November 04, 2003
Memo From Mexico, By
Allan Wall
Whose Side Are U.S. “Latino Officials” On?
Some of America’s most patriotic citizens are
Americans of Mexican ancestry. And some of them
read VDARE.com.
I get email from Americans of Mexican ancestry who
are just as concerned about the ongoing immigration
disaster as we are.
But the
Hispandering so in vogue today is not aimed at them.
Both parties work overtime to appease activists,
organizations, and elected officials, who demand special
privileges, group rights and open borders.
Disturbingly, many prominent Mexican-American
politicians seem to function more as
agents of the Mexican government than as American
officials.
Unrepentant Mechistas
Antonio Villaraigosa and
Cruz Bustamante climbed to the top of California
politics. Villaraigosa publicly boasted that the
president of Mexico helped to mug Proposition 187 in the
courts.
In June 2002, a group of
California state legislators joined
Mexican diplomats for a
strategy meeting.
In August, 2002, Teresa Sanchez-Gordon, a judge in
the Superior Court of California, LA County, was a
guest on Vicente Fox’s
weekly radio show. Never once did Her Honor mention
her American citizenship. But she did pledge to utilize
the judiciary to
promote Mexican interests. The judge spoke of
“our people” (Mexicans, not Americans) and spoke
fawningly to Fox of “your leadership.”
As I
reported recently in VDARE.COM, Mexican-American
legislators in a
conference in Mexico this summer so flagrantly took
the side of the
Mexican government against their fellow Americans
that even an Anglo politician (!) who was there spoke up
in protest.
And U.S. congressmen Luis Gutierrez and Xavier
Becerra have publicly taken the side of the Mexican
government against
fellow congressman Tom Tancredo.
Do we detect a pattern here?
Polling indicates that most Americans
want our immigration laws enforced. Yet prominent
Mexican-American politicians continually support
driver’s licenses and
in-state tuition for
illegal aliens, and the acceptance of the
matricula consular. They do their best to stymie
border security, even after the
bitter lesson 9/11 should have taught us.
This phenomenon is being successfully exploited by
the government of Mexico. (See my article
“Undue Influence” in The Social Contract,
Winter 2002.) The Mexican government and media see
all Americans of Mexican ancestry, regardless of
citizenship, as Mexicans—and as tools of Mexican
foreign policy.
This must be offensive to patriotic Americans of
Mexican ancestry, but once again, they are not the ones
being
courted. The Mexican-Americans with the influence,
the ones being listened to and
pandered to—are the ones who promote open borders,
in
cahoots with the government of Mexico.
And the Mexican government is only warming up. It
recently hosted another conference in Mexico City,
specifically designed for Mexican-American officials. (Recibe
Derbez a alcaldes de EU de origen mexicano,
El Universal, October 27th, 2003)
They called it the “Primera Jornada Informativa
para Funcionarios Latinos Electos y Designados”
(the “First Public Awareness Conference for Elected
and Appointed Latino Officials.”)
Notice it’s “the first”—meaning they plan to
have more!)
The conference was held in Mexico on October 27th
and 28th. It was attended by 30 delegates,
all of them U.S. mayors and state legislators of Mexican
ancestry. They were able to meet and network with
Mexican government officials, congressional leaders and
academics.
Delegates included California legislator Marco
Antonio Firebaugh (who also attended the meeting with
the Mexican diplomats in 2002, see above), California
senator
Gil Cedillo (perennial campaigner for driver’s
licenses for illegal aliens) and Texas legislator Rick
Noriega (champion of in-state tuition for illegal
aliens). Also in attendance were California legislators
Fabian Nuñez and Bonnie Garcia—a Republican—and 25
others.
At the press conference the second day of the
Jornada, Representative Firebaugh impressed upon
Mexico the need to seek a migratory accord with the
U.S.
Firebaugh—speaking on foreign soil,
remember—spoke of the “exploitation of
Mexican workers,” a situation that he said “requires
an intervention by the
Mexican government”
(my emphasis) to accomplish an amnesty followed by more
“guest workers.”
(Finalmente Marco Antonio Firebaugh,
representante de origen latino del Distrito 50 de
California, conminó a México a buscar un acuerdo
migratorio con EU que no se base sólo en la situación de
los trabajadores temporales, sino que abogue por la
regularización de los mexicanos que trabajan desde hace
años en ese país.
Para Firebaugh, la situación de "explotación de
trabajadores mexicanos" en EU "requiere una intervención
del Gobierno mexicano", que debería centrarse antes que
nada en la situación de los indocumentados para
solicitar después un marco de regulación nuevo con
visados de trabajo para empleados en programas
temporales.—“Legisladores
hispanos instan a Fox a visitar pronto California”,
La Opinion, Oct. 29th, 2003)
So tell me, which government is Firebaugh working
for?
Foreign Minister
Derbez seemed rather pleased with his colleagues
from the northern territories.
According to El Universal,
“Derbez emphasized ‘the
work that elected Latino officials accomplish at the
local level in favor of’ Mexicans in the U.S.”
(Derbez resaltó "la labor
que los funcionarios latinos electos a nivel local
realizan en favor" de los mexicanos residentes en
Estados Unidos.)
Derbez is
also pleased at the work these officials have carried
out in promotion of the matricula consular, a
document successfully used by Mexico to
subvert U.S. immigration law (with the active
collaboration of
too many U.S. officials, most
not of Mexican ancestry).
Derbez spoke
of
“the support that the people's representatives of Latin
origin have offered to the
matricula consular, so that it be recognized as a
valid identification document in a wide variety of
procedures, for example the acquisition of a driver’s
license or the opening of a bank account.” (También,
"el apoyo que los representantes populares de origen
latino han brindado a la matrícula consular, para que
sea reconocida como documento válido de identificación
en una amplia variedad de trámites, como la obtención de
una licencia de manejar y la apertura de una cuenta bancaria".)
Congratulations, “Latino Officials.” The Mexican
government is very proud of you.
Ordinary
Americans, on the other hand, might not appreciate what
you’re up to.
That is, if
they still have any say in the matter.
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.
