Thread: An Immigrant speaks out

As an immigrant, I think the title of Darhiana Mateo's Oct. 17 article, "Locals rally for immigration reform," should be "Locals rally for open borders."

Americans concerned about racial harmony and our national unity should heed the following: last December, the Mexican government published a guide advising illegal Mexican nationals on how to cross the U.S. border safely. In 2001, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, then-border czar of Mexico, reportedly told would-be illegal Mexican migrants, "If the border patrol agent finds you, try again." In 1997, Ernest Zedillo, then-President of Mexico, said in Chicago, "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 it."

Mexico has been pushing for benefits and amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Those amnestied aliens, once naturalized, could vote in U.S. elections. Children born here of illegal aliens and guest workers are also U.S. citizens and future voters.

Also, in 1999, Norman Bernstein, principal of a school in San Fernando Valley, Calif., told the Los Angeles Times that he was beaten unconscious by two men, at least one of them a Latino. He said that those men said to him, "We don't want you here any more, principal. Do you understand that, white principal?" Recently, Latino students reportedly told Black American students in a Los Angeles high school to "go back to Africa." Is Mexico using migration to extend the Mexican nation?



Yeh Ling-Ling

Executive Director

Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America

http://www.dailyillini.com/media/paper7 ... 24051.shtm

http://www.diversityalliance.org/

Not quite what I'd expect from somebody who works in the name of diversity! I like it!

Hey folks, I just went to this site and highly recommend it. I think you'll all like it. Check it out!

http://www.diversityalliance.org/docs/a ... inter.html

Kind of long but pretty good.

Mexican Immigration and its Potential Impact on the Political Future of the United States

By Yeh Ling-Ling

Published in the Winter 2004 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Volume 29 Number 4

Synopsis

The following article reinforces the position of Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington, Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, who wrote in 2004 in "The Hispanic Challenge": ".... Mexican immigration differs from past immigration and most other contemporary immigration due to a combination of six factors: contiguity, scale, illegality, regional concentration [in the American Southwest], persistence, and historical presence .... Demographically, socially, and culturally, the reconquista (re-conquest) of the Southwest United States by Mexican immigrants is well underway.... No other immigrant group in U.S. history has asserted or could assert a historical claim to U.S. territory. Mexicans and Mexican Americans can and do make that claim...."

The article describes the strategy and tactics the Mexican government is using -- in concert with political activists of Mexican descent in the United States, ranging from high-level elected officials to scholars, organization leaders, and students, as well as immigration lobbies -- to influence the American political process and policies. The crucial issues involved include the viability of our border.

Extensive quotes, provided to illuminate the serious problem, are cited from a broad spectrum of individuals here and in Mexico, all of Mexican descent: the political elite in Mexico, such as former and current presidents of Mexico, the former head of Mexico's National Security Council and personal strategist to President Vicente Fox, former and current Mexican officials in charge of border issues, former and current speakers of the California State Assembly, U.S. Congressmen, numerous scholars, and organization leaders. Lobbying activities by Mexican government officials and their Mexican American allies as well as data from the U.S. Census Bureau pertaining to the explosive Mexican population increase in this country are also considered.

The author hopes to encourage public debate and stimulate a more cogent evaluation of the potential long-term political and other consequences of rapidly growing, large-scale Mexican immigration and yet another amnesty for those who have come into the United States illegally.

The $70 billion a year cost for illegal immigration is just the tip of the iceberg.