Thread: Here in Aztlan, it's the people that make the difference

Here in Aztlan, it's the people that make the difference
By Lionel Waxman, Inside Tucson Business
Published on Monday, July 06, 2009

If you had asked me 10 or 15 years ago about Aztlán and reconquista, I would have dismissed the notion as fanciful. But today, it must be taken seriously. While we have been busy with other things, Mexico has been promoting an invasion of the Southwestern United States. They come individually or as families. They come every possible way, but they come, by the thousands.

Anglos here call them illegal aliens. They consider themselves immigrants. They tell themselves they own this land and so do not need permission to enter it. Of course the United States denies this. We rely on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase which together settled the boundary between the United States and Mexico. But Mexicans were never satisfied with that. No one ever is satisfied by boundary revisions occasioned by war. The Russians want Alaska but the U.S. has no plans to give that back, either. The causes and conduct of the Mexican-American War are well documented and do not bear repetition here.

Recently Mexicans have been making a more concerted effort to recover the lands in question. They are doing this by entering the United States, often surreptitiously and without documentation. They usually come because they believe they can earn a better life here and remit some of their earnings to their families come because they believe they can earn a better life here and remit some of their earnings to their families in Mexico. Some are not so beneficent. Some join gangs and engage in criminal activities.


Organizations have given them a cause beyond themselves in reconquista. They rationalize that they are entitled to this land and they come to take it back. Obviously, this war will not be fought militarily. It is a contest of will, and, as usual of late, the United States is found wanting.


Politicians who do not live on or near the border appear not to take the threat very seriously. They make half-hearted attempts to enforce the border, but it’s well-known that it is extremely porous. So they come, overwhelming social supports and requiring service we had reserved for our poor.

They see the standard of living in the U.S. and they aspire to it. But they prefer not to spend the generations it takes to achieve it. They think by recovering the land of the rich, they will, miraculously become rich, too. But this is a mistake.

The land in the U.S. Southwest is not appreciably different than the land in Mexico, if anything, it is less fertile. What makes land under the U.S. flag worth so much more than the land under the Mexican flag cannot be duplicated without adopting the American way of life.

Look at aerial photos of border cities and you will see the Mexican side built-up right to the international boundary. On the U.S. side, border cities are smaller and much of the land is sparsely settled with cattle ranches and desert preserves. There is no benefit for Americans to build right up to the border.

The very things that make America wealthy, are the very things they will not have in Aztlán. They include the United States’ Constitution, our country’s history of living under English Common Law, the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, the concept of individual sovereignty, the presumption of innocence, the rule of law, the dignity of the individual. These concepts simply do not exist under Mexican law which is based on Continental Code law.

Mexicans cannot and will not re-create the conditions here that have guaranteed our freedom and allow us to be as productive as we can be.

You can’t fully appreciate the traditions of the United States that have allowed us to create the most extraordinary country ever. It’s not the land. Land is land. You can grow lettuce almost anywhere. But to live free to be your own person, to pursue your best efforts without government interference – well, that is the foundation of America. And even though we have strayed far from that ideal. It remains the foundation of our republic.

To fully appreciate it, it helps to have lived here all your life and been educated here. That’s why no matter who owns the land, no Mexican, no Kenyan, will ever be able to fully appreciate our way of life or reproduce it under a different flag.

If the Mexican people want to participate in the American dream, they must become Americans: learn the language, learn the way of life, learn the traditions. Become an American. It’s not the land, it’s the people. The promise of Aztlán is a hollow one. They will not reproduce American prosperity in the reconquista, they will only extend Mexican poverty to it.

Contact Lionel Waxman at territorial@waxmanmedia.com or visit his website: www.newflashpoint.com.

Great Post!!!

Lol when will these reconquista nut cases realise that they are NEVER going to get that land back? Even if they did, it'd become a failed region just like the majority of Mexico, then when the reconquista nutcases realize that, they'd try to flood into parts of the U.S that were never part of Mexico and try to spread the same lies about the land belonging to them. Even though Russia wants Alaska, we arent dealing with 20 million illegal russians here, demanding communist rights in the state of Alaska. L.A is a 3rd world city now, most Mexicans say that living in L.A is just like living in Mexico but with more benefits. Atlzan is nothing more then a racial lie made up by desperate Mexican's who just want to play the blame game and beleive that America is the fault for Mexico being such a craphole but they need a REALITY check.

If the invasion is not stopped, any city in America will be just like Mexico City. God Please help us!

This is a good article, but I'm sorry, I get really frustrated sometimes.

I just wish I understood why it took so many people so long to see this invasion. It has been happening for 25+ years now, it started before the first amnesty in 1986.

I understand if someone is young, and was indoctrinated in our public schools with a bunch of PC crap from a young age, and has just recently become more aware of the political and social reality around them. But for adults who weren't born yesterday, I know its better late than never, I just hope to God its not too late to change this now.

Edit:I don't mean to sound accusatory to someone who has just recently awakened to the illegal invasion. It is better late than never. I just honestly don't get how anyone missed it for so long.

But I admit, there are other issues which I only recently started to fully understand and feel strongly about. One of those is the right to bear arms. I never truly appreciated the importance of this right to our freedom from tyranny until the past year. I had a sudden awakening. Guess some might think that was naiive or ignorant of me.

If the Mexican people want to participate in the American dream, they must become Americans: learn the language, learn the way of life, learn the traditions.

This is the only part I disagree with the author about, that last paragraph (unless I'm misinterpreting it). I say "if the Mexican people want to participate in the American dream", they need to return home to Mexico, apply for legal residency FROM Mexico, fill out all the paperwork, provide all the documentation, pay all the fees, go to the back of the line, wait your turn like all LEGAL immigrants do, which might mean years.

And in order to have TRUE diversity which the Progressives and liberals claim to love, then we should allow a maximum number of immigrants from any one country. We should allow immigrants from ALL countries, ALL ethnicities, ALL races, even including some white Europeans - gasp! Which would mean if we allow 1,000 per year, there will NOT be 80% from Mexico nor even 80% Hispanic.

Aztlan is a myth!