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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico), By Allan Wall
Mexico Kicks Out Our Ambassador—Can We Kick Out Mexico's Meddling Ambassador Sarukhan?
[See also The Armenian Ambassador From Mexico Thinks American Armenians Should Be Unpatriotic]
In case you hadn't
heard, Carlos Pascual,
U.S.
ambassador to Mexico,
resigned his post on March 19.
Officially,
Pascual
resigned,
but he did so under duress. His problem was that he had
fallen out of favor with Mexican president
Felipe Calderon.
Essentially, the President of Mexico hounded him out of
office.
The row was over
WikiLeaks.
In diplomatic cables never intended for public
consumption, Pascual, like any good diplomat, had
relayed his impressions back to the State Department. In
these dispatches, he expressed his lack of confidence in
various aspects of the
Mexican government's war on the drug cartels.[
Envoy Quits Over Cables on Mexico,By
Damien Cave, NYT, March 19, 2011]
When this was made
public, Mexican Presidente Calderon was furious, and he
began to lambaste (rather childishly, if you ask me) the
American ambassador publicly.
For example,
Calderon
said
that
"I do not have to tell the U.S.
ambassador how many times I meet with my security
Cabinet. It is none of his business. I will not accept
or tolerate any type of intervention,"
Don't Mexican
diplomats send diplomatic cables to the
Mexican foreign ministry?
Here's another
(incoherent) Calderon attack on Pascual:
"… that man's ignorance translates
into a distortion of what is happening in Mexico, and
affects things and creates ill-feeling within our own
team."
After this treatment, Pascual resigned his post. Calderon had won.
In effect, he successfully expelled an American
ambassador.
That's diplomacy, right? Pascual was just doing his job, but because of WikiLeaks and the thin-skinned Mexican Presidente, he lost his position. (Don't worry about Pascual, he's been appointed the State Department's Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs.)
What about Arturo
Sarukhan, the Mexican ambassador to the United States?
The ambassador has
an interesting family background.
In the
Spanish dual surname system,
his surnames are
Sarukhan (father's surname) and Casamitjana (mother's
surname).
Sarukhan's
paternal grandfather was an
Armenian aide to
Alexander Kerensky, the Russian leader before the
Bolsheviks
took over. When that happened, Sarukhan (the
grandfather)
fled
the Russian Empire.
On the maternal
side, the Casamitjana family was of Catalan origin. The
family fled their ancestral region of
Catalonia,
in
northeastern Spain,
during the
Spanish Civil War.
We've written
about Sarukhan in
a
number of articles
here at VDARE.COM. He's a smooth, intelligent and very
effective agent of Mexican colonization in the U.S.A.
In 2006, when
Sarukhan was put in charge of Mexico's relations with
the U.S., he said that the Mexican embassy and consulate
network would be used as
"beachheads"
to promote the Mexican agenda on U.S. territory.[No se me fue de las manos la SRE: Sarukhán,
El Siglo De
Torreon, (English
translation)December
6, 2006]
Several months
later (Feb. 2007), as the new Mexican ambassador,
Sarukhan set out to influence U.S. immigration policy,
announcing that
protecting the "rights"
of Mexicans
north of the border
"forms the
backbone of our diplomacy in the U.S."
Oh, and "The thinking that walls must be built to
detain the flow of migrants because that flow
threatens security
is wrong."
Got that?
Throughout his ambassadorship, Sarukhan has remained faithful to his
mission, openly meddling in U.S. immigration and
nationality policy.
Seeing the
advantages of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans having a
big census count, Ambassador Sarukhan got mixed up in
the
U.S. census.
At the end of
2009, in his message to
"the Mexican
Community in the United States", Mexican Ambassador
Sarukhan explained to Mexican colonists that there was a
census in 2010 and it would determine the (U.S.) budget
"for essential
services for our community" and (U.S.) legislative
districts. Additionally, he assured them that census
data wouldn't be shared with other U.S. government
agencies. (Illegals,
don't worry).[
Mensaje del
Embajador Arturo Sarukhan a la Comunidad Mexicana en
Estados Unidos en ocasión del fin de año]
The Mexican
diplomatic corps worked hand in hand with the U.S.
government and
Hispanic organizations
on the census, with Mexican diplomats
actually helping Mexican immigrants
fill out 2010 U.S. Census forms.
At times Sarukhan
acts more like a colonial administrator than a diplomat.
So he objects to American objections to mass illegal
immigration.
Last year he
came
out swinging
against Arizona's SB 1070 law. Sarukhan called the
law
"racial discrimination"
and promised that
"Mexico will utilize all the diplomatic, political and economic
resources in its reach in response to the signing of
this law."
This year,
Sarukhan has been concerned about what's been going on
in Georgia, where several legislative proposals offended
the ambassador.
Several days
before HB87, one of the proposals, was scheduled to have
a hearing in the Georgia legislature, Sarukhan was in
Atlanta campaigning against it. He did an hour long
interview with the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While bashing
Georgia's HB87,
the ambassador took a swipe at a congressional proposal to close up the
anchor baby loophole (he keeps up with that issue,
also). [Mexican Ambassador Blasts Georgia Bills Aimed at Illegal Immigrants,
By Jeremy
Redmon, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, February 3, 2011]
In March, Sarukhan
was back in Georgia to host a meeting of Mexican
provincial governors, excuse me, I mean
"consuls" to
discuss the discouraging wave of American subjects
asserting their independence. In attendance were the
consuls of
Atlanta, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Miami, New Orleans,
Orlando, Raleigh and Mexican diplomats from Washington.[Sarukhán
Critica Initiativas de EU,
El
Universal,
March 15, 2011]
To get an idea of
Sarukhan's agenda in our country, consider some of his
twitter entries
from the past few months, where he comments with
reckless abandon on U.S. internal legislation.
On May 11, he
tweeted
" Kudos to the Senators that have
reintroduced the DREAM ACT today, a common-sense
initiative that should garner bipartisan support."
He also liked what happened in Maryland:
"Maryland's Dream Act signed today
by Gov O'Malley is recognition of important contribution
of immigrants to future well-being of the US." (May
10 tweet).
On February 22,
Sarukhan was happy with the New Mexico senate
"for rejecting a bill against undocumented immigrants."
And he was happy
when the Arizona Senate didn´t pass any more measures
attempting to stop the invasion:
"…businesses,
civil society & AZ Senate reject additional
antiimmigrant laws ." (March 22nd).
But the ambassador
expressed his displeasure on February 19 that the U.S.
House
voted
"to block [Obama] Adm[inistration]
from requiring border FFL's to report multiple sales of
assault weapons."
Sarukhan liked
President Obama's immigration speech in El Paso,
tweeting
on May 10 that "Pres. Obama makes a powerful & compelling case for comprehensive
immigration reform".
On April 19th,
Sarukhan said it
was
"Encouraging that Pres Obama
reengaged with bipartisan immigration reform
stakeholders. Mex[ico] will be a co-responsible partner
in this effort. "
On May 5th, the
Ambassador expressed appreciation to Nancy Pelosi:
"Thank YOU for all your support &
help and for continuing to work for the well-being of
the Latino community in the US!"
Unsurprisingly,
Sarukan tweeted on April 11, that
"We welcome the US Ninth Circuit's
court ruling on AZ SB1070 reaffirming full authority of
the [U.S.] Federal Gov[ernment] in enforcing [U.S.]
immigration law."
The ambassador is
not too busy to pay attention to a pending law suit:
"The Mex[ican] Government stands
side by side with migrant farmworkers in US: New class
action suit against a Nevada agribusiness presented
today."
(March 15).
On April 13,
citing an HBO special as a source, the ambassador said
that "closing loopholes in gun shows is so important".
Certainly,
Sarukhan is watching demographic trends, and tweeted on
March 26 that "2010 Census results underscores role of Latinos as the driving force
behind population growth in the US."
On March 14th,
Sarukhan tweeted about the importance of registering
Mexicans in the U.S. at their nearest Mexican consulate.
Why? "To locate
them in emergencies". Yes, and to organize amnesty
demonstrations?
The distinguished
ambassador attended a
LULAC
(League of United Latin American Citizens) dinner, and
had kind words for the organization
"that has done intense work in favor of our communities in the U.S."
Did you notice that
"our communities"?
And don't leave
out the national Council of La Raza, he attended their
dinner too (tweet on March 8th).
Well, you get the
idea. In contrast to the hapless Ambassador Pascual, who
was only doing his job and had his diplomatic cables
noised abroad by WikiLeaks, Sarukhan is openly meddling
in U.S. internal politics.
That is in
violation of the
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963.
According to
Article 55, all diplomats have the duty
"to respect the
laws and regulations of the receiving State. They also
have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of
the State."
If our government
respected our sovereignty, and upheld a treaty of which
both the U.S. and Mexico are signatories, wouldn't
Ambassador Sarukhan have already been hounded out of the
country? Doesn't he deserve it more than Ambassador
Pascual?
In an America that respected its sovereignty, that's what would have happened. But Sarukhan and other Mexican diplomats have gotten away with so much in recent years. They figure nothing is going to stop them, and under current U.S. leadership, they are probably right.
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