Thread: La Immigracion, Si Americanizacion, No

How illegal immigration can pose a threat to American culture...

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La Immigracion, Si. Americanizacion, No.
By David Romero
Nov 29, 2006


Will America remain American – with roots, culture, and language reaching back to Anglo Saxon Europe -- when millions of legal Mexican Americans and illegal Mexican immigrants want to be and remain Mexican? With midterm elections now over, this question will more than likely continue to escape America's attention as the nation's ruling elite simply pick up where they left off on illegal immigration. In other words, the sterile debates will continue unabated on border enforcement, amnesty, guest worker proposals, and so on.

But the question or its variant will be scrupulously avoided, since the raising of it would entail breaking a taboo of the new politics of silence as touching race and culture and thereby risk arousing the indignation of the public arbiters of what is acceptable political speech. Yet, race and culture has everything to do with the unity and character of a nation. America is great in many things, but its continued greatness depends on its citizens being Americans undivided in their allegiance to America. A unity of the many (plures) into one. To avoid the question on race and culture then would be to avoid the threat to America's national existence posed by the Open Society multiculturalists.

Even more troubling are the manifest circumstances which pointedly indicate that many Mexican Americans at worst support not unity but separatism or irredentism in the "silent reconquista" of America, or at least have divided loyalties decidedly more Mexican than American. In either case, assuming national existence still matters to America's ruling elite, and that is a suspect assumption, Mexicans en masse are among the worst possible candidates for American citizenship. Open borders advocates and adherents of the melting pot myth may denounce this as racist or at odds with America as a nation of immigrants, but its truth is discovered with but a few facts.

What was characteristic of immigrants and America since its founding no longer holds today. In the history of US immigration prior to the immigration reform act of 1965, most immigrants lived and breathed a desire to be American and to live as Americans. They wanted to speak like Americans, celebrate holidays like Americans, and to love America like Americans. What we see with the Mexican inflow, a phenomenon begun in 1965 when a selective immigration policy was undone by an ill-conceived immigration reform, is a dramatically changed and adversely affected national profile.

First the naked demographics. By years' end 2004, 40.4 million Hispanics, predominantly Mexican, amounted to 14 percent of the total US population. As such, Mexicans now constitute the largest minority group in America. If present trends in fertility rates and chain migration hold, Mexicans will be the dominant majority displacing by mid-century America's Anglo European culture. (See, e.g., here.)

Mexico is a failed country radically different from the United States. At a bare minimum, it harbors a deep resentment toward the West, preeminently America. But this resentment is overcome by the sheer power of living in a real nation with real economic opportunities. In fact, 40% of all Mexicans would, if they could, migrate legally or illegally to the US. It would be naive to assume, therefore, that Mexicans who find their way to our side of the Rio Grande will necessarily be the "good ones" ready to live productively within the structure of America's civic institutions. Some will to be sure, but their contributions will be minuscule by comparison to those who will not. The reason for this of course can be traced to an old proverb about one bad apple spoiling the lot. How many American citizens should be sacrificed to the wanton violence and crime of the drug cartel soldiers who do the bidding of their bosses south of the border? How many areas in American border cities will remain off-limits to Gringos? Look at the crime statistics in the border states and tell those American citizens suffering from violent crime that their government has enacted sound and responsible immigration policies.

Equally naive, if not just illogical, would be to assume that many Mexicans will not be motivated by a Mexican Fifth Column out to remake America. Radically pro-Mexican racist groups may not be a majority, but they are a sizeable and vocal minority that should not be casually dismissed. Revanchist claims that America's Southwest will become a Mexican northern domain is as demographically possible as it is politically irresistible to Mexico and large numbers of Mexican Americans. The latter, under the aegis of Mexico, need not redraw the map of America, but simply demand the recognition of a "distinct" culture and its language. In other words, just use the Elite's multiculturalism to undo the American claim to this area.

Evidence of this Fifth Column abounds. A 2002 Zogby poll revealed that 58% of Mexican nationals believe the American Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico, while 57% felt they had the right to cross America's borders at will. It is unprecedented in America's history to be overwhelmed by millions of illegal aliens invading the US who, at the same time, claim they are the rightful owners of a land once theirs and are simply coming home to it, rather than arriving as strangers in a new land and having to integrate or gain acceptance.

Evidence of this Fifth Column abounds. A 2002 Zogby poll revealed that 58% of Mexican nationals believe the American Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico, while 57% felt they had the right to cross America's borders at will. It is unprecedented in America's history to be overwhelmed by millions of illegal aliens invading the US who, at the same time, claim they are the rightful owners of a land once theirs and are simply coming home to it, rather than arriving as strangers in a new land and having to integrate or gain acceptance.

It's good that this was a Zogby poll since so many of the media and elected officials tout it as one of the better polsters.

Either they must change their minds concerning Zobby's reputation or they will have to admit the truth.

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