I believe story telling to be an art form, certainly verbal record is the oldest form of recording history and recognized by historians worldwide. There is an old adage among those who love to tell a good tale, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." And yet there are times when the truth is even more fantastic than exaggeration. What I write here is the truth, plain and simple.
I reside on, and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. I've been here for 13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Some have called it "the wetback culture" or "America's border problem". Lately it's been taking steroids.
The recent murder of Robert Krentz by an illegal alien has received massive amounts of publicity worldwide. I live on the ranch bordering the Krentz ranch to the east and north. I can see the Krentz home looking out of my front door approximately 10 miles away. The day after Rob's death I was involved in tracking the outlaw into Mexico. I saw the outlaw's footprints where he crossed the border fence. I mention this to say I feel that I'm qualified to speak about current border issues.
My home has been broken into twice. My son's home has been broken into also and between us we have had between twenty and thirty thousand dollars worth of stuff stolen from us including two ranch pick-ups, a four wheeler, 9 firearms (including a loaded AK 47) cash, jewelry all of our credit cards, driver's license, etc. A guest house here on the ranch has been broken into so many times we quit counting... many times we haven't even called the Sheriff's dept. The Cochise County Sheriff's dept. has no less than fifteen reports on file where I've called for assistance dealing with an outlaw illegal alien.
Several months ago, not long after Rob Krentz's death, Fox news
(channel 10 in Phoenix AZ) contacted me and expressed interest in coming down and doing a news story about me and the problems myself and other ranchers in this area have had in recent months with illegal outlaws. To prepare for my interview with Fox, I asked for assistance from six other neighboring ranchers and businessmen. All of these men are prominent men in the community, tax payers, business owners and individuals who have the best of reputations. Together we made a map of the area which covered from the southeastern corner of AZ going west about 20 miles to the silver creek area, and going north about 30 miles to the area around the towns of Portal, AZ and Rodeo, N.M. On this map we made marks recording violations to United States law committed by illegal aliens. We did not use government statistics
(we wouldn't know how to get them) but recorded incidents that we knew had happened first hand, many of which we had witnessed. We tried to record only the incidents that have happened in the last several years.
The sum total of what we recorded is this:
The arrest or capture of 40 illegal in one bunch - 40 (we didn't bother with the countless smaller groups
Loads of Marijuana found and captured - 213
Dangerous encounters with illegal aliens - 132 (assault, burglaries, forced entries, etc.)
Dead illegal aliens found by civilians - 16
High speed vehicle chases between dope haulers and law enforcement - 14
Illegal aliens spotted with firearms - 12
Fires started by illegal aliens - 9
Over 1000, 000 acres burned with the cost to taxpayers of $
40,000,000. One fire near Portal AZ in June of 2010 cost $10,000,000. to fight (forest Service estimate)
Outlandish incidents - 4
Example: One bachelor in the Portal area was burglarized around 100 times. He finally took all his valuables and put them in a steel vault and welded the door shut. He then moved out of his house into a shed hoping the illegal aliens would leave him alone. They did not and he finally abandoned his property. Another outlandish event was when outlaws stole a brand new Caterpillar motor grader on the Geronimo Trail east of Douglas, AZ and drove south through the border fence never to be seen again. The grader belonged to Cochise County Hwy Dept.
Financial losses to private sector - $100,000,000.00 (losses in real estate value, personal property, etc., losses in wildlife habitat - immeasurable)
Last but certainly not least, the murder of Rob Krentz, which is right in the center of our map.
Let me put this in perspective. The area I'm talking about is an area that covers approximately 17 or 18 townships with only 20 miles being adjacent to the US - Mexico Boundary. Within this area, there is a population of perhaps
600 people, 90% of which reside in Rodeo, N.M. or Portal, AZ, 30 miles or so north of Mexico. No less than 80% of the people in this area have been burglarized or otherwise molested by illegal aliens. This area is about half as big as the Diamond A ranch or Babbitt ranch in northern AZ, both of which I've been employed on.
I'm sorry to report that this, in my opinion, is the small part of the story. The Mexican-American border has taken a dramatic change for the worse in the last several years. Those of us who live here see it first hand. As early as February of 1999 Sheriff Larry Dever warned me and others at a town hall meeting at the Apache School that the Sinaloa Cartel was moving into the Douglas-Agua Prieta area (Rob Krentz was at this meeting). The cities of Nuevo Laredo, Coahila, Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, and other border towns south of Texas have been controlled by outlaws for years. There is virtually no law enforcement in those places. The law is the law of the jungle. Until the last two years it seemed that Agua Prieta and Nogales were safer places but that has dramatically changed in recent months.
I am personally acquainted with 2 Mexican men, that I know to be honest and trustworthy, who have been involved first hand with Mexican outlaw terrorist acts. One witnessed first hand an execution of several people in broad daylight in Juarez. Several weeks later his daughter witnessed an assassination in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua no less than fifteen feet from where she stood. The other man is a legal Mexican green card holder (who was employed by the Krentz family for years) whose nephew was murdered by cartel members in Sonora. At night people in Douglas are hearing machine gun fire from Agua Prieta south of the border fence.
The Sinaloa Cartel is now putting a stranglehold on Agua Prieta. No more than 2 months ago 8 armed Mexicans were confronted by 2, U.S. Border Patrol agents north of the International Boundary in southeast Cochise County disguised as Federalizes. They were in fact cartel employees armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols. Mexican people that know tell me the situation in Agua Prieta has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. The good people are told to look the other way "or else." Volumes could be written about this subject alone, but I will move on.
You could ask, "So what does this have to do with us living north of the border fence?" Plenty! The situation on the border isn't just about a few workers walking north. It has everything to do with big business. Billions of dollars are being made trafficking humans, drugs, and contraband across the International Boundary. The Sinaloa Cartel, headed by Chapo Guzman and others, is reaping huge profits doing business along the border. The average coyote charges $1500 - $2500 to guide an illegal alien north to find work; usually abandoning them a short distance north of the line. A young man willing to pack dope north can make more than a construction worker or a teacher in the U.S. and only work a day or two a week.
This is not all south of the line. I could take you and show you businesses where checks and credit cards are not accepted and where very few customers walk through the door, yet the owners live in the largest mansions in town and drive very expensive cars. Could there be some money laundering going on? There are only two industries of any significance in Douglas, AZ: law enforcement (Douglas has one of the largest Border Patrol stations in America), and the illegal trafficking of drugs, people, etc. across the border. These two industries feed on each other, and the powers that be seem happy with the situation. Crooked politicians look good to the public when they clean up drunk driving and prostitution, until you find they own bars and whore houses south of the line. These things have happened!
But this, in my opinion, is only the beginning. Chapo Guzman who heads up the Sinaloa Cartel is a multibillionaire. This guy and others like him may be cruel and sinister people but they are also very smart businessmen. They are reaping profits off of the largest tax free unregulated business on the planet. They have so much cash they are befuddled what to do with it all. But they are going to figure it out.
There are rumors that Guzman is financing modern, state of the art feedlots and packing houses in Mexico with plans to overtake America as the Western hemisphere's leading beef producer. This is probably only a small part of his plans. Mexico is a nation rich in natural recourses. Petroleum is abundant and the corrupt Mexican government is in control of all of it. Pemex is the only gas station in town. Pemex, because of the incompetent Mexican government, is broke. Chapo Guzman is at war with the Mexican government and has dreams (not unrealistic) of controlling the entire nation. Think of all of Mexico's natural resources in the control of Chapo Guzman! He already has the most profitable business in the world - selling Marijuana to your next door neighbor. Think what he could do with a tax free unregulated strangle hold on a nation of poor people begging to work for practically nothing.
Do you think that Chapo Guzman and others like him haven't thought of all of this? Do you think that Guzman isn't laughing all the way to the bank as he watches the evening news and hears how the American Government proclaims that the situation on the border is under control? What is going on in northern Mexico is capitalism in its rawest form. They have an untaxed unregulated business making huge profits and they have no plans of closing up shop any time soon. We here in the U.S. are overtaxed, overregulated and being smothered by increasingly intrusive government that makes it hard to do business in a successful manner. You don't have to be rocket scientist to figure this one out.
This has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat or Latino or White. It has everything to do with being right or wrong. I came from a long line of Democrats. My great uncle was a U.S. Senator for several decades. My grandfather was an attorney, and a Superior Court Judge. I have a 1939 copy of a Time Magazine with his picture when he ran as a Democrat for Congress. The only time in history the U.S deficit was paid off was by a Democrat - Andrew Jackson. John Kennedy announced nearly 50 years ago that America could put a man on the moon and in less than a decade we did it.
I am now a registered Republican, but I'm not a Democrat hater. But, how can the president of the "can do" nation of Andrew Jackson's and JFK's party say we can't seal the border? We conquered Adolph Hitler in World War II, but can't seal the border? We put a man on the moon but can't seal a leaking oil well in less than 90 days? While this is going on we tax and regulate American business with a vengeance that stifles the free market system that has made our country great. While Janet Napolitano announces the border is safer than ever, Chapo Guzman and others pack billions of American dollars south to invest in a tax free market with one of the largest cheap labor force on the planet at his disposal!
I challenge you to come to Douglas, AZ and drive east on the Geronimo Trail, or northeast on US Hwy 80 to places on the map like Chiracahua and Apache. Or go to Rodeo and Hatchita, NM. Go and search out the 5 biggest cattle ranches in the Apache, AZ area and ask them what they think. Go to Hidalgo County, N.M. and ask the ranchers and cowboys there what they are seeing and hearing. Ask the people who we do business with what they think of our opinions. I challenge you to ask the prominent people in this area, who work hard and pay taxes if they agree with Barack Obama or Ed Ashurst when it comes to what is really going on near the U.S.-Mexican border. Unlike Obama and others I don't have to be surrounded by sycophants to make a statement. I purposefully left out the names of those who helped me with my map and the data I collected when preparing for the Fox interview.
In closing I challenge you to look around to see if what I say is the truth. This isn't about a few Mexicans wandering around looking for a job. This is about American civilization going into a time of tremendous change - a building has foundations and walls, maybe the foundation of our country is still strong, I don't know, but the walls have certainly fallen down and the keepers of the house are out to lunch.
When you have time, we think you will want to read this. Everyone living in AZ (and elsewhere) should know what is happening near our borders and near our homes.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico), By Allan Wall
How Mexican Law Undercuts “Anchor Baby” Interpretation of U.S. 14th Amendment
Under the current catastrophic interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, an illegal alien woman can cross the border, give birth to a baby five minutes laterand that baby is a natural-born U.S. citizen. That allows hundreds of thousands of “anchor babies” born to illegal alien mothers to be awarded automatic citizenship. It’s insane.
The good news: more Americans are becoming educated on this technical issue. According to a Rasmussen Reports telephone poll published last month, 58% (that’s a majority) of U.S. voters "say a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country should not automatically become a citizen of the United States…" Only 33% defend the current status quo.
To everyone’s amazement, even Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John Kyl have both recently made noises about closing the loophole.
The birthright citizenship scandal can and should be dealt with at both state and federal levels. Bills to rectify the loophole by statute have been introduced into Congress, and should continue to be submitted. State legislators in several states, including the heroic Russell Pearce of Arizona, are also preparing to tackle this issue. The issue could be voted on in state initiatives and lawsuits could also be brought to bear. And, if there’s no other way to rectify it, we should draft a constitutional amendment to eliminate the “Anchor Baby” loophole.
All these reform proposals, even those that fail, keep the issue on the front burner and educate the public. And that’s great.
Automatic birthright citizenship for the infants of illegal aliens is justified by its defenders with the Fourteenth Amendment. Here’s how the relevant part reads:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Now if original intent means anything, it means that the 14th Amendment was definitely not drafted to provide citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
It was passed in 1868, and its purpose was to guarantee citizenship for recently freed black slavesnot illegal aliens.
(For more information, read our own Howard Sutherland’s treatise Weigh Anchor! Enforce the Citizenship Clause which examines the amendment in historical context. Also see Washington Watcher’s recent article on the rising controversy Treason Lobby Does Damage Control On Birthright Citizenship.)
The key is in that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" language.
What we need to prove is that the children of illegal aliens are not completely “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
Happily, we can prove that very easily using Mexican law!
According to the Mexican Constitution, Capitulo II, Articulo 30, the child born to, or begotten by, a Mexican is a Mexican, regardless of where he is born.
Here’s the relevant part, in both in both the English translation and the Spanish original:
"The Mexicans by birth shall be…The individuals born abroad from Mexican parents who were born within national territory, from a Mexican father who was born within national territory or from a Mexican mother who was born within national territory…The Individuals born abroad from naturalized Mexican parents, from a naturalized Mexican father or from a naturalized Mexican mother…
[Son mexicanos por nacimiento…los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos nacidos en territorio nacional, de padre mexicano nacido en territorio nacional, o de madre mexicana nacida en territorio nacional;
… los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos por naturalizacion, de padre mexicano por naturalizacion, o de madre mexicana por naturalizacion…]
Thus, any child born to a Mexican parenteither mother or father, regardless of whether that parent is a natural-born Mexican or naturalized Mexicanregardless of where he is born, is considered a Mexican.
And Mexican consulates have the authority to issue documentation to children born to Mexicans outside of Mexico, to confirm it.
Think about what that means. According to Mexican law, every child born in the United States to a Mexican mother or Mexican father is a citizen of Mexico. [VDARE.com note: This would include George P. Bush, son of Jeb Bush and Columba Garnica Gallo.]
That means all these anchor babies born to illegal alien Mexican mothers in our hospitals (often at public expense) are entitled to be Mexican citizens.
It also means that all children born to Mexicans who are legally in this country are also entitled to be Mexican citizens.
So why on earth are we declaring them American citizens? According to Mexican law, they are under the jurisdiction of Mexico.
Thank you Mexico, for making that crystal clear!
And it’s not just the Mexican constitution. It’s the behavior of the Mexican government in regularly claiming jurisdiction over children of Mexicans born in the United States. Here are some examples:
1. Ernest Zedillo, president of Mexico from 1994-2000, told the audience at a National Council of La Raza convention in Chicago that "you are Mexicans too, you just live in the United States." Zedillo once declared that "we will not tolerate foreign forces dictating laws to Mexicans," even though he was speaking of Mexican immigrants in the United States.
2. On May 16th, 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox, in Madrid, Spain, spoke about "large Mexican communities settled in that country [the U.S.], more than 20 million Mexicans…."[ Does Dubya Know About Fox’s Madrid Speech?, VDARE.com, May 29, 2002]
3. On February 26, 2002, the Mexican consul general of San Jose, California, visited a school in Salinas, California, for an observance of "Mexican Flag Day." The Consul General, Marco Antonio Alcazar, spoke to a group of fifth and sixth-graders, the majority of whom were of Mexican ancestry. Alcazar told the students that "This is exciting because there are many children in this city who were born in the United States, whose parents are Mexicans, and these children have the opportunity now to enjoy two different nationalities and be proudly American and proudly Mexican." Following the speech and flag presentation, Alcazar donated two more Mexican flags and Mexican textbooks to the school. [ School marks Mexican Flag Day | Consul general presents pupils with banner By Elia Gonzalez The Californian,February 26, 2002]
4. U.S.-born dual citizen Juan Hernandez (Mexican father, American mother) served as Fox’s director of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad. Hernandez declared that
"We have recognized that the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States.... We are a united nation."
And, in an interview on the American news program Nightline, Hernandez stated bluntly that
"We are betting that the Mexican American population in the United States....will think Mexico first."
(Nightline, June 7, 2001)
5. During the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Mexican government began taking
"....a census of persons of Mexican ancestry who belong to the armed forces of the United States and who are stationed in the war zone..."[ Piden soldados apoyo a gobierno de Fox, El Universal, March 25, 2003]
Later, Mexican Foreign Secretary Derbez announced that Mexico was considering direct negotiations with Saddam’s regime over U.S. soldier prisoners of war who are dual citizens of the U.S. and Mexico!
6. In 2004, the Mexican Senate and the Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation held a conference in Mexico and the theme was "Los Mexicanos de Aquí y de Allá"- ¿Perspectivas Comunes?" ("The Mexicans Here [in Mexico] and There [in the United States]Common Perspectives?").
7. In 2007, in a speech in Monterrey, Mexico, Mexican president Felipe Calderon said that
"…. for my government, Mexico does not end at the border. Wherever there is a Mexican there is the fatherland. That’s why we are acting firmly and with determination to defend the rights and promote the interests of our fellow Mexicans abroad."
8. In 2008, in Dallas, Texas, Calderon spoke to a meeting of the IME (Institute for Mexicans Abroad) a 125-member Mexican-government sponsored group of Mexican leaders in the United Statesmany of whom are dual citizens. The Mexican president boasted that 40% of Dallas’ population is Mexican.
Calderon also endorsed the general Mexican view that children of Mexicans born in the United States are essentially Mexicans with added U.S. citizenship. Near the end of his speech, he said:
"There are Mexicans who are now Americans because they were born here….”
Notice how the Mexican government knowingly utilizes dual citizenship as a tool to further Mexican interests.
(See my VDARE.COM articles Mexico’s Nationality/Citizenship Shell Game and Shouldn’t This Dual Citizenship Thing Be Straightened Out Before We Allow Millions More Immigrants? )
9. The aforementioned IME [Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior] is a branch of the SRE (Mexican Foreign Ministry) designed to organize Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and their children and descendents, to keep them loyal to Mexico.
To Mexico, Mexicans who move to the United States will always be Mexicanseven if they become U.S. citizens. Children born to Mexicans in the U.S. are still Mexicans according to the Mexican Constitution. And even their descendents are still considered Mexicans.
So not only is automatic birthright citizenship not authorized by the U.S. 14th Amendment, but the Mexican constitution shows us that anchor babies are not “under the jurisdiction” of the United States.
By denying these alien-parented babies U.S. citizenship, we are not punishing them.
We are not depriving them of anything.
We are not hurting them.
After all, these babies are already considered citizens of Mexico.
And that’s where they ought to be returned, along with their parents.
It’s only fair.
Thank you, Mexico, for claiming jurisdiction over all these anchor babies.
Now you can take care of them!
Under the current catastrophic interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, an illegal alien woman can cross the border, give birth to a baby five minutes laterand that baby is a natural-born U.S. citizen. That allows hundreds of thousands of “anchor babies” born to illegal alien mothers to be awarded automatic citizenship. It’s insane.
The good news: more Americans are becoming educated on this technical issue. According to a Rasmussen Reports telephone poll published last month, 58% (that’s a majority) of U.S. voters "say a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country should not automatically become a citizen of the United States…" Only 33% defend the current status quo.
To everyone’s amazement, even Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John Kyl have both recently made noises about closing the loophole.
The birthright citizenship scandal can and should be dealt with at both state and federal levels. Bills to rectify the loophole by statute have been introduced into Congress, and should continue to be submitted. State legislators in several states, including the heroic Russell Pearce of Arizona, are also preparing to tackle this issue. The issue could be voted on in state initiatives and lawsuits could also be brought to bear. And, if there’s no other way to rectify it, we should draft a constitutional amendment to eliminate the “Anchor Baby” loophole.
All these reform proposals, even those that fail, keep the issue on the front burner and educate the public. And that’s great.
Automatic birthright citizenship for the infants of illegal aliens is justified by its defenders with the Fourteenth Amendment. Here’s how the relevant part reads:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Now if original intent means anything, it means that the 14th Amendment was definitely not drafted to provide citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
It was passed in 1868, and its purpose was to guarantee citizenship for recently freed black slavesnot illegal aliens.
(For more information, read our own Howard Sutherland’s treatise Weigh Anchor! Enforce the Citizenship Clause which examines the amendment in historical context. Also see Washington Watcher’s recent article on the rising controversy Treason Lobby Does Damage Control On Birthright Citizenship.)
The key is in that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" language.
What we need to prove is that the children of illegal aliens are not completely “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
Happily, we can prove that very easily using Mexican law!
According to the Mexican Constitution, Capitulo II, Articulo 30, the child born to, or begotten by, a Mexican is a Mexican, regardless of where he is born.
Here’s the relevant part, in both in both the English translation and the Spanish original:
"The Mexicans by birth shall be…The individuals born abroad from Mexican parents who were born within national territory, from a Mexican father who was born within national territory or from a Mexican mother who was born within national territory…The Individuals born abroad from naturalized Mexican parents, from a naturalized Mexican father or from a naturalized Mexican mother…
[Son mexicanos por nacimiento…los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos nacidos en territorio nacional, de padre mexicano nacido en territorio nacional, o de madre mexicana nacida en territorio nacional;
… los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos por naturalizacion, de padre mexicano por naturalizacion, o de madre mexicana por naturalizacion…]
Thus, any child born to a Mexican parenteither mother or father, regardless of whether that parent is a natural-born Mexican or naturalized Mexicanregardless of where he is born, is considered a Mexican.
And Mexican consulates have the authority to issue documentation to children born to Mexicans outside of Mexico, to confirm it.
Think about what that means. According to Mexican law, every child born in the United States to a Mexican mother or Mexican father is a citizen of Mexico. [VDARE.com note: This would include George P. Bush, son of Jeb Bush and Columba Garnica Gallo.]
That means all these anchor babies born to illegal alien Mexican mothers in our hospitals (often at public expense) are entitled to be Mexican citizens.
It also means that all children born to Mexicans who are legally in this country are also entitled to be Mexican citizens.
So why on earth are we declaring them American citizens? According to Mexican law, they are under the jurisdiction of Mexico.
Thank you Mexico, for making that crystal clear!
And it’s not just the Mexican constitution. It’s the behavior of the Mexican government in regularly claiming jurisdiction over children of Mexicans born in the United States. Here are some examples:
1. Ernest Zedillo, president of Mexico from 1994-2000, told the audience at a National Council of La Raza convention in Chicago that "you are Mexicans too, you just live in the United States." Zedillo once declared that "we will not tolerate foreign forces dictating laws to Mexicans," even though he was speaking of Mexican immigrants in the United States.
2. On May 16th, 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox, in Madrid, Spain, spoke about "large Mexican communities settled in that country [the U.S.], more than 20 million Mexicans…."[ Does Dubya Know About Fox’s Madrid Speech?, VDARE.com, May 29, 2002]
3. On February 26, 2002, the Mexican consul general of San Jose, California, visited a school in Salinas, California, for an observance of "Mexican Flag Day." The Consul General, Marco Antonio Alcazar, spoke to a group of fifth and sixth-graders, the majority of whom were of Mexican ancestry. Alcazar told the students that "This is exciting because there are many children in this city who were born in the United States, whose parents are Mexicans, and these children have the opportunity now to enjoy two different nationalities and be proudly American and proudly Mexican." Following the speech and flag presentation, Alcazar donated two more Mexican flags and Mexican textbooks to the school. [ School marks Mexican Flag Day | Consul general presents pupils with banner By Elia Gonzalez The Californian,February 26, 2002]
4. U.S.-born dual citizen Juan Hernandez (Mexican father, American mother) served as Fox’s director of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad. Hernandez declared that
"We have recognized that the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States.... We are a united nation."
And, in an interview on the American news program Nightline, Hernandez stated bluntly that
"We are betting that the Mexican American population in the United States....will think Mexico first."
(Nightline, June 7, 2001)
5. During the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Mexican government began taking
"....a census of persons of Mexican ancestry who belong to the armed forces of the United States and who are stationed in the war zone..."[ Piden soldados apoyo a gobierno de Fox, El Universal, March 25, 2003]
Later, Mexican Foreign Secretary Derbez announced that Mexico was considering direct negotiations with Saddam’s regime over U.S. soldier prisoners of war who are dual citizens of the U.S. and Mexico!
6. In 2004, the Mexican Senate and the Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation held a conference in Mexico and the theme was "Los Mexicanos de Aquí y de Allá"- ¿Perspectivas Comunes?" ("The Mexicans Here [in Mexico] and There [in the United States]Common Perspectives?").
7. In 2007, in a speech in Monterrey, Mexico, Mexican president Felipe Calderon said that
"…. for my government, Mexico does not end at the border. Wherever there is a Mexican there is the fatherland. That’s why we are acting firmly and with determination to defend the rights and promote the interests of our fellow Mexicans abroad."
8. In 2008, in Dallas, Texas, Calderon spoke to a meeting of the IME (Institute for Mexicans Abroad) a 125-member Mexican-government sponsored group of Mexican leaders in the United Statesmany of whom are dual citizens. The Mexican president boasted that 40% of Dallas’ population is Mexican.
Calderon also endorsed the general Mexican view that children of Mexicans born in the United States are essentially Mexicans with added U.S. citizenship. Near the end of his speech, he said:
"There are Mexicans who are now Americans because they were born here….”
Notice how the Mexican government knowingly utilizes dual citizenship as a tool to further Mexican interests.
(See my VDARE.COM articles Mexico’s Nationality/Citizenship Shell Game and Shouldn’t This Dual Citizenship Thing Be Straightened Out Before We Allow Millions More Immigrants? )
9. The aforementioned IME [Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior] is a branch of the SRE (Mexican Foreign Ministry) designed to organize Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and their children and descendents, to keep them loyal to Mexico.
To Mexico, Mexicans who move to the United States will always be Mexicanseven if they become U.S. citizens. Children born to Mexicans in the U.S. are still Mexicans according to the Mexican Constitution. And even their descendents are still considered Mexicans.
So not only is automatic birthright citizenship not authorized by the U.S. 14th Amendment, but the Mexican constitution shows us that anchor babies are not “under the jurisdiction” of the United States.
By denying these alien-parented babies U.S. citizenship, we are not punishing them.
We are not depriving them of anything.
We are not hurting them.
After all, these babies are already considered citizens of Mexico.
And that’s where they ought to be returned, along with their parents.
It’s only fair.
Thank you, Mexico, for claiming jurisdiction over all these anchor babies.
Now you can take care of them!
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