Phyllis Schlafly: Are Mexican Immigrants Assimilating Or Invading?

Too Good Reports ^ | December 2, 2001 | Phyllis Schlafly

[Stand Watch Listen]

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, support for the United States has poured in from around the world, but the response from Mexico has been decidedly lukewarm. A Gallup poll reported that 78 percent of Mexicans oppose contributing troops to a multinational coalition, and we have seen no indication that Mexico will modify its oil policy of acting like a member of OPEC.

While there is no evidence that the 9/11 terrorists entered over the Mexican border, the trial in El Paso of an Iraqi smuggler produced evidence that he alone brought more than 1,000 Middle East illegals into the United States via that route, charging his clients $10,000 to $15,000 each. Border Patrol agents have confirmed the increase in illegal aliens coming from the Middle East across our southern border and the fact that Arabs pay up to $50,000 each for a "coyote" to smuggle them into the United States.

The 9/11 events have temporarily shelved the foolish proposals to grant amnesty to three million Mexicans illegally living in our country. Unfortunately, there is no indication that Mexico has retreated from its longtime goal of opening the U.S. border.

In Chicago on July 27, 1997, then Mexican President Ernesto Zedilla told the National Council of LaRaza, "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders." He announced a Mexican constitutional amendment that purports to allow Mexicans to retain their Mexican nationality even though they become U.S. citizens (which is contrary to the U.S. naturalization oath).

When President Vicente Fox came to the United States this year, he reiterated this line, proclaiming that "the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders" and includes migrants living in the United States. He called for open borders and endorsed Mexico's new dual citizenship law.

Some Mexicans use the term "reconquista," which is Spanish for reconquest, to describe their desire to see California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas acquired by Mexico and named the new country of Aztlan. They are teaching their youth that the United States "stole" those areas from Mexico and that they should be "returned."

The United States acquired the Southwest a century and a half ago in three ways: part by the 1845 annexation agreement with Texas, which was then an independent republic, part ceded by Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican-American War, and part by the 1852 Gadsden Purchase.

Mexico's claim to the Southwest originated with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which drew an imaginary line on the map to divide the Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal. Because geography had so many unknowns at that time, Portugal got only Brazil (which is why Brazilians speak Portuguese).

Other countries never recognized this treaty, and Americans consider it ridiculous even to talk about giving the Southwest to Mexico. Most national borders all over the world have come about as the result of war.

Mexicans obviously have no thought of invading the Southwest with troops, so their hope is reconquista by migration, both legal and illegal. According to Mario Obledo, founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, "California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

An amnesty rally in the Los Angeles Sports Arena on June 10, 2000 attracted 25,000 people. In demanding amnesty for illegal Mexican aliens, the speakers proudly announced the names of at least a dozen unions in Los Angeles that are now headed by Mexicans.

Vicente Fox presented Mexico's Congress with a five-year development plan to eliminate the U.S.-Mexican border. He said he plans to serve "the 100 million Mexicans who now live in Mexico and the more than 18 million who live abroad," and to "strengthen our ability to protect and defend the rights of all Mexicans abroad."

Juan Hernandez, appointed by Fox as special liaison to Mexicans abroad, lobbies to get U.S. driver's licenses issued to illegal aliens and defends the Mexican government's issuance of desert survival kits to those sneaking across the border. On ABC's Nightline on June 7, he boasted: "We are betting that the Mexican-American population in the United States ... will think Mexico first."

Fox's five-year plan calls for building a larger consular presence in the United States, and this is already in operation. In U.S. areas with large Hispanic (including illegal) populations, the Mexican consul donates to the local public schools the same textbooks that are used in every elementary school in Mexico, grades 1 through 6.

The books, written in Spanish and including all academic subjects, teach that America "stole" the southwest from Mexico and that Mexico is entitled to take it back. The Mexican government considers these textbooks a symbol of Mexican national pride, guarantees a set to every Mexican child, and makes it a crime for anyone to sell them.

The only reason we learned about this Mexican plan is that one school in Santa Ana, California, decided to sell the books at a book fair and the local Hispanics kicked up a fuss about it. The school apologized to the Hispanics for selling the books, but should have apologized to the students for accepting the books in the first place.

The question we should ask our Mexican immigrant friends is, are you assimilating or invading?

[Joe Hadenuf]

If all else fails, pull the ol race card. The race card strategy is has become so old and weak. Only bottom feeders and America haters attempt to use it routinely.

[NYCVirago]

Irrelevant to you maybe, but not to me. The democratic congresswoman on whose website she was listed on the very week she stole the Bush debate video....that congresswoman was hispanic too. Lozano (whatever her name is!) had also attended a democrat 'activists' school. Perhaps that was where she learned the dirty, imprisonable tricks. She's now in a federal prison where she has lotsa company of those with whom she is culturally familiar.

Give me a break. Former Democrat Mark McKinnon was responsible for bringing her into the campaign, used Lozano as a babysitter, and refused to attack Lozano in his victims' impact statement, so why don't you dis him as well? Since he's not Hispanic, so you consider him irrelevant. There are plenty of slimy Democrats of all races who do shady things. That judge in Maine who spread the Bush DWI story did more damage to the Bush campaign than Lozano did, but since he's white, you don't seem to care about going after him.

[NYCVirago]

Re your post 175: It's not that she is 'disloyal'. Don't you get it? She was/is a kind of domestic terrorist. She purposely, disingenuously signed on to the Bush campaign with intent. For info on the relative numbers of convicted felonies her people commit, please simply visit the official FBI website. It's all there in black and white. Now if you want to argue that they don't have enough flour and beans for tacos and burritos, and that's the reason for statistical crime numbers, well- didn't we have that argument and experiment during and post 1965-- The Great Society? OK, we'll go at it again!

Your comments are racist and disgusting.

[NYCVirago]

re 185: I'm not partial to any democrats. It happens that I vivdly recall the Lozano incident.

Give me a break. Of all the examples you can cite on dirty tricks, you just happen to choose that one, and insinuate that she did that because of "her people" and her background. No, you're not a racist. (/sarcasm)

[janetgreen]

Where is Tustin CA?

Tustin is fifteen minutes north (inland) of Newport Beach, part of the formerly Republican stronghold of Orange County.

Tustin is an upscale newer community that is becoming plagued with crime from next-door Santa Ana, a Tijuana clone. Santa Ana has more Mexican gangs than you can count, and they spread their mess in the nicer communities surrounding Santa Ana because there's more to steal there. Gunshots are heard every night in Santa Ana. It's now about 90% Mexican, hardly any English spoken there. Santa Ana used to be a very nice little town, but no more.

It doesn't stop in Santa Ana. Towns nearby like Anaheim, Orange, Fountain Valley have also been invaded by illegals and the mess they bring with them.

Kalifornia governor Red Davis made sure that the pregnant illegals would receive prenatal care, along with all the other freebies, paid for by the unwilling citizens of Kalifornia. He kisses up to all the Mexican politicians in Kalifornia government, elected with the help of guess who? Illegals who vote!

[watcher1]

I'll be watching you ......comrade

[Travis McGee]

Thanks. It's the same down here in San Diego County.

The final and perhaps worst dagger stab in the back from Davis is his giving ILLEGAL aliens the "in state" tuition rate at all state universities. This means that an ILLEGAL alien will pay 1/3 of the cost to attend college that the American citizen son of a Marine stationed in Kali will pay.

When I think about that, I nearly explode.

[FreeLibertarian]

What part of the moon are you living on? Stick to working on legalizing pot or whatever nonsense Lib's work on but stay out of the immigration debate because you don't have a clue.

I was born and raised in New Mexico and have lived here most of my life. My families recorded history in NM goes back over two hundred and fifty years. That's an excellent basis for my observations.

What's the matter, don't you like someone debunking your boogey-man stories? Or are you a racist trying to justify your warped ideas?

This Atzlan nonsense is real, but laughable. It should only frighten the mentally deprived.

[FreeLibertarian]

See post #194, it applies to you just as well.

[NYCVirago]

re 188: Don't blame me for Lozano's criminality. She's in a federal prison.

Where did I blame you for what Lozano did?

[Pelham]

Don't you have to go grafitti a wall?

[NYCVirago]

Crime stats are crime stats. Do you not accept the accuracy of the FBI figures? We could talk about the accuracy of the data.

Nearly all serial killings are committed by white men. Does that mean all white men are bad?

[185JHP]

Large groups of people who try to force people that were born here to "coddle and support" their attempts to take over and Balkanize our country should, can, and will be resisted. That said, there are many fine people of Mexican descent - the "keep the language" motivation isn't unique to them - researchers have found that at one time there were 200 German language newspapers in the U.S. As long as there is a constant influx of immigrants speaking the foreign language, it's relatively easy for the hardheads to have their way.

[NYCVirago]

Pelham writes:

Don't you have to go grafitti a wall?

That's a pretty ignorant comment. Mvscal is a college graduate and a Gulf War veteran, but because of his race, he's just a gangbanger to you. How sad.