VDARE.com: 04/27/10 – Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico): Mexican Mewling, Hispanic Hysteria-American Patriots Must Arizona’s SB 1070!
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April 27, 2010
Mexican Mewling, Hispanic Hysteria—American Patriots Must
Support Arizona’s SB 1070!
[See also
How
Mexico Treats Illegal Aliens, by Michelle
Malkin]
According to a
Rasmussen Reports
telephone survey
“70% of likely
voters in Arizona approve of [SB
1070], while
just 23% oppose it.”
The essence of SB
1070 is
revolutionary because it’s so simple—let Arizona’s
police enforce the law, which the federal government
has manifestly failed to do. As law professor
Kris Kobach,
who helped draft the legislation
points out, SB 1070 only prohibits actions that,
under federal law, are already illegal.
So what’s all the
fuss?
But Mexico’s
leaders have gone berserk, throwing a hissy-fit of
massive proportions. Various Mexican political factions
usually at loggerheads are now united in the lowest
common denominator of Mexican politics—to keep the U.S.
border open. (Though, as always, opposition politicians
still fault the government of Mexico for not
meddling more
in U.S. internal affairs!)
And, ominously,
they’re being joined by all the
Hispanic organizations in the U.S.
Given Mexico’s own
immigration policies, of course, this attitude is
supremely hypocritical. For one thing, Mexican law
requires
that all Mexican police enforce its immigration law.
But the Mexican
elite is right to fear SB 1070. [PDF]If
it is successful, it is likely to inspire other states
to follow suit. Then
Mexico’s safety valve may be in danger and its
leaders might actually (gasp!) have to figure out ways
to create jobs for its own people, rather than
dumping its poor on the U.S. welfare system.
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Predictably, Mexican president Felipe Calderon condemned the law.
Significantly, he was speaking to the council of the
IME (Instituto
de los Mexicanos en el Exterior) a branch of
the Mexican foreign ministry
explicitly designed to organize Mexicans living
in the United States.
Here’s what
Calderon said [my translations throughout]:
“We are going to act, we are
acting and we will act more. Nobody can stay with his
arms crossed in the face of the decisions that so
clearly affect the fellow Mexicans …who are there and
who will suffer the abuse of an unjust law, who have
contributed to the development and prosperity of
Arizona, inexplicable without the Mexicans
[Mexican
politicians
commonly claim that the U.S. owes its economic
success to Mexican immigrants] and least of all when in this case a law is set in motion that opens
the doors to an
unacceptable racial discrimination.”[
Gobierno Federal no permanecerá indiferente ante Ley
Arizona: FCH]
But Calderon sees
a silver lining:
“We know the
severity of this law, SB 1070, but I also think that
such an adverse circumstance has to be a spur, it has to
be one more incentive to fortify and to increase the
unity and organization of the Mexicans in the United
States and of the Mexicans in the United States
with
the Mexican government.”
(Emphasis added.
In other words, the Mexican president is openly
fomenting a Fifth Column in the U.S.)
Calderon is
counting on Obama:
“We value in all of its dimension
the rejection that
the President of the United States himself has made
to the anti-immigrant legislation of Arizona. I agree
precisely with President Obama that the
[Mexican and U.S.] Federal Governments have the responsibility to impel strategies that
deal with the migratory phenomenon from a comprehensive
perspective [a.k.a.
amnesty].
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Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan—who has openly
described the network of Mexican consulates in the
U.S. as “beachheads”—called
SB 1070
“racial discrimination”.
According to
Sarukhan
in El Universal:
“Mexico will utilize all the
diplomatic, political and economic resources in its
reach in response to the signing of this law.”
I don’t doubt
that! What’s scandalous is that our government has never
reprimanded this over-the-top meddling perpetrated over
the years by undiplomatic Mexican diplomats.
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Mexico’s foreign minister, Patricia Espinosa,
said that the law
“affects the
relationship between Arizona and Mexico and obliges
the Mexican government to consider the viability and
utility of the strategies of cooperation” with
Arizona.
Good! Because
Arizona, as a U.S. state, is not really supposed to have
a “relationship” with Mexico anyway. According to
Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution:
“No State
shall….enter into any Agreement or Compact … with a
foreign Power…”
Espinosa even had
the gall to say that
“the government
of Mexico recognizes the
sovereign
right of all countries to decide public policies
that should apply in its territory”. Nevertheless,
“criminalization
is not the way to resolve the phenomenon of
undocumented immigration. The existence of
cross-border labor markets demand comprehensive and
long-range solutions. The co-responsibility, the
confidence and the mutual respect should be the base to
deal with the shared challenges in North America.”
North American
Union, anyone?
An
article
reporting Espinosa’s anti-1070 stance stated that “the
embassy of Mexico and the five [!]
consulates of Mexico in Arizona will be redoubling their
actions of assistance, consular protection and legal
consultation.” [Meddling]
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Jose Angel Cordova, Mexico’s health secretary,
called the law
“abominable”.
The Mexican
Congress is also a hotbed of anti-Arizona rhetoric.
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Senator Santiago Creel
said that the law is
“anti-Mexico” and that the Mexican congress
would approve this week a statement to ask the U.S.
government to stop the law.
Creel predicts it
will be vetoed by the U.S. Supreme Court. He had a
message for the Mexicans in Arizona:
“You shouldn’t feel alone, that
although we are distant, we are Mexicans committed to
with the cause of the migrants and of our fellow
Mexicans”
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Luis Alberto Villarreal, chairman of
the North American Foreign Relations
Committee of the Mexican Senate called the law
“shameful” and spoke of the importance of working
“in other
states [of the United States]
to avoid a domino effect …today it’s Arizona but
tomorrow it can be another state”.
(Right on!)
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The
Mexican Senate had called on Governor Brewer her
to veto the law before she signed it.
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The congressional delegation of the
PRD (Partido de la Revolución Democratica)
called on the governor of the state of Sonora, the
Mexican state across the border from Arizona, to
“avoid any
commercial dealing or touristic interchange with the
governor of Arizona.”
Claimed the PRD’s
Domingo Rodriguez:
“The only way to
reverse this racist and xenophobic law is pressuring
commercially and economically the government and
legislature of Arizona.”
Carlos Navarrette,
president of the Mexican Senate, blamed the law on
the anti-Obama
“Right”, and asked Obama to annul the Arizona
law
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THE CNDH (Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos) is offering help to
Mexicans in Arizona, 24 hours a day, and can be
contacted by a toll-free telephone number
(01800-715-2000) or by email (migrantes@cndh.org.mx)
or on their
website. -
Many
governors of Mexican states got into the act.
Fidel Herrera, governor of Veracruz asserted:
“It is time to make a great call
to the
channels of Mexican diplomacy to avoid that a new
error is committed such as the wall and the persecution
against those who contribute to the development of the
United States.”
Other governors
piping up included Fernando Ortega (Campeche) , Andres
Granier (Tabasco) and Ulises Ruiz (Oaxaca).
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Ricardo
Aguilar, chief of the PRI party in the
State of Mexico, called the
“criminalization” if illegal immigrants
“atrocious and primitive”.
There’s even talk
in Mexico of a boycott against Arizona. The leader of
the PAN (Partido Acción Nacional) Cesar Nava,
called on Mexicans to boycott visiting Arizona:
“In protest of this legislation and in solidarity with our fellow
Mexicans who live there and who can be unjustly detained
due to this legislation.”
Others talking of
a boycott are Mexico’s interior secretary Fernando Gomez
Mont and some Mexican congressional representatives.
I think they’re on
the right track here! But if they’re really going to
boycott Arizona, how Mexico withholding its illegal
workers and drug smugglers from Arizona! That’s a
boycott we could all support!
Meanwhile, as
Americans, we should visit Arizona and spend some
tourist dollars there!
Of course, there’s
nothing surprising about Mexico’s hysterical reaction to
SB 1070. If we had national leaders who protected our
sovereignty, it wouldn’t matter a hill of beans what
Mexican leaders do or say about immigration.
But then again, if
we had such leaders, SB 1070 would have never been
necessary.
In the end more
disturbing than Mexican mewling: the opposition from
organized Hispanic pressure groups within the US.
Needless to say,
the NCLR (“National
Council of the Race”) which as I’ve
pointed out bases its ideology on that of
one-time Nazi sympathizer Jose Vasconcelos), is
lambasting SB 1070.
Janet Murguia, president and CEO of La Raza,
said that
“We will continue
to work with our allies to find a solution to our broken
immigration system at the federal level….”
“Broken
immigration system“?
How about our
unenforced immigration system?
And, needless to
say, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and
Education Fund)
denounced the law, and promised to
“pursue all legal
options to challenge” to it.
MALDEF even had
the gall the use the U.S. Constitution to justify its
opposition:
“..Our Constitution
envisions a unified nation under one federal set of immigration regulations
to be adopted by Congress and implemented by the
President.
[The federal government has immigration regulations—it
just won’t enforce them, which is why Arizona is doing
this]. By
rejecting that constitutional plan, Arizona’s enactment
of SB 1070 is tantamount to a declaration of secession.
[Oh, and
“sanctuary cities” aren’t?]
In response, the federal government must act to preserve
our united nation by clearly stating that it will not
cooperate in any way with the implementation of SB
1070—that it will not adjust or alter its immigration
enforcement priorities to the detriment of other states
simply to accommodate Arizona’s most recent exercise in
racial demagoguery.”
LULAC
(League of United Latin American Citizens), which at one
time was a patriotic assimilationist organization, is
“outraged
by the unconstitutional immigration law”.
One of the loudest
Arizona opponents of SB 1070 is MEChA alumnus Rep. Raul
Grijalva [Email
him], who
opposes secure voter ID as a nefarious Republican
plot. American Patrol has a whole
archive devoted to him.
Grijalva is ready
to betray his own state to defeat the law, calling the
rest of the country to boycott Arizona. Speaking to a
rally of thousands in Arizona, Grijalva
boasted that
“We’re going to overturn this
unjust and racist law, and then we’re going to overturn
the power structure that created this unjust, racist
law.”
What
“power structure”?
The government of Arizona? The Constitution of the
United States? The
historical American nation? All of the above?
Another
“American”
Latino opponent of SB 1070: Eliseo Medina of the
Service
Employees International Union. As I’ve pointed out
recently,
Medina has openly stated that the reason he wants
amnesty is that it will legalize millions of new leftist
voters. That’s totally logical, if treasonous—what a
shame the Republican Party hasn’t
gotten the message.
Reading
about the attacks on the Arizona law, I even ran across
a new Treason Lobby group! It’s a
Miami-based outfit
called
“Fraternidad Americana”,
an organization
“that represents thousands of children
estadunidenses
whose parents have been deported”.
Its
Nicaraguan-born executive director leader is Nora
Sandigo. She
said that Arizona governor Jan Brewer
“is reviving the
mentality that Hitler had. This is incredible, draconian
and we are going to see the police of Arizona exactly as
the Jews saw the Nazis”,
Wonderful! But
there’s one small problem with the tired and worn-out
Nazi analogy:
Hitler wasn’t trying to keep the Jews from immigrating
to the Third Reich. If illegal aliens would stay out
of Arizona, the state would have no beef with them—now
would it?
This hysterical
and hypocritical attack on the people of the Grand
Canyon state would not be complete without the
participation of Chicago congressman Luis Gutierrez.
Gutierrez is of Puerto Rican extraction, so immigration
laws wouldn’t affect him anyway. But he’s long taken up
the amnesty cause, presumably (and ominously) out of
some sense of ethic solidarity.
Gutierrez is
telling his Chicago constituents to boycott Arizona:
“Why would you want to contribute
to a group of people that clearly are engaged in a
discriminatory act?”
Another
“American” of
Puerto Rican ancestry slamming SB 1070: Evangelical
leader Samuel Rodriguez of the
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
(I’m an Evangelical, by the way). Rodriguez really
goes over the top
on his blog
:
“Today, Arizona stands as the
state with the most xenophobic and nativist laws in the
country. We need a multi-ethnic firewall against the
extremists in our nation who desire to separate us
rather than bring us together. Shame on you Arizona
Republicans and shame on you Senator John McCain for
endorsing the legislation.”
“We call upon RNC Chairman
Michael Steele to condemn this new law or Hispanic
Americans will read the silence as a de facto
endorsement and a purview of what will come if the GOP
takes over Congress in 2010. Second, we call upon
Attorney General Eric Holder to review this
legislation since it’s clearly a violation of
constitutionally protected civil rights. If you are
Hispanic in Arizona, you just became a suspect and open
to police harassment. We call upon all Latinos and
immigrants who are citizens in Arizona to defend their
constitutionally protected rights.”
[VDARE.COM links added].
Another
Evangelical Hispanic, William Sanchez, president of the
National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian
Leaders Legal Defense Fund , which claims to
represent 30,000 evangelical churches and 300 Arizona
Latino pastors, opposes the law and is getting a federal
lawsuit ready. [Immigration
advocacy groups to challenge Arizona law, Washington
Post, April 25, 2010]
Rich Latino
celebrities too, are jumping on the bandwagon. George
Lopez, Eva Longoria-Parker, Jessica Alba and Ricky
Martin were
busy tweeting against SB 1070.
Meanwhile back in
Arizona, the
“Arizona Hispanic Republicans”
posted a statement attacking the law. It was
posted on the Somos Republicans (We are Republicans)
website and was entitled
“Arizona
Hispanic Republicans React to SB1070 and We View It As
An Attack Against Our Civil Rights“.
(Some of the text of the document appears to be
written by a non-native speaker of English).
The
conveners of the “Latino Congreso”,
which is an umbrella organization of over 1000 Hispanic
groups, including LULAC, MALDEF and others,
“issued
a unanimous rebuke of the anti-immigrant bill SB1070“.[National Latino
Congreso Outraged by passage of Arizona Immigration Bill, Apr 22, 2010]
I could go on and
on. But it’s obvious that practically every U.S.-based
Hispanic organization with any influence is bashing this
Arizona law.
Not all
Americans of Hispanic ancestry are Open Border
fanatics. But it seems that virtually all influential
Hispanics, famous Hispanics, organized Hispanics, and
Americans who consider it important to self-identify as
Hispanics support illegal immigration—or at least
opposing doing anything about it, which amounts to the
same thing.
Even rich,
successful Hispanics, and organized Republican
Hispanics, are attacking Arizona’s attempt to protect
its own people from illegal immigration.
Don’t these vocal
Hispanics, insofar as they self-identify as such, betray
a deep-seated resentment of our country?
Is this going to
continue as the Hispanic proportion of the population
continues to grow in numbers and influence?
Before we import
more Hispanics, shouldn’t we reconsider if we are going
to lose all control over our immigration policy?
And is it really a
good idea to encourage Hispanics to think of themselves
as Hispanics rather than Americans?
Have we turned our
immigration policy over to the Hispanic voting bloc?
Does the
historical majority of our country have any say over our
future—or is it all up to
La Raza now?
As
Pat Buchanan says:
Whose Country Is This?
The bottom line
is: anybody who opposes SB 1070 is supporting illegal
immigration—and the abolition of America.
These are the
issue that SB 1070 is bringing into sharp relief.
Meanwhile, let’s
do what we can to support the courageous leaders and
citizens of the great state of Arizona.
They need our
support.
Their struggle is
our struggle.
American citizen Allan Wall (email
him) recently moved back to the
many years residing in
Mexico
Allan served a tour of duty in
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here and
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