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May 12, 2006
 Mexico’s
Lawlessness And Machismo—Coming Here, Courtesy Of
The Bush Betrayal
By
Joe Guzzardi
I have two sisters and several nieces and nephews who
live in
Guatemala.
Nothing gives them a bigger laugh than reading that
Mexico is calling the shots on
U.S. immigration policy and basing its demands on
"humane
treatment of migrants."
Throughout Guatemala, it’s universally understood
that when someone sets out for America, he’d better hope
and pray he makes it all the way. If such “migrants”
are
apprehended in Mexico, the lucky ones are jailed.
The unlucky ones will be mugged, beaten and
sexually assaulted before they are eventually thrown
unceremoniously back into Guatemala.
Captured migrants in Mexico are not, as is the
practice in the U.S.,
released pending a hearing. They will not be allowed
to
enroll their children in school, will not be
eligible for
medical services and will most certainly not be
participating in
massive street demonstrations for their perceived
rights.
Sonia Nazario, the
Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize winning author
of the soon-to-be released HBO movie
Enrique’s Story, said that while she was doing
research in Mexico, she was "afraid…afraid of the
gangsters, the bandits, the
Mexican police, of being beaten, robbed, raped…"
(Read my VDARE.COM analysis of "Enrique’s Story"
here and
here.)
Nazario’s simple sentence tells quite a tale about
Mexico’s lawlessness and machismo.
Lawlessness: As must be obvious to
everyone after the
May 1st illegal alien demonstrations, to
Mexicans illegally in America, immigration violations
are trivial, a non-starter in the
crime chase.
When you come from Mexico,
“crime” is drug running and murder.
Crossing the border, buying
fake documents, falsifying job applications and
submitting fictitious social service forms is
chicken feed.
VDARE.COM has posted numerous
columns and blogs that prove that major cities have been
overwhelmed by the gangster mentality that dominates in
Mexico.
Recently,
James Fulford tallied up the numbers of Hispanics
(mostly Mexican) on the
Los Angeles Police Department’s most wanted list.
According to
Fulford’s informal count, 85% of the suspects were
Hispanic.
And in columns that I have written
about
San Diego and
Salinas, the most wanted lists in those cities are
respectively 90% and 100% Hispanic.
(Thinking that perhaps George W.
Bush, Western Civilization’s number one booster of all
things Mexican, is geographically too far removed from
California to pay attention to our criminal profiles, I
looked up the most wanted in the District of Columbia,
home of the White House. Although Washington, D.C is
synonymous with black crime,
eight of the nine most wanted for murder are
Hispanic.)
Recently, in
Lodi, California, my hometown, a small Mexican
restaurant/night club was closed. By day, Antonio’s was
a
harmless Mexican buffet. But by night, enter at your
own risk. According to police logs, 98 calls for help
were made over an eighteen-month period.
The club closed partially because
new owners worried that the numerous police calls would
prevent the club for having its liquor license
transferred. [
Violence
outside Lodi club raises concerns for soon-to-be owners,
by Jake Armstrong, Lodi News-Sentinel, June 26,
2006
Machismo: in a classroom incident several
years ago, a
student who I knew well and liked told me that he
would be missing class for the next week or so because
he had to return to Mexico to "take care of family
business."
I naturally thought this meant an
ill relative or maybe a funeral. But another student
explained later that the trip home was to
avenge his brother’s murder. None of his friends
thought a revenge killing was out of the ordinary.
Of course, Mexico has peace loving
and devout, God-fearing people. But the presence in the
U.S. of its
criminal element has overwhelmed American society.
Because Mexico’s political culture is so lawless, and
because criminals are rarely prosecuted, often the first
course of action is macho physical violence rather than
rational debate.
But where would Mexican citizens
learn about rational debate?
Certainly,
Mexico’ politicians set a poor example. With
Mexico’s presidential election less than two months
away, the three main candidates are running on the
genitalia platform.
Read these recent statements:
- A television spot for PRI
candidate Roberto Madrazo: "We know why we’re
with Roberto. It’s because he has big ones."
- A radio ad for PAN candidate
Felipe Calderon: "He’s
got balls."
Mexican political analyst Marcela
Bobadilla says: "This thing about size comes from a
yearning among Mexicans for a strong president or even a
strong party." [Size
Matters in Mexico’s Macho Elections, Reuters,
April 26, 2006]
Given the
crime rate, the sophomoric mentality and the
rabid nationalism Mexico brings to the U.S., I can’t
fathom
the White House’s fascination…even though I
understand but naturally disagree with the cheap labor
angle.
We want more of Mexico? We want
ourselves condemned to the locker room crowd?
For the average American what it
comes down to is this:
massive immigration from Mexico has been a raw deal
on a
personal level.
When I first moved to Lodi about 18
years ago, I told my old New York friends that I would
walk from one side of town to the other at any time of
the day or night without fear.
That’s no longer true. As I file
this column on May 11, 2006, the Lodi News-Sentinel
has three stories on pages two and three of today’s
edition.
Right-minded Americans want the
same thing I do.
And it isn’t more of the
killing culture from
macho Mexico—coming here because George W. Bush has
betrayed his constitutional obligation to defend our
borders.
I want my town back.
I want my country back.
Joe Guzzardi [email
him], an instructor in English at the Lodi
Adult School, has been writing a weekly newspaper column
since 1988. This column is exclusive to VDARE.COM. |
