Why Is America Negotiating Away Her Sovereignty?

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Why Is America Negotiating Away Her Sovereignty?

By Allan Wall

FrontPageMagazine.com | July 3, 2001

WHY IS AMERICA NEGOTIATING away her sovereignty? There is simply no other way to adequately describe the present negotiations with the Mexican government over U.S. immigration policy. Rather than being left to the American people to manage, through their elected senators and representatives, the establishment of a bilateral working group to deal with U.S. immigration policy indicates that the sovereign right to control its own borders and immigration policy is being negotiated away to the Mexican government. Make Comments View Comments Printable Article Email Article

The problem is, the Mexican government is not negotiating in good faith. The goal of the Fox administration is to continue using the United States as a safety valve. Mexico's white elite government wants as many of the country's poorer and darker-skinned citizens as possible to emigrate to the U.S. They also want the American taxpayer to provide Mexican immigrants, legal or illegal, with government benefits that they can't obtain in Mexico. And, they are working hard to maintain the loyalty of Mexican immigrants in the U.S., so that even if they become American citizens, their primary loyalty will be to Mexico. These goals are not new - the previous Zedillo administration had them as well- but the Fox administration is bolder in their application and has a more coordinated and strategic manner of carrying them out.

Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, in Phoenix at a meeting of Latino journalists on June 21st, dictated a non-negotiable program that the Mexican government expects the Bush Administration to follow. Castañeda made it clear that he would brook no compromise - "It's the whole enchilada or nothing, we can't slice it one piece at a time."

What exactly is included in Castañeda's list of demands? Basically, the complete surrender of U.S. sovereignty over immigration policy. America must legalize all Mexican illegal aliens, loosen its already lax border enforcement, establish a guest worker program (during an economic downturn) and exempt Mexican immigrants from U.S. visa quotas! Not only that, but the Mexican government is demanding that Mexicans living in the U.S. receive health care (provided by the American taxpayer) and in-state college tuition. As Castañeda aptly described such demands during a visit to Tijuana on June 27th, "We must obtain the greatest number of rights for the greatest number of Mexicans in the shortest time possible." (Remember, he is referring to rights for Mexicans in the United States, not in Mexico!)

The Mexican government is demanding a complete capitulation of the United States on immigration policy and national sovereignty. What's also amazing is that nothing of substance is being offered in return. Mexican government officials have taken their measure of the Bush Administration and concluded that they probably can demand and receive much of what they want. They are not even very secretive about it. Castañeda referred to the United States's transfer of immigration policy from domestic policy to international diplomacy, pointing out that such a change "is totally, radically new". Such a change is quite satisfactory to Castañeda, who once wrote that "Some Americans.... dislike immigration, but there is very little they can do about it."

Castañeda is not alone in the Mexican government in his utter contempt for U.S. sovereignty. Ernesto Ruffo, Mexico's Commissioner for Northern Affairs advised would-be illegal immigrants that ".... if the border patrol finds you, try again." Fox himself calls illegal aliens "heroes", and the Mexican government recently distributed thousands of survival packets to Mexicans preparing to make the trek north as illegal aliens (the packets included lists of California hospitals where illegals could obtain free medical care).

The Mexican government is also determined to retain the loyalty of Mexican immigrants, regardless of legal status or citizenship. National Security Adviser Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, before taking office, wrote in an editorial here in Mexico proposing the mobilization of Americans of Mexican ancestry as a tool of Mexican foreign policy. Juan Hernandez, head of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad clearly stated that "We are betting that the Mexican American population in the United States .... will think Mexico first." This should be considered an insult to the many patriotic Americans of Mexican ancestry - they of course are not the problem! The problem is a growing number of newer immigrants is indeed remaining loyal to Mexico. And Fox?s promise to grant voting rights to Mexicans living in the United States sets the stage for a massive increase in double citizenship. If not checked, the not-too-distant future could hold the prospect of millions of people voting in both countries and - Fox hopes - voting in the interests of the Mexican government!

The big question is - will the government of the United States of America defend the nation's sovereignty - or completely sell out to the Fox government? A national discussion of U.S. immigration policy is long overdue anyway. For too long criticism of immigration and assimilation policy have been considered taboo, but American citizens have every right to question present policy, as they do of any other public policy issue. Clearly, different Americans have different opinions on these matters. But the answers to fundamental questions about the nature of America's future should at least be determined by Americans themselves. They should not be negotiated away by the Bush Administration and then imposed upon them by the Fox Administration of Mexico.

Allan E. Wall is an American citizen who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1991. Presently employed as an English instructor and administrator, Allan has legal permission from the Mexican government to live and work in Mexico under the rubric of an FM-2 migration document (No. 312448) for which he had to pay $1,816.00 pesos for renewal this past year. Allan would be glad to receive questions or comments (pro or con), at allan39@prodigy.net.mx.

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A national discussion of U.S. immigration policy is long overdue anyway. For too long criticism of immigration and assimilation policy have been considered taboo, but American citizens have every right to question present policy, as they do of any other public policy issue.

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[stainlessbanner]

Sovereignty is an option that was defeated in 1865.

[3AngelaD]

Castaneda is doing his job: representing the best interests of the Mexican people, even if it comes at the expense of Americans. Unfortunately, our leaders aren't performing the same service on our behalf. Instead, they seem to be trying to find a way to do everything Castaneda wants, and more, without us being aware of it. Maybe people are starting to get it: Americans who can't afford to employ maids, who don't run farms or businesses that use low-skilled labor, are now expected to subsidize those workers, thereby subsidizing the businesses and lifestyles of those who can afford to hire them. American taxpayers are expected to pay for their medical care, underwrite their kids' education from Head Start through graduate school, pay benefits to their elderly (SSI) that they never earned, share all our land, water and other resources with them; we even pay the price of keeping them in prison. More than 60 percent of people in California prisons are immigrants. No need to negotiate away our sovereignty. The Mexican elites already have taken it, exporting their poverty here and then expecting us do something about it. And our government is only too happy to oblige.

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[Pistias]

Three words: SHOOT ON SIGHT

It'll only take a few corpses rotting in the desert to turn the rest back.

[IW]

During the years of 1846 through 1848, we fought for Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Northern california, and small portions of Colorado and Utah. It will be but a short time before Mexico reclaims this whole land mass and we will have never fired a shot, but that is what politics is all about.

You can not blame the Mexicans, but we sure can blame our National Leaders.

[Brownie74]

The goal of the Fox administration is to continue using the United States as a safety valve.

Safety valve my rear end. They're using us for a toilet valve!!

[FITZ]

Castaneda is doing his job: representing the best interests of the Mexican people

The elites are his people obviously. They've got all that oil and they want to make sure their brown people don't get any big ideas about all that improving their lives. They cut off irrigation water to the campesinos, their little farms are parched and scorched lands now --forcing them out of Mexico.

[jordan8]

Why is America negotiating away her sovereignty? Because by 1969, at the latest, the liberalism that controls America (by controlling its media and schools) had degenerated into an anti-white, genocidal, racist movement. By their control of the media, especially television, they control the political process by brainwashing the masses and thumping the pols who get out of line. Libs want open borders because they hate white America and want to see it destroyed, in some cases because they believe it will usher in some sort of one-world utopia (the Utopianists), or because of primary racism (mainly the ethnic, religious, and sexual minority members of this coalition, though Hard Utopianists like Michael Moore also deserve to be put in this catagory), or simply for self-advancement (the collaborators. Many journalists and professors are in this category), or some combination of all three. "Conservative" politicians and pundits understand how the system works, how controlled it really is, and who controls it. Those with principles find it virtually impossible to get elected or get a job in the media if they oppose any of the really sacred doctrines of the Media Mullahs, the ones that are left tend to be, ahem, flexible. Since they can't really change things so why destroy their careers tilting at windmills? George W. Bush doesn't care whether erasing the borders is good for America, he only cares if it is good for his re-election effort. He hopes it will win him Hispanic votes, and more importantly, though never stated, it will keep leftist media and academia from branding him a RACIST. The latter is the real reason "conservatives" and Republicans have embraced immigration over the last few decades, NOT because of economics but to appease the political power structure. The ultimate reason is the growing irrelevance of democracy in the face of the technology of modern mass-communication and its concentration in the hands of a smaller and smaller group of people.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Of course once the southwest goes, there won't be much to stop the northwest and southeast.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Because by 1969, at the latest, the liberalism that controls America (by controlling its media and schools) had degenerated into an anti-white, genocidal, racist movement.

You forgot to add 'male-bashing sexism'. Other than that, you made a good statement. Also this is one of the main reasons why I doubt I live to see 40.