Mexico Is No Friend to U.S.
By
Phil Kent
ost Americans
see first-hand the disastrous impact of illegal immigration
on our wallets, wages and culture. The annual entry of over
one million illegal aliens from around the world, over 30
percent of them Mexicans sneaking across our southern border,
obviously undercut homeland security efforts. Yet more Americans
must understand that Mexico's government, far from being
a friend, is actively working to subvert our country's laws
and political institutions.
Not
since the heyday of expansionist Soviet communism has there
been such an organized effort to undermine our nation.
If our borders are not controlled and immigration law enforced,
will we truly be a "United States" in another
10 years or a completely balkanized, multicultural society
with English downgraded as the common tongue?
The Mexican government promotes reconquista in the Southwest.
Isn't it obvious in many areas that Mexicans are pushing
out Americans, refusing to speak English and establishing
de facto Mexican enclaves?
A growing number of Mexicans despise their northern neighbor.
American soccer fans, to cite just one example, have repeatedly
witnessed the outrageous behavior of Mexican crowds during
the playing of The Star Spangled Banner, including cheers
of "Osama, Osama"- a reference to the murder of
3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.
The Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior ("Institute
of Mexicans Abroad") has no respect for the internal
affairs of our country. The Institute was created by decree
of Mexican President Vicente Fox and reports to a shadowy
clique within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its vast
computer database is used to deploy illegal and legal Mexicans
to lobby state legislatures, city councils and county commissions
to recognize worthless matricula consular "identification"
cards, support granting driver's licenses to illegals, promote
multilingualism at the expense of English and help Mexicans
and their children sponge off U.S. services ranging from
schools to medical care.
California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy remembers the floor
debate over a measure granting driver's licenses to illegal
immigrants. Referring to the former name of the territory
ceded to the U.S, by Mexico in 1848, Mountjoy warned, "This
bill paves the road to Aztlan." "Everyone in the
gallery stood up and applauded," Mountjoy recalls.
In Michigan, a Mexican consul repeatedly traveled to the
city of Holland to urge its city council to support police
and bank recognition of consulate-issued matricula consular
cards - often with "what can only be described as a
mob in tow," according to author Matt Hayes. Holland
finally demurred because the consul was so disruptive.
Former
Mexican consul Teodoro Maus, now a legal resident, is a
leading agitator in Georgia for granting services to any
immigrant "regardless of status." Such agitation,
often fostered from Mexico's 49 consulates, is repeated
in every other state.
In 2006, amid reports of border incursions by either Mexican
troops or rogue off-duty soldiers, the Mexican government
announced that its military forces were ordered not to go
within three kilometers of the border. Of course, that begs
the big question: Who's policing the border on the Mexican
side? Don't count on the local police departments of border
towns, because even Mexican officials admit they are riddled
with corruption.
Former Mexican Interior Secretary Santiago Creel actually
said his country would never help the secure the southern
border. "We are not going to do that," Creel told
Jerry Kammer of the Copley News Service. Creel claimed Mexico's
constitution provides for "complete freedom of movement"
for Mexicans inside Mexico. "We can't put up a checkpoint
or a customs station inside our territory," Creel said.
A Zogby International poll in 2003 found 57 percent of Mexicans
believe they have the right to enter the U.S. without permission.
And 58 percent said the southwestern states properly belong
to Mexico. In light of such sentiments, no wonder the Mexican
government printed and openly distributed a comic book-style
"guide" to "migrants" instructing them
where to cross the northern border, melt into U.S. society
and how to take advantage of medical, educational and other
services.
U.S.
Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., recently wrote a stinging letter
to Mexico's ambassador to the U.S. "I would remind
you," the lawmaker said in part,, "that our border
security plan is a direct result of the Mexican government's
failure to commit to securing its side of the border, and
is also a result of the Mexican government's failure to
address inadequacies in its own domestic and border security
policies."
Indeed,
the governors of Arizona and New Mexico declared states
of emergency in their border counties because of border
lawlessness.
Mexico
has an obligation to respect our laws, encourage its citizens
to do the same and commit to securing its side of the border.
Since it has not done so, isn't it time to downgrade diplomatic
relations by kicking Mexico's ambassador out of the United
States and recalling ours? It would be a timely wake-up
call to protest that country's insolent policies which are
so damaging to our nation and its border security.
Phil
Kent is an Atlanta-based author and president of the American
Research Foundation.
