April 15, 2004
Memo From Mexico, By
Allan Wall
Guess Who’s Planning To Lobby Your Congressman?
As Americans, we are
raised to believe that we can make a difference, and
that our leaders are accountable to us.
We believe that our
senators and representatives in
Congress should
listen to what we have to say.
When you try to
influence them, however, you find that it’s no piece of
cake. You pour your heart and soul into writing your
representative or senator, and more likely than not, you
receive a form letter providing no evidence whatsoever
that your message was even read.
Yes, I know, they have a
lot of things to attend to. It’s not realistic to expect
them to respond to each letter personally.
Besides attending to
lowly constituents like you and me, they must also
attend to
political action committees, their
party leadership and lobbyists from
corporations and
private advocacy groups.
And now, we constituents
must also compete for their attention with…
lobbyists representing Mexico and the Central
American nations.
Mexico already enjoys an
undue influence over U.S. immigration policy
and its diplomatic personnel already meddle
brazenly in internal
U.S. politics.
Mexican
matricula consular cards enjoy widespread acceptance
throughout U.S. territory, where they serve as de facto
legalization documents.
Some Latino elected
officials in the U.S.
openly function as agents of the Mexican government.
And with the rise of dual citizenship,
Mexicans can vote in both countries.
Mexico has even
meddled in our military in a brazen attempt to win
the loyalty of Mexican-American soldiers.
And the Mexican
government is becoming a participant in our legal
system. When it didn’t like a U.S. Supreme Court
decision, Mexico
negotiated with our own Labor Department to limit
its application.
In the recent
DeCoster case in Maine, the Mexican Foreign Ministry
(SRE) was a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by 900
Mexican workers, who, in an out of court settlement were
paid 3.2 million dollars. The Mexican government hailed
it as an “important precedent.” [Indemnizan en
EU a mexicanos maltratados, , February 15th,
2004,
El Universal]
And—surprise!—the
Mexican government is promoting that big class action
lawsuit by illegal aliens against supermarket chains
in California.
The next step for
Mexican hegemony over U.S.
immigration and citizenship policy: lobbying your
senator and congressperson.
And you thought they
were representing your state and district?
Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez, on a recent two-day
visit to El Salvador, announced that
“Mexico and Central America will join forces to lobby
U.S. legislators to pass U.S. President George W. Bush’s
immigration reform proposal... The minister said Mexico
and Central American nations would jointly lobby U.S.
senators and congressmen to approve a reform to allow
undocumented immigrants working as field hands to
regularize their status in the United States.” [
Derbez
says he'll lobby U.S. Congress on reform,
El Universal, March 10, 2004].
What do you know? Several months back, I
wrote here of “the Mexican government’s intention
to lobby strongly to support current immigration
measures pending in the U.S. Congress.”
But now the Mexican Foreign Minister impressed on his
Salvadoran counterpart, Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila
that the countries should team up, to “try, even
during an election year in that country [the U.S.]
to see some modifications of that law approved.”
Great. Not only are both
Bush and
Kerry, the two major party Presidential candidates,
open border fanatics, but also Mexico and the Central
American countries will be hounding your alleged
representatives in Congress to open the border some
more.
Speaking in San
Salvador, Derbez even felt confident enough to announce
that the Bush amnesty proposal (known here at VDARE.com
as the
“Bush Betrayal”) “would not apply to just
Mexicans, but would also benefit immigrants of different
nationalities.”
Derbez is making
promises on our behalf to all Central Americans.
It’s as if someone
invited himself into your house, then proceeded to
invite his other friends over for a party – at your
expense.
So where will your
senators and representative stand on these issues? Will
they listen to you and your fellow voters?
Or the leaders of
foreign countries?
Patriotic Americans want
to know.
American citizen Allan Wall lives and works legally in
Mexico, where he holds an FM-2 residency and work
permit, but serves six weeks a year with the Texas Army
National Guard, in a unit composed almost entirely of
Americans of Mexican ancestry. His VDARE.COM articles
are archived
here; his
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM articles are archived
here; his
website is
here. Readers
can contact Allan Wall at
allan39@prodigy.net.mx.
