Posted on 03/29/2006 7:13:27 AM PST by Calugareni
ILLEGAL ALIEN MARCHES WARMLY SUPPORTED IN MEXICO by Allan Wall
They've been marching in the streets of our cities clamoring for "justice."
Throughout the land, they march - Denver, Sacramento, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Phoenix and so on.
Their cause - fighting for the "rights" of illegal aliens and keeping our borders open.
The biggest march of all was March 25th in Los Angeles, Calif., where police estimated the multitude's numbers at 500,000: Half a million people.
That's impressive. Should we therefore give these people everything they want? Many of our politicians seem to think so.
The U.S. Constitution, however, doesn't include street protest as a form of legislation. In fact, the men who drafted our constitution were not fond of what they called "mobocracy." As James Madison put it in Federalist Paper #55, "Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob."
Many of the demonstrators are illegal aliens themselves. In other words, they don't even have the right to be in the country, yet they're telling us how to run things. That's chutzpah.
Their defenders assure us that illegal aliens are "living in the shadows."
It doesn't look to me like the people in the L.A. street march were living in the shadows. They were out in broad daylight, marching openly, without fear, dictating to us what our immigration law should be.
Some of them carried signs that read, "If you think I'm ‘illegal' because I'm a Mexican learn the true history because I'm in my homeland."
Indeed, Mexican nationalism, ethnic chauvinism and downright racism were in evidence among L.A. protestors.
Why did so many display the Mexican flag if they are fighting for rights in the United States?
There were protestors with posters reading "Chicano Power" and "This is stolen land." Another poster bore the likeness of Mexican historical figure Emiliano Zapata with the slogan, "Viva Mexico."
Here in Mexico, where I (legally) reside, the L.A. march was called a "Megamarcha" and was warmly reported in the media.
But don't think for a second that Mexico would allow the same sort of nonsense to occur here. Mexico respects her sovereignty too much for that. Even we legal gringos are not allowed to participate in protest marches. In 2002, a number of Americans were immediately expelled for doing just that.
The Mexican Constitution's famous Article 33 gives the Mexican government the right to expel immediately, without right of appeal, any non-Mexican whose presence in the country is "deemed inconvenient."
But when illegal alien Mexicans march in the United States, that's considered a great thing.
In solidarity, a group of demonstrators (some carrying communist party banners) erected a cardboard wall in front of the U.S. Embassy, inscribing it with anti-American slogans.
In the Mexican Congress, it was announced that a document would be drafted, to show support for the protest marches in our country.
Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox, made this statement to support the marches: "The recent protests carried out in different places in the United States are indicative of the imminent necessity of a migratory accord that corresponds to the interests of both countries, and that especially to the defense of the rights of migrants. The government of the (Mexican) Republic ratifies its commitment to the Mexicans who live in the United States and its intention to work in the defense of their rights ..."
None of this is surprising. The L.A. protestors and the Mexican government share the same goals: legalize Mexican illegal aliens and keep the borders open.
The Mexican government sees it as a way to relieve economic pressure on the government to reform the economy. Mexico's leaders also work to retain the loyalty of emigrants so that, even if they become American citizens, they retain their loyalty to Mexico. And their plan is working.
Recently the Mexican government published advertisements in leading American newspapers calling for the legalization of illegal immigrants (in the United States, not in Mexico) and "a far-reaching guest workers scheme." Not only that, said the ads, but "in order for a (U.S.) guest workers program to be viable, Mexico should participate in its design, management, supervision and evaluation."
In other words, the Mexican government wants veto power over U.S. immigration policy.
And they might just get it.
After all, many in our own government are only too happy to oblige them.
Allan Wall (allan39@prodigy.net.mx) recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, and currently resides (legally) in Mexico.
"If you think I'm ‘illegal' because I'm a Mexican learn the true history because I'm in my homeland."
The government of the (Mexican) Republic ratifies its commitment to the Mexicans who live in the United States and its intention to work in the defense of their rights ..."
WHAT RIGHTS? They are residing in this country illegally.
Bush went there today to see Fox. I suspect he'll be warmly welcomed too.
Now there's a tidbit worth keeping.
bttt
Article 33 - Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualities determined in Article 30. They have the right to the guarantees of Chapter I of the first title of this Constitution, but the Executive of the Union has the exclusive right to expel from the national territory, immediately and without necessity of judicial proceedings, all foreigners whose stay it judges inconvenient. Foreigners may not, in any manner, involve themselves in the political affairs of the country.
I'd like to get that printed on a tee shirt, in both English and Spanish.
Bush is meeting with Fox and the PM of Canada today in Cancun, Mexico. They are discussing border policies.
In other words, don't stop the constant cash flow to us where one dollar is like nine here.
I an not a bit worried about the support in Mexico. It is the support this issue has in American businesses. This is about cheap labor. There was real organization behind all of this and the response of politicians is in total lockstep with the illegals. It is to their profit. They do not give a rat's behind about the people coming across those borders it is about money and power. The will of the people be dammed.
No fence, open borders, that kinda thing?
They've rounded themselves up for us and admit to being illegal, we just need to load them on a plane and take them home.
According to Babelfish this would be the spanish.
Artículo 33 - Los extranjeros son los que no poseen las calidades determinadas en el artículo 30. Tienen la derecha a las garantías del capítulo I del primer título de esta constitución, pero el ejecutivo de la unión tiene la derecha exclusiva de expeler del territorio nacional, inmediatamente y sin la necesidad de los procedimientos judiciales, todos los extranjeros que estancia juzgue incómoda. Los extranjeros no pueden, de ninguna manera, implicarse en los asuntos políticos del país.
We're losing it.
Let 'em fix their own country. And this is the reason Fox and his colleagues keep this border fight going: it takes the Mexicanos' minds off of the desparate situation that dysgoverning has done to them.
And warm bodies to fill the public schools and subsidized housing. That another way they provide profits to unions and companies recieving government grant money.
Impeach President Bush
People generally get the government they deserve.
Mojave wrote: "Bush went there today to see Fox. I suspect he'll be warmly welcomed too."
Bush is (and has been) on the wrong side of this issue for some time. Perhaps he thinks the situation is hopeless, so we might as well let them stay. When I see mobs of people marching in the US and carrying Mexican flags, I have to wonder, have we already lost this cause like so many other conservative ones. BTW, I'm actually for immigration, legal immigration. But the illegals have no right to be here and have no loyalty to our country.
What would I do? I'd offer a worker program IF the person was in Mexico, could pass certain requirements (no serious diseases, has a job lined up, and is free of a criminal past). For those caught in the US without the proper authorization, they would be immediately deported and banned permanently from returning.
Native Americans would take issue with that statement.
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