NO PLACE FOR RECONQUISTA

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 20, 2006 02:53 PM

The Washington Examiner editorial page, headed up by recently departed blogging newshound Mark Tapscott, issues a challenge to President Bush:

t received little coverage in the mainstream news dailies, but many bloggers highlighted the significant influence of “Reconquista” advocates and concepts in the recent pro-immigration marches across the country. Reconquista aims must be honestly confronted by all sides if the immigration debate is to be honestly conducted and credibly resolved.

The first thing to understand about Reconquista is that while it is perhaps not the official policy of Mexico, it might as well be. Current and former top Mexican government officials and advisers, for example, along with leaders of U.S. groups like the National Council of La Raza, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, routinely co-host seminars of the Foundation for Solidarity of Mexico and America, according to Hector Carreon of the Aztlan Communications Network. The basic aim of FSMA, which is a key convergence point of open-borders advocacy in both countries, is uninterrupted immigration from Mexico to the U.S…

President Bush should call upon President Vicente Fox and other Mexican political leaders to disavow the Reconquista movement explicitly and to adopt much-needed reforms to expand economic opportunity and spread the wealth more widely in their nation. And Congress should reiterate in law and regulation that, while we will always welcome the world’s huddled masses, those who immigrate to America are expected to become Americans.

To do otherwise is to risk growing in the U.S. precisely the same sort of fevered separatism that now racks France and Germany…

Right on.

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Previous:

Rock-throwing reconquistadores
The signs you didn’t see
Viva la Raza in D.C.
Welcome to Reconquista
Another American flag down
The American flag comes second
Free rides for student protesters
How ’bout media guest workers?
Welcome to reconquista
Teddy Kennedy is very happy
Bush’s shadow boxing
Minutemen attacked
Bush’s open-borders platitudes

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