March 30, 2018
America Not to Blame for Mexico's Problems
Regarding the current border crisis and problems in Mexico, if you ask many Latinos who come over to the U.S., and those who advocate on their behalf, they will tell you with a straight face that their country was ruined by the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, and that it was American Imperialism that destroyed Mexico and its economy. While we know that this is an excuse, the fact is, they believe the propaganda and both Mexicans and now Americans are now taught this propaganda. But facts are stubborn things, and history is on our side. These lies are being taught in our universities and we need to combat them with the truth. While the truth is not pretty, it justifies the Polk Adminstration in going to war with Mexico in 1846.
When Mexico received its independence from Spain in 1821, they planned on having a nation very similar to the U.S., with a system of independent semiautonomous states similar (if not quite the same) to what the United States originally were. The northernmost state of Tejas, was underpopulated, and by decree, the Mexican government made it open to anyone from the USA wanting to settle there. Cheap land doesn't grow on trees, so Americans came there by the thousands. It worked very well, probably too well, and in the mid-1830s the Mexican government set aside this decree and called the northern border of Tejas secure – making it a crime for Americans to settle there. But by that time, it was too late, and more and more white Americans were coming to what is now the United State of Texas.
In the early 1830s, a military despot named Santa Anna came to power, and shortly afterwards, abandoned the Mexican state system, concentrating most of the power into the capital city. Several of the Mexican states, including Yucatan and Tejas, rebelled against this naked power grab. Only the Mexican state of Tejas was successful, and after the battle of San Jacinto, won its independence from Mexico and became the Republic of Texas.
Santa Anna signed the Treaty of Velasco giving Texas its independence, and was then tossed from power for the first of several times. A series of military dictatorships were in power from the 1830s through 1850, virtually a new one every two years. But for a brief time in 1845-1846, Mexico had civil rule. It was during this time that the U.S. allowed Texas to join as a new state, something that the Mexican army saw as an act of war.
Then President James Polk sent Louisiana congressman John Slidell to see the Mexican president with an offer to purchase Alta California and New Mexico (the present-day states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and part of Colorado), similar to what Jefferson did with Napoleon and the Louisiana Purchase. Mexican President Joachin de Herrera, a pragmatist who was not opposed to at least talking to the Americans, was denounced as a traitor by the supporters of Santa Anna, and was forced by the Mexican Parliament to go to war -- something Herrera knew would end up with a Mexican defeat.
Herrera knew that Mexico was too poor to either inhabit or defend the northern states and preferred to take the pragmatic step of getting money for land that Mexico had no use for at the time, a very prudent step diplomatically, but one which was very unpopular politically. If the U.S. had not wanted California, our rival at the time Great Britain surely did, to stop Americans from populating the Western U.S. and giving them a warm-water port on the west coast. There was no way that Mexico could hold onto Alta California or New Mexico. But the idea of receiving millions of dollars for land they could not possibly protect or inhabit may have sounded good to de Herrera. The nation was in near bankruptcy after gaining its independence, and the idea of $30 million coming in (much more than Jefferson paid for the Louisiana territory) would have helped set Mexico back into financial stability.
But the friends of Santa Anna (at that time in exile in Cuba) labeled anyone who would consider negotiating with the Americans a traitor, so de Herrera was overthrown and a more nationalistic government under General Mariano y Arrillaga came into power. The Mexican army then shot at U.S. troops on U.S. territory (something the Mexicans dispute, since they had decided not to honor the Treaty of Velasco) and the war came. And while I will grant that Polk handled the negotiations in an oafish way (sending the U.S. military to feign an invasion in a bizarre attempt to force the Mexicans to the bargaining table), the fact remains that the Mexican military wanted this war and never would have allowed President de Herrera to sell a sliver of Mexican territory even if Mexico was to go bankrupt without that cash.
The end result was predictable. Santa Anna returned to power by lying to both the Americans and to the Mexican people and led the Mexican army to a glorious defeat and was overthrown yet again. The Mexican people were completely humiliated by allowing themselves to be goaded into a military showdown they had no chance of winning. Santa Anna showed that he was one of the most incapable battle commanders in human history (Google the Mexican battle plan at either Cerro Gordo or Buena Vista), and gave U.S. soldiers practical battle experience for our next war, the American Civil War. We Americans like to think that we only go to war for noble causes (such as the Revolution, the Civil War, or WWII) and the reasons for going to war with Mexico don't always jibe with our view of ourselves. But what if Great Britain had taken over California? The U.S. would have been under constant worry of invasion. Or what if the Russians had taken California? Where would the U.S. be then? We'd have Vladimir Putin in our backyard. Perhaps the Mexican War was not a "noble cause" but the alternatives were too ghastly to consider. At least President Polk offered the Mexicans a hefty sum for what the U.S. needed to secure its western border, something that neither Great Britain nor Russia would have given the Mexicans. Polk went to war in the name of reality, not in the name of conquest.
Current illegal immigrant sympathizers like to call the American settlers in Tejas "illegal immigrants" but this is a fallacy. The Mexican government originally invited American settlers into Texas and then tried to ban further immigration in the early 1830s (The Mexican government was afraid of too many white people in Mexican territory). Santa Anna tore up the constitution of 1821 and took away rights that both Americans and Mexicans had gotten used to, and somehow White Anglo-Saxon Protestants became illegal immigrants. The Mexicans provoked the next confrontation by reneging on the Treaty of Velasco and then opening fire on U.S. troops on U.S. soil. The Americans tried to figure out a way for both nations to live together peacefully and offered the Mexicans a large windfall for land that was of no use to Mexico. A Mexican president tried to negotiate and was tossed from office, and somehow the U.S. is a bad actor.
Mexico may be in trouble, but it was a failed state long before the loss of Texas and the Mexican-American war. As in the early 1800, Mexico remains a failed state because it does not have any tradition of democracy or republican rule, and because it has been ruled by despots throughout its history. When they actually get a man who can see the big picture (i.e. de Herrera) they call him a traitor, boot him from office, and then go to war, only to have a piece of their anatomy handed to them, and then blame others for their own stupidity. Mexican "historians" such as Jesus Velasco Marquez have done their countrymen no favors by perpetuating these lies (see the 52-minute mark.)
Drawing lessons from our own mistakes is one of the hardest things to learn. This is something that Mexican sympathizers can't seem to do. The U.S. and a war as far back as the 1840s are not to blame for Mexico's problems. Mexico, and Mexico alone, is to blame. And the sooner that the Mexican people learn this, the sooner the intelligentsia of both countries stops enabling Mexican pathologies the sooner Mexico will start to improve as a nation and cease being a failed state. But that would require growing up as a nation, something that many in academia do not want anyone to do.
John Massoud is the head of the Shenandoah County Virginia GOP Freedom Caucus, a Magisterial District GOP chair in Shenandoah County, and an occasional contributor to the American Thinker.
CUT
LA RAZA’S WELFARE AND FIND THE FUNDS TO BUILD THE WALL AGAINST THE LA RAZA
HEROIN CARTELS! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monica-showalter-cut-billions-in.html
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza
Welfare State of California
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR
WHAT DOES MEXICO DO FOR THEIR POOR? THEY EXPORT THEM ALONG
WITH THEIR CRIMINAL CLASS TO LOOT AMERICA, AND LOOT THEY DO!
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT TO
AMERICA… POVERTY, CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR WELFARE and HEROIN
Mexico prefers to export
its poor, not uplift them
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
THE GRUESOME VIOLENCE OF THE MEXICAN…
over, under and in our open borders.
In Mexico’s second largest city of Los Angeles, 93% of the murders are by
Mexicans.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/california-under-la-raza-mexican.htm
"The
state of California and the sanctuary city laws that make it a safe-haven for
criminal illegal aliens is likely responsible for at least 5,000 crimes that
were committed by criminal illegal aliens released by local authorities rather
than being handed over to federal immigration officials."
THE
LA RAZA INVASION:
The Washington-imposed economic policy of
economic growth via mass-immigration floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions. NEIL
MUNRO
MEChA Supports
"Reconquering" California For Mexico And "Urges All Latinos To
Resist Assimilation With White Americans"
"Xavier Becerra As Fox News
pointed out in a 2003 interview on
the Sean Hannitty Show, Becerra has a devout relationship with MEChA,
as well as The Fabian Society. But don’t go looking for the
clip; it is apparent Becerra’s people have been busy at work cleaning
up his online reputation and record." Katy Grimes and Megan Barth
Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
ZOGBY INTERNATIONAL POLL - 2002 MAJORITY OF MEXICAN POPULATION BELIEVES THE SOUTHWEST TERRITORY OF THE U.S. RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO MEXICO! Americans and Mexicans have widely divergent views of border issues, according to a new poll by Zogby International.
Zogby found that a large majority of the Mexican population believes the southwest territory of the U.S. rightfully belongs to Mexico, and that Mexicans should have the right to enter the U.S. without first obtaining U.S. permission. By contrast, Zogby's survey of Americans conducted within a few days of the Mexican poll shows a large majority supports reducing immigration levels and wants the military deployed along the border to protect the U.S. from illegal immigration. Zogby's poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "the territory of the United States' Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Only 28 percent disagree, and 14 percent are unsure. A similar majority, 57 percent, agree with the statement, "Mexicans should have the right to enter the U.S. without U.S. permission," while 35 percent disagree. Seven percent are unsure. The survey has a margin of error of 3.5 percent. The Mexico portion of the survey was conducted in Spanish between May 25 and May 26 among 801 adults chosen at random throughout Mexico. The poll was commissioned by Americans for Immigration Control, Inc. (AIC), which advocates increased restrictions on immigration. "There is obviously a large and significant gap between the attitudes of Americans and Mexicans," said Robert Goldsborough, AIC president. "While most Americans want immigration reduced, most Mexicans think they don't even need permission to enter our country. The poll clearly shows there is less common ground for immigration negotiations between Mexico and the U.S. than the leaders think. Support for a porous border and a loose migration policy occurs only on the Mexican side, not in the U.S." Zogby's survey of American attitudes found wide majorities of Americans also oppose amnesty for illegal aliens. The U.S. portion of the survey was conducted of 1,015 likely voters in the U.S. from May 28 to May 30. It found that 65 percent disagree with the statement, "foreigners residing illegally in the U.S. should be given amnesty." Just 26 percent of likely voters support amnesty for illegals, while 9 percent are unsure. A large majority, 58 percent, agree that the U.S. should "admit fewer immigrants each year." Only 6 percent want "more immigrants each year," and 30 percent want to "keep immigration at the current annual levels." The single largest majority in the entire poll was found among Americans supporting use of the military to guard the border. Fully 68 percent of those surveyed agree with the statement, "the U.S. should deploy military troops on the border as a temporary measure to help the U.S. Border Patrol curb illegal immigration." Only 28 percent disagree, and 3 percent are unsure.
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“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation
"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."
388 SHERIFFS FROM 40
STATES SAY BUILD THE FREAKING WALL!!!
Mexico says we will simply
tunnel under it and our LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY will buy the shovels for us to
do it!
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Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson state in an open letter, issued
on March 21, makes clear that the responsibility for the continued carnage of
innocent Americans caused by those who shouldn’t be present in the country in
the first place lies firmly in the lap of Congress. “Because Congress has
failed to enact the necessary reforms, our citizens and legal residents face
even greater dangers, our national security is more vulnerable, and our
enforcement efforts have been seriously compromised”
CUT
LA RAZA’S WELFARE AND FIND THE FUNDS TO BUILD THE WALL AGAINST THE LA RAZA
HEROIN CARTELS! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monica-showalter-cut-billions-in.html
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza
Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his
state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are
coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over
2.6 million. The Federation for American
Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government
services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and
criminal justice system costs.
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR
WHAT DOES MEXICO DO FOR THEIR POOR? THEY EXPORT THEM ALONG
WITH THEIR CRIMINAL CLASS TO LOOT AMERICA, AND LOOT THEY DO!
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT TO
AMERICA… POVERTY, CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR WELFARE and HEROIN
Mexico prefers to export
its poor, not uplift them
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
THE GRUESOME VIOLENCE OF THE MEXICAN…
over, under and in our open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/san-antonio-texas-staggering-violence.html
MEXIFORNIA under LA RAZA SUPREMACY RULE: CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. Half the inmates are Mexicans. Half the murders in CA are by Mexican gangs.
In Mexico’s second largest city of Los Angeles, 93% of the murders are by
Mexicans.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/california-under-la-raza-mexican.htm
"The
state of California and the sanctuary city laws that make it a safe-haven for
criminal illegal aliens is likely responsible for at least 5,000 crimes that
were committed by criminal illegal aliens released by local authorities rather
than being handed over to federal immigration officials."
THE
LA RAZA INVASION:
The Washington-imposed economic policy of
economic growth via mass-immigration floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions. NEIL
MUNRO
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS
NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.
Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the
downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are
increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and
other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million
was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million
stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million
in duffel bags.
"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering
with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many
businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge
of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG
CARTELS
LOS ANGELES TOP 200 LA RAZA CRIMINALS… they’re all registered dems and
getting anchor baby breeders’ welfare!
206 Most wanted criminals in Los Angeles. Out of 206 criminals--183 are
hispanic---171 of those are wanted for Murder.
Why do
Americans still protect the illegals??
BECERRA AGAIN GIVES
THE MIDDLE FINGER TO LEGALS!
The laws don’t apply
to Mexicans in Mexifornia!
LA RAZA FASCIST A.G.
of MEXIFORNIA TELLS MEXICANS “DON’T BE COUNTED IN CENSUS! WE DON’T WANT THE
STUPID GRINGOS TO KNOW HOW GREAT THE OCCUPATION IS!”
Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor
predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the
Southwest and several northern states of Mexico. Charles Truxillo suggests the
“Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.” He
envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and
southern Colorado.
JERRY BROWN, KAMALA HARRIS AND LA RAZA M.E.Ch.A. SEPARATIST XAVIER
BECERRA
THE BUILDING OF THE LA
RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE…. CALIFORNIA SURRENDERS TO MEXICO
JERRY BROWN, KAMALA HARRIS AND LA RAZA M.E.Ch.A. SEPARATIST XAVIER
BECERRA
XAVIER BECERRA IS
A LA RAZA “The Race” SUPREMACIST FASCIST AND MEMBER OF THE MEX SEPARTIST
MOVEMENT OF M.E.Ch.A.
MEChA Supports
"Reconquering" California For Mexico And "Urges All Latinos To
Resist Assimilation With White Americans"
"Xavier Becerra As Fox News
pointed out in a 2003 interview on
the Sean Hannitty Show, Becerra has a devout relationship with MEChA,
as well as The Fabian Society. But don’t go looking for the
clip; it is apparent Becerra’s people have been busy at work cleaning
up his online reputation and record." Katy Grimes and Megan Barth
“Many
wonder why Xavier Becerra was chosen by Brown. But all anyone has to do is
peek into the radical California Legislature, and fanatical Gov.
Jerry Brown, to see the trend of militant Marxist, Socialist, Jesuit,
Liberation Theology, Latino activism on the increase.”
"If the racist
"Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no
doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually
labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant
Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political
party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The
next and final
steps would follow and
that is to elect our own governors of all the
states within Aztlan."
"The American Southwest
seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a
single shot." --- Excelsior, the
national newspaper of Mexico
LA RAZA AGENDA: 3 ExamplesRichard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
ZOGBY INTERNATIONAL POLL - 2002 MAJORITY OF MEXICAN POPULATION BELIEVES THE SOUTHWEST TERRITORY OF THE U.S. RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO MEXICO! Americans and Mexicans have widely divergent views of border issues, according to a new poll by Zogby International.
Zogby found that a large majority of the Mexican population believes the southwest territory of the U.S. rightfully belongs to Mexico, and that Mexicans should have the right to enter the U.S. without first obtaining U.S. permission. By contrast, Zogby's survey of Americans conducted within a few days of the Mexican poll shows a large majority supports reducing immigration levels and wants the military deployed along the border to protect the U.S. from illegal immigration. Zogby's poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "the territory of the United States' Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Only 28 percent disagree, and 14 percent are unsure. A similar majority, 57 percent, agree with the statement, "Mexicans should have the right to enter the U.S. without U.S. permission," while 35 percent disagree. Seven percent are unsure. The survey has a margin of error of 3.5 percent. The Mexico portion of the survey was conducted in Spanish between May 25 and May 26 among 801 adults chosen at random throughout Mexico. The poll was commissioned by Americans for Immigration Control, Inc. (AIC), which advocates increased restrictions on immigration. "There is obviously a large and significant gap between the attitudes of Americans and Mexicans," said Robert Goldsborough, AIC president. "While most Americans want immigration reduced, most Mexicans think they don't even need permission to enter our country. The poll clearly shows there is less common ground for immigration negotiations between Mexico and the U.S. than the leaders think. Support for a porous border and a loose migration policy occurs only on the Mexican side, not in the U.S." Zogby's survey of American attitudes found wide majorities of Americans also oppose amnesty for illegal aliens. The U.S. portion of the survey was conducted of 1,015 likely voters in the U.S. from May 28 to May 30. It found that 65 percent disagree with the statement, "foreigners residing illegally in the U.S. should be given amnesty." Just 26 percent of likely voters support amnesty for illegals, while 9 percent are unsure. A large majority, 58 percent, agree that the U.S. should "admit fewer immigrants each year." Only 6 percent want "more immigrants each year," and 30 percent want to "keep immigration at the current annual levels." The single largest majority in the entire poll was found among Americans supporting use of the military to guard the border. Fully 68 percent of those surveyed agree with the statement, "the U.S. should deploy military troops on the border as a temporary measure to help the U.S. Border Patrol curb illegal immigration." Only 28 percent disagree, and 3 percent are unsure.
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“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation
"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."
“The radicals seek nothing less than
secession from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or
to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are
irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the
American Southwest.” Maria Hsia Chang
Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
FORMER MAYOR
OF LOS ANGELES, AND NOW GUBENATORIAL CANDIDATE ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA IS A MEMBER
OF THE FASCIST SEPARATIST MOVEMENT OF M.E.Ch.A.
THE
AZTLAN INVASION & THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
“The
radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to
form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire
reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's
"lost" territories in the American Southwest.”
MULTICULTURALISM,
IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN
By Maria Hsia Chang Professor of
Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
One
of the standard arguments invoked by those in favor of massive immigration into
the United States is that our country is founded on immigrants who have always
been successfully assimilated into America's mainstream culture and society. As
one commentator put it, "Assimilation evokes the misty past of Ellis
Island, through which millions entered, eventually seeing their descendants
become as American as George Washington."1 Nothing more vividly testifies
against that romantic faith in America's ability to continuously assimilate new
members than the events of October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000
people marched beneath "a sea of Mexican flags" protesting Proposition
187, a referendum measure that would deny many state benefits to illegal
immigrants and their children. Two weeks later, more protestors marched down
the street, this time carrying an American flag upside down. Both protests point to a disturbing and rising phenomenon of Chicano
separatism in the United States — the product of a complex of forces, among
which are multiculturalism and a generous immigration policy combined with a
lax border control. The Problem Chicanos refer to "people of Mexican
descent in the United States" or "Mexican Americans in general." Today, there are reasons to believe
that Chicanos as a group are unlike previous immigrants in that they are more
likely to remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by choice or
circumstance — resulting in the formation of a separate quasi-nation within the
United States. More than that, there are Chicano political activists who intend
to marry cultural separateness with territorial and political
self-determination. The more moderate among them aspire to the cultural and
political autonomy of "home rule". The radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States
whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who
desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's
"lost" territories in the American Southwest.
Whatever
their goals, what animates all of them is the dream of Aztlan. According to
legend, Aztlan was the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs which they left in
journeying southward to found Tenochtitlan, the center of their new
civilization, which is today's Mexico City. Today, the "Nation of
Aztlan" refers to the American southwestern states of California, Arizona,
Texas, New Mexico, portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, which Chicano
nationalists claim were stolen by the United States and must be reconquered
(Reconquista) and reclaimed for Mexico. The myth of Aztlan was revived by
Chicano political activists in the 1960s as a central symbol of Chicano
nationalist ideology. In 1969, at the Chicano National Liberation Youth
Conference in Denver, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales put forth a political
document entitled El Plan de Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan). The Plan is a
clarion call to Mexican-Americans to form a separate Chicano nation: In the
spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historial
heritage, but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the nothern land of
Aztlan from whence came our forefathers ...declare that the call of our blood
is...our inevitable destiny.... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds,
water the fields, and gather the crops, and not to the foreign Europeans. We do
not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.... Brotherhood
unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come ....
With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the
independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze
culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers
in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we
are Aztlan.
How
Chicanos are Unlike Previous Immigrants Brent A. Nelson, writing in 1994,
observed that in the 1980s America's Southwest had begun to be transformed into
"a de facto nation" with its own culture, history, myth, geography,
religion, education, and language. Whatever evidence there is indicates that
Chicanos, as a group, are unlike previous waves of immigrants into the United
States. In the first place, many Chicanos do not consider themselves immigrants
at all because their people "have been here for 450 years" before the
English, French, or Dutch. Before California and the Southwest were seized by the
United States, they were the lands of Spain and Mexico. As late as 1780 the
Spanish crown laid claim to territories from Florida to California, and on the
far side of the Mississippi up to the Great Lakes and the Rockies. Mexico held
title to much of Spanish possessions in the United States until the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war in 1848. As a consequence,
Mexicans "never accepted the borders drawn up by the 1848 treaty."
That
history has created among Chicanos a feeling of resentment for being "a
conquered people," made part of the United States against their will and
by the force of arms. Their resentment is amply expressed by Voz Fronteriza, a
Chicano student publication, which referred to Border Patrol officers killed in
the line of duty as "pigs (migra)" trying to defend "the false
frontier."
Chicanos
are also distinct from other immigrant groups because of the geographic
proximity of their native country. Their physical proximity to Mexico gives
Chicanos "the option of life in both Americas, in two places and in two
cultures, something earlier immigrants never had." Geographic proximity
and ease of transportation are augmented by the media. Radio and television
keep the spoken language alive and current so that Spanish, unlike the native
languages of previous immigrants into the United States, "shows no sign of
fading."
A
result of all that is the failure by Chicanos to be fully assimilated into the
larger American society and culture. As Earl Shorris, author
of Latinos: A Biography of the People, observed: "Latinos have been more
resistant to the melting pot than any other group. Their entry en masse into
the United States will test the limits of the American experiment...." The continuous influx of Mexican
immigrants into the United States serve to continuously renew Chicano culture
so that their sense of separateness will probably continue "far into the
future...." There are other reasons for the failure of Chicano
assimilation. Historically, a powerful force for assimilation was upward social
mobility: Immigrants into the United States became assimilated as they rose in
educational achievement and income. But today's post-industrial American
economy, with its narrower paths to upward mobility, is making it more difficult
for certain groups to improve their socioeconomic circumstances. Unionized
factory jobs, which once provided a step up for the second generation of past
waves of immigrants, have been disappearing for decades. Instead of the
diamond-shaped economy of industrial America, the modern American economy is
shaped like an hourglass. There is a good number of jobs for unskilled people
at the bottom, a fair number of jobs for the highly educated at the top, but
comparatively few jobs for those in the middle without a college education or
special skills. To illustrate, a RAND Corporation study forecasts that 85
percent of California's new jobs will require post-secondary education. For a
variety of reasons, the nationwide high-school dropout rate for Hispanics (the
majority of whom are Chicano) is 30 percent — three times the rate for whites
and twice the rate for blacks. Paradoxically, the dropout rate for Hispanics
born in the United States is even higher than for young immigrants. Among
Chicanos, high-school dropout rates actually rise between the second and third
generations. Their low educational achievement accounts for why Chicanos as a
group are poor despite being hardworking. In 1996, for the first time, Hispanic
poverty rate began to exceed that of American blacks. In 1995, household income
rose for every ethnic group except Hispanics, for whom it dropped 5 percent.
Latinos now make up a quarter of the nation's poor people, and are more than
three times as likely to be impoverished than whites. This decline in income
has taken place despite high rates of labor-force participation by Latino men,
and despite an emerging Latino middle class. In California, where
Latinos now approach one-third of the population, their education levels are
far lower than those of other immigrants, and they earn about half of what
native-born Californians earn. This means that, for the first time in the history of
American immigration, hard work is not leading to economic advancement because
immigrants in service jobs face unrelenting labor-market pressure from more
recently arrived immigrants who are eager to work for less. The narrowing of
the pathways of upward mobility has implications for the children of recent
Mexican immigrants. Their ascent into the middle-class mainstream will likely
be blocked and they will join children of earlier black and Puerto Rican
migrants as part of an expanded multiethnic underclass. Whereas first
generation immigrants compare their circumstances to the Mexico that they left
— and thereby feel immeasurably better off — their children and grandchildren
will compare themelves to other U.S. groups. Given their lower educational
achievement and income, that comparison will only lead to feelings of relative
deprivation and resentment. They are unlikely to be content as maids,
gardeners, or fruit pickers. Many young Latinos in the second and third
generations see themselves as locked in irremediable conflict with white
society, and are quick to deride successful Chicano students as
"wannabes." For them, to study hard is to
"act white" and exhibit group disloyalty. That attitude is part of
the Chicano culture of resistance — a culture that actively resists
assimilation into mainstream America. That culture is created, reinforced, and maintained by
radical Chicano intellectuals, politicians, and the many Chicano Studies
programs in U.S. colleges and universities. As examples, according to its
editor, Elizabeth Martinez, the purpose of Five Hundred Years of Chicano
History, a book used in over 300 schools throughout the West, is to
"celebrate our resistance to being colonized and absorbed by racist empire
builders." The book calls the INS and the Border Patrol "the Gestapo
for Mexicans."
For
Rodolfo Acuna, author of Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation,
probably the most widely assigned text in U.S. Chicano Studies programs, the
Anglo-American invasion of Mexico was "as vicious as that of Hitler's
invasion of Poland and other Central European nations...." The book also
includes a map showing "the Mexican republic" in 1822 reaching up
into Kansas and Oklahoma, and including within it Utah, Nevada, and everything
west and south of there
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant.
This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to
Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a
LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama,
when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
"Today we march, tomorrow we vote!" the
next day gringos..... (will wave the Mexican flag - MEX INVASION)
Mexican Invasion
By Tom Barrett (04/19/2005)
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through
Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be completely over run
with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants
who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop
the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant
population in the United States. According to US Border Control (see LINK
below). “They will have made such inroads into the political and social systems
that they will have more influence than our Constitution over how the U.S. is
governed. The ugly consequence of an ignored U.S. Constitution is already
taking place.” The millions upon millions of illegal aliens streaming into the
US are the foundation for what could be another attempt at secession by several
US states. Many of them will use ill-conceived programs that reward illegal
immigration to become US citizens. Other illegals will simply go to the polls
and vote without taking the trouble to apply for citizenship. Together, these
groups could form a voting block that could tear our nation apart. Those of you
who read the email version of this column should go to
www.ConservativeTruth.org to see the map posted there. It shows the borders of
a new nation proposed by influential Mexican nationals and Hispanic US
Citizens. (See LINK below: Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'.) It includes
six northern states of Mexican, as well as Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,
California, and southern Colorado. The idea of a Hispanic Homeland could be
ignored as the pipedream of crackpots if a substantial majority of Mexican
citizens did not support it. A Zogby poll of Mexicans done in June 2002
revealed that a substantial majority of Mexican citizens believe that
southwestern America properly belongs to Mexico. They said that Mexicans do not
need the permission of the U.S. to enter this territory. 58 percent of Mexican
citizens agreed with this statement: "The territory of the United States'
southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Only 28 percent disagreed with
the statement. Listen to what some Mexican government officials and US leaders
(including politicians and Professors at taxpayer-funded Universities) have to
say on this subject. Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas,
Arlington and founder of La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies:
"We have an aging white America. They are dying. They are ******** in
their pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what
I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill
him!" (See LINK below.) Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They’re
afraid we’re going to take over the governmental institutions and other
institutions. They’re right. We will take them over. Mario Obledo, California
State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, who was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton, says, “California is
going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn’t like it should leave."
Proposition 187 was the California initiative supported by a majority of
Californians that denied taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens. Speaking
at a Latino gathering in response to Proposition 187’s passage in 1995, Art
Torres, the Chairman of the California Democratic Party, said: "Power is
not given to you. You have to take it. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white
America in California." The national newspaper of Mexico, Excelsior:
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction
of Mexico without firing a single shot." Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County
Supervisor: "We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens
that are becoming citizens of this country...I gotta tell you that a lot of
people are saying, "I’m going to go out there and vote because I want to
pay them back." Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General: “We are
practicing ‘La Reconquista’ in California." "Reconquista" means
the reconquest of the US southwest by Mexico. (See LINK below.). These people
are serious! They think they are going to take US territory. The Mexican
President declared it here in our country, and Bill Clinton signed a
Presidential Executive Order that paves the way for at least part of Mexico’s
dream. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said in Chicago on July 23, 1997,
"I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the
territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important –
a very important – part of this. For this reason, my government proposed a
constitutional amendment to allow any Mexican with the right and the desire to
acquire another nationality to do so without being forced to first give up his
or her Mexican nationality." Translation: It is next to impossible to
receive Mexican citizenship unless you can prove you are of Mexican descent.
But Mexico knows that the US has soft immigration laws and will grant
citizenship to almost anyone. (After all, we grant citizenship every day to
immigrants from countries who have sworn to destroy us.) So Mexico wants to
take advantage of this ridiculous situation by encouraging their citizens to
apply for US citizenship while keeping Mexican citizenship. That way the
Mexican government can influence the political process here in the US.
Executive Order 13122, signed on May 25, 1999, by the most treasonous president
this nation has ever been cursed with, Bill Clinton, established an Interagency
Task Force on the Economic Development of the Southwest Border. Part of the
Order reads, "The Southwest Border or Southwest Border region is defined
as including the areas up to 150 miles north of the United States-Mexican border
in the States of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California." According to
experts on international law, this sets the stage for a 150-mile-wide “Border
Zone” that will neither belong to Mexico or the US. This could then become the
first area of a Hispanic Nation that would eventually encompass the areas shown
in the map of the proposed Republica del Norte (The Northern Republic). Our
government, pushed by liberal Democrats, has been systematically laying the
groundwork for such a breakaway republic. Did you know that immigrants from
Mexico and other non European countries can come to this country and get
preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts? It’s called
affirmative action or racial privilege. Some time ago a vote was taken in the
U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. Every single Democratic
senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for
Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen
Republicans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have repeatedly stated that they believe
that massive immigration from countries like Mexico is good. They have also
backed special privileges for these immigrants. Mexico, a nation that has
benefited enormously from American generosity is now working to destabilize our
country. Is “destabilize” too strong a word? I don’t think so. Whether or not
Mexican leaders think they can actually create enough hatred against “gringos”
to accomplish the creation of a new republic made up of mainly US territory,
they know that pushing that agenda will cause huge political problems here and
allow Mexico to accomplish many of their goals. Is the government of Mexico
behind this? You have seen quotes from a Mexican President and a Mexican Consul
General in support of it. They have everything to gain and little to lose by
pushing it. The Mexican government is also pushing illegal immigration, which
destabilizes our economy. The US Border Control website (see LINK below) shows
an illustration from a Mexican government publication showing their citizens
how to best illegally enter the US. Why? It takes the strain of taking care of
unemployed Mexicans off the Mexican treasury and puts it on the US treasury.
And when the illegals get on welfare, they send some of their money home, which
helps the Mexican economy. All this talk by Mexican and US officials about the
US illegally occupying Mexican territory does nothing but breed racial hatred.
The sad thing is that none of this is about race. It is about the things that
all wars and conflicts are about: Greed, power and money. I don’t like to talk
about a problem without offering a solution. The US politicians and professors
who advocate taking US territory are guilty of sedition. Remove them from their
offices and (hopefully) put them in a federal penitentiary where they can
consider the error of their ways. The Mexican politicians who do the same are
guilty of inciting sedition. This is very close to an act of war. Immediately
cut of all economic aid to Mexico until its government publicly disavows this
lunatic plan. Finally, we must realize that we can’t stop this by marching US
troops into Mexico. We should use troops to guard our borders, because the US
Border Patrol cannot cover the huge US-Mexico border without help. And we need
to use pass laws that will stop the government from rewarding illegal
immigrants at the expense of those who follow the law. We have a huge
immigration problem in this country. This ridiculous Hispanic Homeland idea is
just a symptom of the problem. INTERNET RESEARCH: Professor Predicts 'Hispanic
Homeland' 1. http://www.aztlan.net/homeland.htm Professor Predicts 'Hispanic
Homeland' ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies
professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking
in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico. Charles Truxillo
suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an
inevitability.” He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states:
Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. Along
both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border “there is a growing fusion, a reviving of
connections,” Truxillo said. “Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are
becoming one people again.” Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be
brought into being “by any means necessary,” but recently said it was unlikely
to be formed by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished by the
electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region, he
said.
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