March 17, 2004
Paving The Road To Aztlan
This is infuriating: Is Mexico Thwarting U.S. Immigration Enforcement?
Most people know that Usama bin Laden's terror group, Al Qaeda (Arabic for “the base”), derives its name from the Mujahideen database that bin Laden developed through the 1980s and 1990s. Using “the base,” bin Laden could call on a corps of operatives to carry out missions. There is growing evidence that the Mexican government, in similar fashion, is working with a group called the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (“Institute of Mexicans Abroad”) to use its matricula consular database to deploy illegals to state legislatures and city councils across America. There, the illegal aliens — Mexican nationals who have been provided a matricula consular card – pack the gallery and seek to apply pressure against legislators who sponsor or intend to vote for bills that enhance immigration law enforcement.[....]
Where does the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior get its instructions? From Vicente Fox. The Instituto was created by presidential decree and reports to a group of Mexican government officials who are posted to Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is Mexico’s equivalent of our own State Department.
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California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy recalls the floor debate on a California measure, SB 60, that would have allowed illegal aliens in California to qualify for a state driver’s license. Referring to the former name of the territory ceded to the United States by Mexico as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, Mountjoy took the floor and said “This bill paves the road to Aztlan."
"Then everyone in the gallery stood up and applauded,” Mountjoy said.
Last summer, a Mexican consulate in Michigan detected that the small city of Holland might adopt the matricula consular as a valid form of identification. Consul General Miguel Antonio Meza Estrada traveled to Holland’s city counsel meetings five times, many times with what can only be described as a mob in tow, all of whom Estrada held out to be beneficiaries of the matricula consular. Holland finally postponed a decision on the issue because the meetings had become so contentious.
I strongly suggest you read the whole thing. When are we going to get serious about this? Neither party seems to have the will, for their own reasons, to deal with the Mexico problem.
Posted by Ithildin at March 17, 2004 6:57 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE