Re: A Renewed Mexican-American War

From: paul (paul_eitchison_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: 17 Jan 2005 12:34:02 -0800

Payne N. Diaz wrote:
> A Renewed Mexican-American War
>
> By Alan Caruba
> MichNews.com
> Jan 13, 2005
>
> In 1821, at the invitation of Mexico, Stephen Austin established the
first
> American settlement in Texas (Tejas). The land was cheap, about ten
cents an
> acre, compared to $1.25 in other frontier areas. Americans flowed in
but
> they continued to speak English and avoided any assimilation into the

> Mexican culture.
>
> A mere fifteen years later in April 1836, following the fall of the
Alamo a
> month earlier, a Texas army at the Battle of San Jacinto defeated the

> Mexican army, thus ending a brief war. On October 22, Gen. Sam
Houston was
> sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas. A decade
later,
> after having lost Texas, the US negotiated a treaty that secured most
of the
> Southwest as well. That´s how we ended up with Nevada, Utah,
Colorado,
> Arizona, and New Mexico.
>
> Flash forward to 2004. Today in America, 58% of America´s Hispanic
> population are Mexican, surpassing African-Americans as the largest
> minority. Latinos make up 30% of California´s population and now
account for
> more than half of all the births in the Golden State. Do the math.
There are
> 37 million Hispanic Americans. As far as the Mexican government is
> concerned, their Mexican-Americans are Mexican-Mexicans. Like the
Americans
> that poured into Texas and refused to assimilate, the same holds true
for a
> large portion of the Mexican-American population, both legal and
illegal.
>
> This has major implications for American politics. It accounts in
large part
> for why Bush43 and his administration are eager to grant an amnesty
for the
> current and growing population of illegal aliens. His own brother,
Jeb, is
> Governor of Florida, speaks Spanish fluently, and is married to an
Hispanic.
>
> News that the Bush administration will propose "sweeping changes to
US
> immigration policy that would allow a portion of the eight million
illegal
> aliens in this country to move toward legal status without a penalty"

> ignores the fact that Mexico has set upon a plan to repopulate the
lands it
> lost to the US and to, in effect, alter the political structure of
America
> by flooding its citizens into the US while retaining their allegiance
to
> Mexico.
>
> To put it bluntly, Mexico has hit upon a plan to solve its own Third
World
> poverty by reacquiring the land Santa Ana gave away. The lines
between being
> a Mexican citizen and an American one are being deliberately blurred.
Don´t
> believe it? Manuel de la Cruz is the first US citizen ever to win a
seat in
> Mexico´s Congress. His platform was to make the United States into a
Mexican
> electoral district! Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, de la Cruz has been a
> longtime resident of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was one of six
> Mexican-Americans who ran for office in Mexico in the last elections
there!
>
> Little wonder the slogan of the Mexican Department of Tourism is
"Mexico:
> Closer Than Ever." If it was any closer, the minute you crossed the
> Mississippi, you´d be in Mexico!
>
> An expert on this, Allan Wall, noted in November 2003 that "Mexicans
who
> have become American citizens-by taking an oath to renounce all
allegiance
> to Mexico---may soon be able to regain their Mexican 'nationality´,
> according to recent Mexican federal legislation, now in the process
of being
> ratified by the states of Mexico." In 1997, Articles 30,32,and 37 of
the
> Mexican Constitution were amended to make dual nationality possible.
This
> will give any Mexican who wants it, to be a citizen of both nations.
>
> This is nothing less than a sneak attack on the sovereignty of the
United
> States of America.
>
> Mexico has lots of reasons for this, not the least of which is the
fact that
> the estimated $14.5 to $17 billion Mexicans send home represents the
> second-largest source of foreign income for Mexico after oil. Pundits
like
> Lowell Ponte who watch what the Mexicans are doing note that the
enormous
> cash Mexican immigrants to America, legal and illegal, send home
relieves
> much of the pressure on the Mexican government to fix that nation´s
economy.
> By encouraging immigration, noted Ponte, "if this pressure release
valve
> were closed, Mexico would explode into violent revolution within five

> years."
>
> Meanwhile, American taxpayers are forced to pick up the tab for the
millions
> of illegal Mexican and other immigrants in this nation. Ponte notes
that "by
> one estimate, the average illegal immigrant family in California
consumes
> about $7,000 more each year in government benefits than it pays in
taxes."
> When then-Governor of California, Pete Wilson, backed Proposition
187, that
> would have cut off taxpayer-funded programs and other benefits to
illegal
> immigrants, the measure passed overwhelmingly. It was, however,
struck down
> by a federal judge. When former-Governor Gray Davis attempted to give

> California to its illegal immigrant population, the voters tossed him
out
> and voted in Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger.
>
> It remains for Americans to avoid any cockamamie legislation that
would, one
> way or the other, grant citizenship to illegal Mexican and other
immigrants.
> US population, as of January 1, 2004, was 292,287,454. That´s an
increase of
> 2,816,586 from the year before and it does not take into account the
eight
> to twelve million illegals living among us and using our schools, our

> hospitals, our highways, and filling up our jails. Given the
birthrate of
> Mexicans in America, it would not take long for them to acquire so
much
> political power that it would alter our system dramatically. For too
many of
> them, their first allegiance would be to Mexico.
>
> This issue is NOT about being anti-Mexican. It´s about protecting
the
> longest border on the planet between a wealthy First World nation and
a very
> poor Third World one. That border, 1,951 miles long, is as porous as
Swiss
> cheese. And, beyond the Mexicans crossing it illegal, there´s the
threat of
> infiltration by Islamic Jihadists. On November 12, 2003, Imelda Ortiz

> Abdala, the former Mexican consul in Lebanon, was arrested in Mexico
on
> charges of helping a smuggling ring that specialized in moving Arab
> immigrants into the United States from Mexico. The terror war isn´t
just
> being fought in the Middle East, it is on our border and inside our
nation.
>
> The current US policy of tolerating large-scale illegal immigration
is not
> just wrong, it is putting this nation at risk from our sworn enemies
and
> from a nation, Mexico, bent on reclaiming its "lost" territories and,

> through sheer force of numbers, taking over this nation.
>
> President Bush is famous for having said, "You´re either with us or
you´re
> against us." Well, Mr. President, if you are looking for an enemy of
this
> nation, look south to Mexico.
>
> http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_6421.shtml

The President simply lacks the ability to think abstractly regarding
monumental issues concerning the future of America. He thinks that the
incidents of terrorism is the greatest evil to befall America. But if
he understood the implications of long-term third world immigration he
would be enforcing our border security.
Paul

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