Posted on 04/18/2006 12:56:16 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," April 17, 2006, that has been edited for clarity.
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: A movement calling for Mexico to take over America's Southwest to create a new nation called Aztlan has entered the immigration debate. Supporters of this movement participated in the recent nationwide immigration protest.
The Web site ImmigrationWatchdog.com has produced a three-minute videotape of speeches by Hispanic professors and elected officials making reference to Aztlan.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas, because we belong here.
We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They're dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLMES: Joining us now, the man behind ImmigrationWatchdog.com, Brook Young.
Mr. Young, The Washington Times had a story on this whole movement just yesterday and quoted a number of people allegedly in this moment, and they say these are just fringe people. This is not what they're doing. This is really an effort on the part of anti-immigrant forces like yourself to gin up people's emotions in terms of there being a movement that really doesn't exist except on the far fringe.
BROOK YOUNG, IMMIGRATIONWATCHDOG.COM: Oh. Well, there's definitely a movement. This isn't a fringe movement. These are college professors speaking in this video. This is them. This is their voices. This is what they believe in. It's what they teach. These are political leaders of the Latino leaders.
COLMES: I'd like to know who's doing this. Fredrico Rangel of the University of Colorado. He's an officer at MEChA. And he says that this is a.....
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You are incorrect. Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1820 or so. The Texas Revolution was 1836, the Mexican War was in 1847, as I recall. These territories were acquired from Mexico, not Spaion.
1841 Texas soldiers invade New Mexico and claim all land east of the Rio Grande. Efforts thwarted by Gov. Manuel Armijo.
1846 Mexican-American War begins. Stephen Watts Kearny annexes New Mexico to the United States.
1847 Taos Rebellion against the U.S. military. Gov. Chat Charles Bent killed.
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War.
1850 New Mexico (which included present-day Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and southern Nevada) is designated a territory but denied statehood.
1851 Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy arrives in New Mexico and establishes schools, hospitals and orphanages throughout the territory
1854 The Gadsden Purchase front Mexico adds 45,000 square miles to the territory
1861 Confederates invade New Mexico front Texas. The Confederate Territory of Arizona is declared with the capital at La Mesilla. Territory of Colorado is created. New Mexico loses extreme northern-most section to the new territory
1862 Battles of Velarde de and Glorieta Pass fought, ends confederate occupation of New Mexico.
1863-68 Known as the "Long Walk," Navajos and Apaches are relocated to Bosque Redondo: finally allowed to return to their homelands after thousands die of disease and starvation.
1863 New Mexico is partitioned in half. Territory of Arizona is created.
1878 The railroad arrives in New Mexico, opening full-scale trade and migration from the east and midwest. Lincoln County War erupts in southeast New Mexico
http://www.ppsa.com/magazine/NMtimeline.html
The treaty of Hidalgo was with Mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
They realize this. They're fighting the second Mexican American War, and given the response of our political "leaders" to date, they've won the intial battles.
Wow, what blatant sedition.
A good number of these 'bleeding heart' voters were legalized in the last amnesty. The state that elected Reagan twice would NEVER elect him thesee days.
The brainstems in the GOP should consider that before voting thru another amnesty.
THIS is like YOU building up a business that your father had, but you ended up running.....and then some half sister coming in and saying....well....now IT SHOULD BE MINE! Sheesh.....can you imagine if New Mexico WAS turned over to the Mexican's? What a he**hole it would become....in no time. THEY come here for what WE HAVE BUILT! NOT for what THEY CAN BUILD.
There is American precedent.
According to the telephone ticket sales clerks at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, they could not sell Olympic tickets to people in New Mexico because the telephone sales were restricted to American (USA) customers only. Foreign customers had to use mail order.
Pretty much already has happened my friend. This is not the same state I was proud to have been born in.
Yes, I did vote for Arnold, too. How long ago were the 187 and 209 votes? And what did the courts do with those propositions? How many conservatives are in high office in California right now? I voted for Arnold because I am a realist. I absolutely did not want Bustamente to be Governor. Sadly, I knew that Tom McClintock couldn't win. Arnold won because Repubs and Indys voted for him. The Indys here generally vote for the Dems. The bleeding hearts didn't vote in either of those props. And for the last time, Arnold may say he's a Repub but he's really only the closest thing that can win a statewide election here.
You left out the part about General Winfield Scott and His right hand man Capitan Robert E Lee who invaded Mexico, crossed the country and captured Mexico City. It was a combined arms engagement involving the US Army, the US Navy and the Marine Corps. The Marines celebrate the event with their hymn "From the halls of Montezuma......"
General Scott licked the dictator Santa Ana on his home turf and was offered the position of King of Mexico but he turned it down.
I was just making the point that I like NM alot more than CA. I don't think we should give them anything. Well, except maybe 20 million of their own citizens back.
susie
We should give it back to the Aztecs, or which ever Native American population the early Mexicans slaughtered into non-existence.
It's a pity that he didn't become the king. The Mexican people would have been better off. :)
I guess I wasn't clear. Need a little sarcasm smilie.
susie
Yes, I know. I was just back in NM for a month. Forgot how much I love that state, altho it's changed alot too.
susie
No....but California, on the other hand....hmmmmmm??!!
The California voters overwhelmingly approved 187 but
rotten liberals and groups like the ACLU, Mecha and the the rest sued in court for it not to take effect.
Gray Davis was the governor (or lack thereof). He had an obligation under California law to defend the law in court as the voters passed it. He didn't. He let it roll into the dirt into oblivion. I am sure that there is something that can be done to revive it, but I don't know what or who would do something since it seems that the California legislature is derelict and everyone in it should be charged with malfeasance of office. Davis should have been after screwing the voters on 187.
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