Mexico’s war on America

I’ll have an article coming out at FrontPage Magazine in the near future on the Mexican war against our country. Researching this piece, I realized that Mexican immigration is much more than a matter of individuals migrating northward; it is part of a concerted campaign, an expression of the entire Mexican society. Here is a preview:

The Mexican invasion of the United States began decades ago as a spontaneous migration of ordinary Mexicans into the U.S. seeking economic opportunities. It has morphed into a campaign to occupy and gain power over our country—a project encouraged, abetted, and organized by the Mexican state and supported by the leading elements of Mexican society.

It is, in other words, war. War does not have to consist of armed conflict. War can consist of any hostile course of action undertaken by one country to weaken, harm, and dominate another country. Mexico is waging war on the U.S. through mass immigration illegal and legal, through the assertion of Mexican national claims over the U.S., and through the subversion of its laws and sovereignty, all having the common end of bringing the southwestern part of the U.S. under the control of the expanding Mexican nation, and of increasing Mexico’s political and cultural influence over the U.S. as a whole.

Cultural imperialism

It is important to understand that in promoting and carrying out this attack on the United States the Mexican government is representing the desires and aspirations of the Mexican people. These are:

(1) Political revanchism—to regain control of the territories Mexico lost to the U.S. in 1848, thus avenging themselves for the humiliations they feel they have suffered at our hands for the last century and a half;

(2) Cultural imperialism—to expand the Mexican culture and the Spanish language into the whole of North America;

(3) Economic parasitism—to maintain and increase the flow of billions of dollars that Mexicans in the U.S. send back to their relatives at home every year, a major factor in the functioning of the chronically troubled Mexican economy and the corrupt Mexican political system.

These motives are shared by the Mexican masses and the elites. According to a Zogby poll in 2002, 58 percent of the Mexican people believed the U.S. Southwest belongs to Mexico, and 57 percent believed that Mexicans has the right to enter the United States without U.S. permission. Only small minorities disagreed with these propositions.

For Mexico’s opinion shapers, it is simply a truism that the great northern migration is a reconquista of lands belonging to Mexico, the righting of a great historic wrong. “A peaceful mass of people … carries out slowly and patiently an unstoppable invasion, the most important in human history“ [emphasis added], wrote columnist Carlos Loret de Mola for Mexico City’s Excelsior newspaper in 1982.

A reader writes:

Your observations about the nature of the Mexican invasion really helps identify what it represents: A national invasion.

Our leaders talk about illegal immigrants as if we must view them only in the context of individuals, ie., immigrants, each seeking to better his life, “good dads,” “hard working folks,” etc., etc. In reality, this is no longer an issue of illegal immigrants. It is an issue of a great national migration. It represents one nation of people taking another’s’ land, there to reproduce it own nation and people, in their own image.

When the Romans first acquiesced to the VisGoths presence as they came cross the Danube, “peacefully infiltrating,” as the Columbian Encyclopedia puts it, they probably thought they would simply, in time, be good Roman subjects. They didn’t understand until too late that they came and would remain, a nation, retaining their national sense of identity and cohesiveness.

Until we as a nation, can recognize that the Mexicans come across similarly, without asking our consent and with their own national identity and will, the religion of individualism will render us helpless to defend ourselves. Even then, we would have to somehow revive our own largely forbidden sense that we ourselves are a nation, not just individuals and consumers, and have a right to defend our land as a nation.

I replied:

Thank you for this. This crystalizes the issue much better than I did in my article. I wish I had included these thoughts in the article. If it is not published this week, perhaps I will have a chance to do so.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 15, 2006 10:15 PM | Send