"Who Is Running This Country, Anyway: American Citizens Or The Mexican Government?"

Paddy Pearse

June 4, 2007

Americans have seen an increased pressure on our government to allow the free flow of immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere. These efforts include the introduction of massive militant marches on American streets. This all appears to have been too well planned and precisely coordinated to have been spontaneous.

We know that the Mexican government paid for full-page ads promoting the demonstrations. We know that the Mexican government has help finance the activities of organizations, like the League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC), to move the promotion of the shifting of the Mexican poor to the American tax supported social programs.

I still would like to know what role the Mexican consular corps, e.g. Mexican government, is playing in this subversive activity. It is known that about twenty years ago Mexico began to change some approaches to sustaining Mexican immigration to the United States.  However, the massive changes were instituted by Mexican President Vicente Fox.   

It was determined by the Mexican government that in order to sway US public and legislative attitudes, it would be necessary to develop a means to insinuate itself in the determination of the American legal process. This could be accomplished only through having Mexicans vote in US elections and become more active in the overall political process to form pro-immigration mindsets.

To do this, several initiatives were begun.

One, they concluded that it would be necessary for Mexican nationals in the US to become national US citizens so they could vote and, thereby, influence legislation on immigration and social programs supporting this immigration. Mexicans here generally wish to return to Mexico. The Mexican Constitution, at that time, removed Mexican citizenship from anyone who became a nationalized citizen in another country. This impeded the Mexican plan for US citizenship for voting Mexicans. As the Mexicans wanted to return to Mexico, Mexican immigrants refused to become US citizens. The solution was simple. They changed the Mexican Constitution. Mexicans can now become American citizens and retain their Mexican nationality, which allows them to return to Mexico when they decide and still be Mexicans who, still here, help determine US immigration policy. This Mexican constitutional change also allows US birth citizens of Mexican extraction to claim formally Mexican Nationality. This is a blatant attempt to include Americans in Mexico's process. This attitude is reflected in the way that Mexican officials, including their presidents, speak of the number of Mexicans living in the United States. In the count of Mexicans in the US, they include Americans of Mexican descent. In effect, they eradicate their birth certificates and make them Mexican nationals forming American immigration laws.

Two, a cabinet level position was created to coordinate the Mexican government's efforts to alter American law and practice. This new governmental effort included a drastically increased Mexican consular corps having many functions not normally thought of as relating to consular activities. They are to retard Mexican assimilation and to convince Americans of the correctness of the Mexican stance on immigration. Consular officers would be charged in the promotion of bi-lingual education including supplying Mexican teachers and textbooks, which will keep Mexicans Mexican. Consuls will visit American schools to nestle the Mexican children in their heritage. In their capacity as Mexican diplomats, they are to establish personal relationships with local governments, including schools, and civic groups in order to push issues affecting immigration, such as substitute documentation for illegals suppression of enforcement of immigration laws. Also, they have augmented the budget for additional legal counsel for arrested illegal aliens. Consuls are aiding and financing the establishment and operation of social and sport organizations for Mexican nationals where Mexicans can congregate in order to suppress Mexican assimilation into the American culture. These could also be used to disseminate information prepared by the Mexican government on current events and planned activities. One of the more important consular tasks is working to assure that Spanish media will provide programming and articles to persuade Mexicans in the US that they had a "human right" to be here and to work. Another important broadcast media target is the presentation of Mexican life style programming. The consuls also promote the massive observances of Mexican national holidays, such as the Cinco de Mayo, and patriotism, such as the raising of the Mexican flag in as many places as possible. Through its consular offices, the Mexican government is assisting such radical advocacy groups as the National Council for La Raza.

About the same time, the Mexican government started to change the Mexican education curriculum to reflect the concept that the US had stolen the Southwestern part of the US from Mexico, and therefore this land was still theirs and they had a right to be here. Some Mexican immigration advocates go so far as claiming that this theft has so affected the Mexican psyche that the country has not be able to recover and progress. As a result, over 55% of Mexicans now believe this gross misstatement and now believe that they have a right to come to the US at will, as it is theirs by right. This same view among students and other demonstrators is apparent from the attitude of the recent demonstrators.

To further cement Mexican immigrants' continuing loyalty to their homeland, Mexico has begun promoting absentee voting in Mexican elections by Mexicans living here. More importantly, there has been discussion of allowing Mexicans living in the US to be apportioned and allowed to elect direct representation in the Mexican congress.

The efforts in extending a Mexican presence in the Spanish media have been quite successful. Spin through the radio dial and note how many Spanish formats are present. If you have cable television, you can see Spanish programming from throughout Latin Mexico. There has been an explosion of Spanish print media. Considering our adherence to a free press and freedom of speech, it is difficult to berate this activity. However, if you are bi-lingual, you will note that the Mexican government's agenda is often the agenda of this media. American response is nil as most Americans, including the press, are ignorant of what is being said.

Other means have been instituted to assist Mexicans, who, rejected by their own government, steal across the border. The Mexican government has published pamphlets, maps, and other aids to instruct illegals when, where, and, how to slip over the border and, then, what to do when they get here or if they are caught. The Mexican government is also issuing survivor kits to those on their way to the US. There are continuing reports of Mexican soldiers crossing into the US to protect smuggling activities.

Have these activities borne fruit? It might be difficult to tie these Mexican governmental efforts to the attitudes and rhetoric of the students absented themselves from class to march in protests; to the mass of people waving their national flags and demanding immediate citizenship and the vote; to the statements that they are here and had a right to be; to cities declaring themselves to be sanctuaries for the oppressed; to organizations, such as the Catholic Church, proclaiming that it is a human right for these illegals to come here, or, to the Spanish press who miraculously and simultaneously began to promote, not only the demonstrations, but the Mexican government's initiative to undermine American law.

The Catholic Diocese of San Antonio is having a seminar -- inviting the youth of Texas to attend -- called "On the Streets". Do students and streets sound familiar?

There are reports of students proclaiming that the US stole the American Southwest from Mexico, which ignores historical facts. The Mexican tyrant, Santa Anna, lost Texas in a revolution and then sold the rest to the US in two deals that he, knowing American dreams of Manifest Destiny, structured and initiated. Stranger than fiction, Santa Anna did this in three different administrations. He was removed from office each time he seized power, but while he was there, he helped the US grow.

Where did students in American schools get these mistaken historical ideas? Could it be bi-lingual education with texts and teachers furnished to the U.S. educational system?

It may be difficult to tie the Mexican government directly to the street demonstrations and other furor, but circumstantial evidential does win cases at times. It makes one wonder, "Who is running this country, anyway: American citizens or the Mexican government?"