and the Southwest to the United States), Jose Angel Pescador Osuna – then Mexico’s consul general in Los Angeles – remarked, “Even though I am saying this part serious and part joking, I think we are practicing la Reconquista in California.” No kidding!
· Here are a few more choice quotes from Reconquistadors: “Remember, 187 (the proposition denying public benefits to illegal aliens) was the last gasp of white power in California” (Art Torres, chairman of the Democratic Party in California), “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn’t like it should leave” (Mario Obledo, California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, awarded the Presidential Freedom Medal by Bill Clinton), “We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country….I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, ‘I’m going to go out there and vote, because I want to pay them back.’”( Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor). Have you guessed who “they” are, and how these new voters intend to pay us back, gringo?
· David Kennedy, Donald J. McLauchlan Professor of American History at Stanford University warns, “The possibility looms that in the next generation or so, we will see a kind of Chicano Quebec take shape in the American Southwest.”
· Antonio Navarro, a professor at the University of California at Riverside and prominent Chicano activist exults. “If in the next 50 years our people are subordinated, powerless, exploited and impoverished, then I will say to you that there are all kinds of possibilities for movements to develop like the ones that we’ve witnessed in the last few years all over the world, from Yugoslavia to Chechnya.” Would that include open guerrilla warfare and Chicano suicide bombers?
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. Over 30% 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% (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.
Comments:coldsteel@rcn.com
(A version of this article appeared on Front Page Mag.com)
It'll only stop once the border areas, OUTSIDE of the legitimate entry points, become a FREE FIRE zone.
Big deal, what's a little social upheaval and massive trauma? As long as the big party donors get their cheap/illegal labor (in return for their "generosity"), everything is cool.
......American national defense/security be damned.
...the Bush administration and its congressional allies -- in this case, including Edward Kennedy...
Another propaganda piece.
The problem here is not the Mexican government -- it's us. We Americans exacerbate this problem every time we delude ourselves into thinking we can maintain the highest standard of living in the history of mankind WITHOUT this kind of charade.
what are we going to do about this problem? why dont we stand up and do something. people need to get together and protect our country. we need real leadership to get us together, not just on this problem but other problems. we are letting our country go down the drain and no one is doing anything about it.
>>the attorney general, John Ashcroft, conceded before this committee that it's not sufficient to simply cite national security.<<
Where did the 911 terrorists come from? Texas, Arkansas or Oklahoma? Were they in fact American citizens and not Saudi Arabians and Egyptions? Does the FBI have there citizenship classifications backwards?
I am amazed to see Senator Kennedy bring out in public a "secret agreement", however I am glad that he did because the president certainly wouldn't mention it!
>>Sen. Kennedy: "One is the -- which we talked about -- the state and local law enforcement of immigration laws. You’re familiar with this. In 2002 the Department of Justice reversed long-standing policies -- supported the inherent authority of states to enforce federal immigration laws, and this -- that reversal was based on an Office of Legal Counsel opinion that’s not been made public. And I’ve asked for a copy of the opinions; so have others of the Congress; interested parties have asked for it too. The refusal to -- it’s been the subject of a lawsuit. The department’s response failed to provide the opinion but simply offered its conclusion without any discussion.
I have difficulty finding a good reason why the department continues to keep the opinion and its legal analysis secret, especially since it reverses a long-standing policy that scores of police chiefs, police departments around the country, including many in your home state of Texas, have denounced the idea of involving state and local police in federal immigration enforcement. Last month the International Association of Chiefs of Police issued a report expressing concern. They and others believe it will destroy the remarkable progress they’ve made with community policing in which police have worked closely with the public, including immigrant communities, and developed productive bonds of trust -- concerns raised by law enforcement shared by many conservative and security experts. I can’t believe I’m quoting Grover Norquist -- Bob Barr, the Heritage Foundation all say this could be an unmanageable burden on the law enforcement officials."
So could you tell us why -- quickly as you could -- the secrecy, and can you tell us whether you’d support them releasing the OLC opinion on the authority to --"<<
>>MR. GONZALES: "Senator, thank you for that question. You and I did talk about that in your office. This matter is in litigation, as you indicated; there is FOIA litigation about the release of the memo. The conclusions are known. << >> It’s the analysis, the deliberations that went into the opinion that I think the department is seeking to protect.<<
Then our new AG, >>MR. GONZALES says, "Personally, I would worry about a policy that permits someone, a local law enforcement official, to use this authority somehow as a club to harass -- they might be undocumented aliens, but otherwise lawful citizens. That would be troubling. That would be troubling to the president who, as a governor of a -- former governor of a border state understands and appreciates the roles that immigrants and undocumented aliens play in our society.<<
Did this sonofabitch work for El Presidente Fox at one time?
"undocumented aliens, but otherwise lawful citizens." <<
Here he is calling illegal aliens "lawful citizens"!!
If that is the case then shut down ICE!! because there is absolutely no need for them. Why bother granting permission to visit or work in the United States if immigrants and undocumented aliens are lawful citizens!!!!
Marine Inspector, I suggest that you start looking for another occupation soon, damn soon! This yoyo doesn't know what an illegal alien is!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317056/posts?page=63#63
Why that is a 750% increase!!! But wait, according to the Dept of Justice all incarceration, not just illegal immigrants, increased 400% from 1980-1999. The numbers provided in this story are misleading if one is ignorant of incarceration trends of the country. You only get halftruths from Don Feder. I haven't taken the time to look up statistics for black incarcerations or women incarcerations but I bet they to have a simular increased incarceration rate as illegal immigrants from 1980-1999.
They make $60 a day????????and we support them with welfare and free healthcare?? And school their little....and we the taxpayer get to pay for this?? No wonder they can afford the SUV with the loud stereos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313771/posts
Char :)
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A FLOOD OF CRAP!!(and we cleaned that up a whole lot)
ROGER'S SOURCE calls last week, sputtering mad. Has all too often has occasion to be down along Dairy Mart Road as the TJ river flows into USA.
Normally there's not much in the river, but come the big rains of recent days and source said it appears that every resident in Tijuana throws stuff into the river on that side and sends it to America. Including (burp) raw sewage.
We're trying to take notes and he's livid mad. Millions of plastic containers, tires, human waste clinging to the banks and then flowing into USA, and then the Pacific. Imagine unplugging your septic tank and letting it flow. An environmental disaster that has lasted several weeks > because we've had serious rainfall. Not a peep from anybody, except ROGER, as he reports this crap on the air.
Remember please that "environmentalists" are standing in the way of completion of the border fence at Border State Park in Imperial Beach. Wackjobs say weeds and insects would be disturbed. That's crazy because all of the terrain has been destroyed by hoards of illegals who tramp through the park on the way to fast food jobs in America.
Congressman Duncan Hunter has been fighting these green folks for years and still no completion of the border fence.Now comes the crap floods from Mexico and where be the environmentalists? Smoking the weed in a tree someplace.
Millions of gallons of feces, like a tsunami of sewage, and silence from the folks who protect Mother Earth.because it's coming from Mexico. We dare not complain if Mexicans crap on America. They are deprived, destitute and have to take a dump someplace so the river seems a good place.
Okay!! The source also tells us that there are runoff pipes designed to control water flow from Mexico into USA. When it doesn't rain the Border Patrol has to gate the USA side of the pipes cause illegals use the pipes as an express lane into our country. When it rains heavy the gates have to be opened because (smart suckers) the Mexicans toss mattresses into the pipes to block and blow the gate at the other end. After we open the gates and the rain slows down, whoosh the pipeline fills with coyotes and their prey.
Just another day along the San Diego - Tijuana border front. Burp.
Homegrown nutballs complain on a constant basis about things that live in sand and that means we can't do the ATV off road thing in large portions of the desert. But millions of illegals trample across that same stretch of sand squashing bugs and rare plants and dumping garbage as they go, and no peep.
Sounds like we need a special cadre of citizen-lobbyists to target specific environment committees and green lawmakers during our visit to D.C.
Thousands of us fly to D.C. and lobby every member of Congress. You have your own issue where you live; illegals taking jobs, running across your property in the middle of the night, killing your livestock, shutting down your hospitals and emergency rooms, doing the gang thing in LA, murdering Americans and fleeing to Mexico to escape punishment, clogging up classrooms, costing taxpayers billions on the state and local scene with no reimbursement from the feds...add your concern to the list.and JOIN US IN D.C.
We are being led by ROGER and thousands of folks from the Federation for American Immigration Reform and a host of other immigration reform groups. We are contacting other radio talk show hosts from across the country > urging them to get tough with their listeners on this topic and join us to broadcast live from the Capitol building on April 25 and 26th.
And let's get some of y'all folks from the Canadian border in D.C. too. A source up there tells us that our northern border is a terrorists wonderland. Check points shut down at night. Illegals use railroad handcarts to rush drugs, illegals and who knows what else into USA. So sophisticated are they that many dress up like artic warriors in white outfits to make the trek. And how about you folks in the mid-west. Even small town America now has a "little Mexico," and a flourishing underground economy.
The time is now. Amnesty is on the menu of the 109th. Drivers licenses for illegals. Reaffirmation of the hands off policy about hiring illegals. We take a stand here or we take no stand.
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