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A Renewed Mexican-American War
By Alan Caruba © 2004
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, the US negotiated a treaty with Mexico 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 illegally,
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.

Alan Caruba writes weekly commentaries posted on
www.anxietycenter.com, the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center.
He is the author of "Warning Signs."

© Alan Caruba 2004





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Alan Caruba is the author of a new book, "Warning Signs", and a
commentator whose weekly column is posted on the Internet site of The
National Anxiety Center.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2003