Sovereign Nation or Sanctuary Nation: Mexican consulates step up meddling in US politics
I often ask you: Are we a sovereign nation or a sanctuary nation?
I often remind you: It’s your choice.
You can choose to get involved in immigration enforcement efforts in your backyard. Or you can choose to do nothing and allow the sanctuary brigade to have its way.
A lot of media attention has been paid to the veteran who ripped down a Mexican flag. I prefer to focus on the efforts of people fighting the unglamorous fight in the trenches to ensure that criminal illegal aliens are not turned loose, that employer sanctions are enforced, that Congress does not pile on more illegal alien incentives, and that the plethora of immigration laws already on the books are enforced.
Fighting for sovereignty is much more than just a battle over symbols.
The Mexican government is giving its consulates in the U.S. wide latitude to ramp up a campaign to toughen their defense of immigrants and plans to give them more resources as well, officials familiar with the strategy said.
The move comes as deportations reach an all-time high in the toughest crackdown in decades by the U.S. government and police authorities.
Among the actions under discussion are the creation of an anti-defamation league similar to that focused on protecting Jews; budget increases for some of the 47 consulates, especially in regions such as North Texas, where Mexican migration has been swift and plentiful; and a media campaign aimed at counteracting groups opposed to illegal immigration and sometimes legal immigration.
The effort underscores the tension in U.S. communities grappling with problems created by illegal immigration. And it is sure to further incense groups demanding a crackdown on immigration, both legal and illegal.
“Our fight is no longer inside the Beltway,” said one senior Mexican official, who agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity. “We have been forced to change our strategy.”
… Nearly two dozen U.S.-based immigrant leaders, including North Texans, flew to Mexico City recently to meet with senior officials of the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry to discuss the strategy. The Foreign Ministry and its Institute for Mexicans Abroad, or IME, is carrying out the government’s plan.
Mario Ramírez, a Dallas businessman and Mexican immigrant who attended the meeting, said he knows his loyalty to the U.S., as a naturalized citizen, will be questioned.
But “as descendants of Mexicans and citizens of the United States, we feel it is our responsibility to create bridges of understanding because the anti-Mexican mood in the United States is causing us – and both countries – much harm,” he said. “What do we have to lose anymore? We’ve been beaten up to the point that all we can do is fight back. … Things will get worse before they get better.”
Foreign Ministry officials called the meeting part of a strategy by President Felipe Calderón to “reinforce consultations and communications with organizations dedicated to the defense of the rights of migrants.”
The Mexican consulates are well-funded, well-organized, and everywhere. Thanks to their influence, the Bush White House ignored homeland security warnings about the illegal alien Mexican matricula consular cards and allowed the phony baloney cards to proliferate as Treasury Department-approved ID. Mexican consular meddling has dangerously hampered border enforcement. Heather Mac Donald has reported exhaustively on the Mexican government’s growing power and influence in working to sabotage immigration enforcement efforts.
You can yank one Mexican flag down. But it’s an empty victory without the sustained energy and will to work within the law, and for the law, and hold our government accountable for its immigration enforcement failures.
Mexico is doing the job the American government won’t do: Putting its people first. If Washington won’t look after our interests, we have to take control in our own neighborhoods, counties, and states. That was the lesson of the summer that the Newark murders should have taught us.
The Newark Effect is taking hold in some areas:
In Pennsylvania, state lawmakers–invoking Article IV, Section IV of the Constitution, have introduced an illegal immigration reform package, National Security Begins at Home, to address threats posed by illegals to national security and personal safety.
In Benton County, Arkansas, local officials have signed onto the 287(g) program, the cooperative arrangement with ICE to train law enforcement in immigration/detention procedures.
The sheriff in King George, Va., is also on board.
So’s the governor of Kentucky.
And the governor of Missouri.
And law enforcement officials in Beaufort County, SC.
And Mesa, AZ. And Bedford County, TN.
These efforts don’t make it onto the nightly news.
But if the war with the open-borders meddlers is to be won, it will be on these battlefields…not on the drive-by, cable TV shoutfests.
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Outrageous
I feel there is a very big storm brewing, indeed. Except this time the battle lines will not be so dependant on geography. Sad state of affairs. Glad I’m reading The Tiger’s Way.
I forsee a Mexican-American War in the 21st century and we the people of the United States of America will win…..period.
Awsome comment Michelle!
If I fight imagration…do you think it will hurt my chances with the soap stars on telemundo?
Don’t forget the Sheriff of Maricopa County, the always unavoidable for comment, Joe Arpaio. His officers are trained ICE officers also.
How can I fight it if I can’t spell it! immigration
Michelle,
BZ! You are a torrent of information!
Hurricane Michelle, with all the news that is news.
Man, I’ve got to go into blog training. I’m out of breath and my finger’s are cramping.
My brother-in-law is Mexican as is his parents. All legal immigrants. He’s a geologist with an evil oil company in Midland, Tx and is fighting the good fight as well. Just so folks know…there are legal Mexican’s who don’t like illegal immigration and are in the fight too.
When…Oh When…will our supposedly ‘conservative’ elected officials actually support the people who elected them by fulfilling the requests of those people? American’s want border enforcement. Period. Not just conservatives either. 70% of ALL Americans.
How hard can it be to say “Sorry, you can’t come in. You’ll have to fix your own country.”
I understand why the Democrap congressmen want open borders (if not their constituents) but why are we getting close to zero support from our Republicans????
And they wonder why the polls say Republicans are losing faith in the GOP.
And for God’s sake Craig, just resign already!!! (sorry to be off-topic, just venting)
EEEK! My brother-in-law is Mexican as
ishis parents…are!
EEEEEK again! My brother-in-law is Mexican
as is his parents. of course they are!This day has been long. Ack! Ack!
It amazes me that we allow another nation to meddle with our internal affairs without complaint – the very thing we are accused of all over the world. While Mexico(and other nations) have the right to set up consulates around the country, they have absolutely NO right to interfere with the internal workings of our nation. If we were to instruct our consular offices in Mexico to do the same kind of thing, how long do you think it would be before those offices were to be closed?
It is beneath contempt that “our” government would allow this sort of action. But, I suppose it’s nowhere near as important as trying to censure a private citizen for something he never said. While I recognize Bush as the commander-in-chief, and as POTUS accord him the respect inherent in that office, I am rapidly losing personal respect.
I, as many of the commenters I see on this site, live in the Bay Area. I see every day the contempt people hold for past and present members of the Armed Forces. For the most part, I consider the source, and ignore it the best I can, especially when it’s directed at me.
However, when a foreign country takes better care of its citizens in this country than our own government does of its own citizens, and we assist them in that effort, it really makes my blood boil.
My wife and mother-in-law both came here legally. The proudest day of my mother-in-law’s life was the day she was sworn in as a U.S. citizen. I know beyond any shadow of a doubt how she would feel about what’s going on in her adopted land. She would be outraged beyond belief.
I can categorically state that the Newark Effect won’t be taking root here. We have too many “Nuclear-Free” Zones to worry about. That doesn’t mean I won’t work for it, though. To paraphrase, “Better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all.”
first they screwed up their countries, then they sneak into our countries, guilt our weak-kneed spineless elected officials out of protecting this country for what it stands for, and finally they proceed to try to turn this great nation into precisely what they escaped from in the first place. Then WHY did they leave their sorry rotten countries to start with?!
Does anyone remember the Alamo?
Where is our Battle of San Jacinto?!
One thing that has got to me is the dual citizenship public officials in our country can hold. Personally I think to be elected to a Federal Office then we need to have a law where they renounce their citizenship in any other country. We have a bunch of Mexican citizens who are elected officials.
Also it is important to note that if Mexican nationality is obtained, the interested party must renounce his/her original nationality. I love the double standard they hold on this issue.
One thing that has got to me is the dual citizenship public officials in our country can hold. Personally I think to be elected to a Federal Office then we need to have a law where they renounce their citizenship in any other country. We have a bunch of Mexican citizens who are elected officials.
Also it is important to note that if Mexican nationality is obtained, the interested party must renounce his/her original nationality. I love the double standard they hold on this issue.
Most their countries were never un-screwed…
You would think that they would work as hard to make their country better as they’re woking too screw ours up.
Although I am against the GIANT amounts of foreign aid we hand out to other countries, if there is such a large problem in Mexico, wouldn’t it be better for funding to help cure what ills them,, rather than taking on their problems?
What’s funny their starting to invade Canada now and Canada is screaming!
We should do for the Mexicans what we did for the Iraqis.Maybe that will solve the problem of them crossing the border illegally.Given the option of staying in a free country or moving to another free country,most would stay put.Those who chose to leave would have respect for their new home.Nah-probably not.
We’ve been dumping money into Mexico in the form of financial aid for decades. To date, it doesn’t appear to be solving any problems. It just shows the Mexican’s who haven’t crossed the border yet how wealthy we are and what they’re missing out on.
Understatement of the day:
Yep, I am questioning it.
My mother was a nauturalized citizen from England. She loved this country and would never have done anything against it.
So, yes, I question his loyalty.
Well, THANK YOU to Presidio Burrito Bush!
I agree with the above poster; we will have to have a civil war to get OUR country back from thieves.
That includes Congress ^^^
Yeh, sure. Deportations are insignificant compared to illegal entries, which are increasing exponentially. Isn’t Washington just putting on the toughest show in decades?
Doesn’t make any sense to waste effort tracking down illegals, who are more numerous than grains of sand on the beach, have nothing to lose, and are difficult to investigate with their multiple IDs, or to fence the borders. A serious effort means going after businessmen who hire them. Anything short of that is just for show.
“Mexico is doing the job the American government won’t do”:Sending its undesirables somewhere else. Let’s send Moveon.org,Code Puke,the ACLU,and the Folsom Street Festival to Mexico.
Immigration (legal or illegal) will eventually cause a schism in this country. I don’t believe entire states will secede, but I do believe that border areas will. I have no timeframe or any facts to support this. Except that most people realize that illegal immigration is unsupportable. Politically, or financially. If the federal gov’t doesn’t clean up this mess, there will most likely be two countries between Canada and Mexico.
I have relatives that are as liberal as can be. BDS is their way of life. And they are appalled at the immigration situation. They don’t say “undocumented workers”, they say “illegal aliens.” Even some liberals get this issue. How hard can it be?
I live in CA (Mexico Norte). Hospitals here are failing at an alarming rate due to illegals using the emergency room as their clinic. And they don’t pay. Of course, the socialists in the state gov’t believe that everyone is entitled to gov’t sponsored health care. So they do nothing. It gives them a reason to blame conservatives when people lose their jobs. Thanks for nothing, Karl.
The best answer is to put any CEO or company president in jail if any illegals are found working for the company. Doesn’t matter who hired them. Put the big boss in jail. When he gets out, the person that did hire the illegals will be fired immediately. And the problem will never happen again. That will cause all of the jobs for illegals to dry up. And with no jobs for them, they’ll stop coming here. I doubt this will happen since both the Dems and the Republicans want these workers. Eventually, there will be a cost. God only knows what it will be.
Alphonse,
While what you say has some truth, I think the problem must be met with a multi-pronged attack. Yes, I said attack. Although, at this point, it is more of a counter-attack I say.
Here in Manassas, VA, they are slowly starting to self-deport. The commuter parking lots here are becomming filled on the weekends with illegals trying to sell their cars at rock bottom prices.
And how bout these juicy MS-13 apples
Mark #25 why is that because of the raids or the housing market problem and no jobs?
Michelle – what is the status of the mobilization you started a few months ago to deport criminal aliens immediately?? I signed up immediately, but haven’t heard of any news on that front.
I email, FAX (via NumbersUSA), call, and hand-deliver letters to my 2 Senators and my Congressman weekly and sometimes more than once a week. Their staffs know me by the sound of my voice.
I also email my friends with news, etc., and urge them to do the same as I do. I spend many hours a day reading news on this subject.
What else can we do? It is so discouraging to listen to the absolute crap from amnesty apologists in our government, starting at the top with President Bush.
We hope you can help focus our individual efforts on this issue.
THANK YOU so much for your hard work and superior research on this issue!
http://www.deportthemnow.com/
#28
Tom Clancy described exactly this scenario in “Teeth of the Tiger”. Scary.
Should we all send a copy of the book to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and DHS??
Already signed up. I call. I write. I FAX. I have a website: http://www.jmi.com/immigrationmarches/
I would love to join a MM march on Washington!
Thxs for the other site Fred
If anyone has any ideas of what more I can do in California please let me know. Trying to get through to Boxer and Feinstein is like trying to whittle the Titanic out of a giant redwood with a pocket knife.
Careful – all the tree-sitters in Berkeley will be all over you for that!
Is this an admission that the flood of illegal aliens from Mexico is part of a concerted effort (read: conspiracy) within their government to threaten US national sovereignty?
Can anyone explain to me how this ISN’T an act of war?
Pressure Congress to turn off the faucet of benefits and priveleges and the Mexicans will return home.
1. Increase GAO oversight over Health and Human Services (welfare) offices everywhere. Monitor the advice and counsel given by federal employees to people of Latino/a descent regarding drivers licenses, Medicare, welfare, SSI, and other privileges and benefits.
Put the kabash on the information flow and advocacy that HHS is doing outside their legal standing.
2. Have the GAO audit welfare and Social Security payments that are being mailed out of the USA to Mexico. Granted there is a growing retirement boom in Mexico by our own citizens. But the lions share of the welfare FRAUD is USA to Mexico welfare payments.
2 billion cases of Identity theft. DUH! Close it down.
3. Force Congressional leaders to audit the hiring practices in their states and districts. Who’s hiring whom? Throw the business owners in jail so they can meet Mexicans and Salvadorans up close and personal to see what it is they are really supporting by doing business with illegal labor.
xler8bmw:
Word on the street is that the illegals are getting nervous. If they get caught, they’d rather lose a bicycle than a car before they are sent packing.
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted this week to implement Chief Deane’s “rules of engagement”, so to speak as well as the county enrolling in 287(g). They deferred a vote on withholding community services and increased funding for the police department until the 16th of this month.
I live with the cultural decline this lack of action has caused. My neighborhood has changed tremendously over the 16 years I’ve lived in it – and not for the better.
Before any trolls want to jump on me and call me racist, my girlfriend is the daughter of second generation Mexican legal immigrants. Her parents never spoke Spanish in the home and gave them all American sounding names. In fact, when they started school, the district had enrolled them in ESOL classes. Their father went and told the principal no and had them enrolled in the standard curriculum.
If you’d like to read more about what is going on here locally, check out these:
Black Velvet Bruce Li
Help Save Manassas
We should also be targeting Miami. How is it possible to step into a US city and not be able to use English for day-to-day operations? It’s ridiculous. They should revoke federal funding for that city!
See who Nevadans have as AG. Check the photo with this caption:
“Talking with Senator Harry Reid & Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa”
at her campaign website:
http://www.catherineforag.com/photo-gallery.html
Thanks Mark, I hear ya on that NJ is a sanctuary state. And the new Sen Menendez is a sanctuary senator…
Obviously, those who pay any attention at all to the illegal immigration issue realize that it is not a conservative/liberal or a Republican/Democrat issue. As evidenced by the coalition of folks behind the recently failed immigration reform bill and the opposing coalition that defeated the bill, this is one of those issues (and IMO, almost every issue should fall into this category in a fully functioning government), where Michelle Malkin and her acolytes are going to have to reach out to like-minded Democrats/liberals. To recap, the competing alliances are as follows:
Pro Immigration – big business and “sympathetic” (another adjective would be “beholden”) Republicans (e.g., the Bush boys), the Catholic Church and other sympathetic Christian groups, secular sanctuary organizations (most of you would deem these folks as the bleeding heart liberals)
Anti Immigration – various unions and “sympathetic” (see above for another adjective) Democrats, grass root conservative organizations (known well here)
I’m sure my lists aren’t complete, but you get the idea. Without such an alliance, the result desired by most of you likely doesn’t have much of a chance. Can it happen? Will it happen?
I’m confused. Wasn’t Mark talking about Virginia? And didn’t the NJ AG declare an end to all sanctuary policies in NJ a week after the Newark executions?
I saw a news story that the first 2 apprehensions in NJ, in the first week after the change in policy, netted 2 machete-wielding illegal aliens, who otherwise would have been released.
It’s a start.
bear1909
Please see my post #140 back at the “Code Pink…” thread.
Fred yes he was and I was stating that NJ was the same. Yes the AG did do that but, it won’t make a difference. I grew up in Sth Jersey and the papers won’t even say status and you know they’re illegal. They just arrested a drug dealer from Nogales in AC HHHHMMMMM legal or not…I live in Jersey City in one of the last nice areas and we are full of illegals.
The state of Oklahoma has done the same thing.. the law was ratified by Gov Henry a few months back and went into effect 10/1/2007. Illegals were fleeing for Arizona, Texas or back to Mexico.
Check it out:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070621_238_A15_hBusi67588
Moved back to California in 2003, and was absolutely dumbfounded by the illegal impact. I thought it was bad back in 1993! Something must be done to stop this invasion.
xler8bmw -
I was born in Newark and lived in Cranford many years ago. Ever hear of Grunings ice cream stores? My (legal) immigrant grandfather was a partner.
Maybe there is hope for NJ:
What a coincidence! NJ ends sanctuary policy and immediately catches two machete-wielding criminal aliens. What luck!!
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0NyZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzE4NzI3NCZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
http://www.nj.com/southjersey/index.ssf/2007/08/man_arrested_for_assault_with.html
During the 2006 pro-criminal alien demonstration in Dallas, I was the only white person I could see in the city hall plaza. I offered a group of Hispanics surrounding me the following: a gun and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. All they had to do was take it and go defend their own rights in their own country. Nobody seemed to want to take me up on it.
They were very nice and I lived through it, as I expected, because THEY ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE, generally. The ones that bother me are the LULAC and MalDef goons that eat up our court system, and bribe or imtimidate officials with lawsuits.
About 18 months ago, I published a novel about a Mexican military invasion, and I pray to God that it never becomes an historical novel. The horror I envision is worse than anything that CNN or FOX can broadcast.
However, Molon Labe.
I think we have to work at the local level as well as the national level. Kansas is a mess with a Democratic governor (Sebelius) who handed out driver’s licenses to illegals and in-state tuition years ago. I have had many talks with my local Ks congressman over the years but lately been focusing on national issues. It’s time to put the pressure back on the Ks congressmen to step up the pressure on illegals here in the state. Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri are all getting tough and their illegals will be coming here in droves if we don’t do something.
Haven’t taken the time to read the previous comments yet, but at my part-time retail job, we ask for photo ID when accepting a credit card. More than one customer has presented a matricula consular card when asked. I can’t tell you how many non-English speaking customers we have who routinely pay with cash, and have a huge wad of bills in their wallets. I can’t help up think those people aren’t supposed to be here to begin with. And, I think more than one has been surprised when I tell them “No habla Espanol” because I have dark hair and dark eyes…
I am afraid that within a very few years we are going to see pockets of open warfare between citizens and illegals in this country. It will be very interesting to see which side “law enforcement/military” comes down on and supports.
If Mexico was truly putting its citizens first they would be making the homeland better instead of sending them Norte for opportunity.
UberInfidel67~
A lot of the “aid” we send to Mexico, I’m sure, isn’t getting to the people who really need it. The Mexican government – at all levels – have an extremely high rate of corruption. When you get some guy in place who tries to put a stop to it, those who stand to lose do everything they can do (to include murder) to get rid of them.
I am an underemployed new teacher living in Texas. I sub right now, but I could probably have a job already if I was willing to live in a border town. No, thanks. I’d rather continue to be underemployed and living with my family than put myself in that dangerous position – a single female living alone in a town overrun with illegals of unknown morality (yes, some are just here for jobs, but others are criminals before they even cross the border illegally).
I presume the increased budget for their consulates comes from the foreign aid we give them.
They must be doing this with at least the tacit consent of the Bush administration. Pretty sad.
Chertoff – your lettuce is fine, go back to sleep.
Lott – your goats have escaped again.
Oh, and Mexico isn’t truly doing what is best for it’s people – they are doing what is best for those in power – exporting their poor so they won’t cause trouble for The Ruling Elite (who are most likely the decendants of white Spaniards, not the indigenous peoples the Spaniards conquered). If they were REALLY doing what was best for the Mexican people, they would fix it so millions of their people wouldn’t be risking their lives to sneak into the US.
One of my favorite sayings: The American Indian found out what happened when you don’t control immigration.
Can I block Hispanic soap operas on my TV?
They speak so fast, it makes me dizzy…….and their props are so dang garish!
Right now, the dollar is continuing to devaluate against other currencies, including the Canadian dollar. If it keeps going further south, Mexicans might decide that other countries offer greener pastures.
“Camp of the Saints” might as well be a history book.
We better do more then we are doing now. Congress is not unaware it is only we who are.
Just ask the local Shoshone-Paiute Tribal Council at the Duck Valley Reservation on the Nevada-Idaho border. Our local AFB has a great relationship working with them. They provide the bombing and air-to-air combat ranges our Wing trains at. They used to rule most of the Western US (Wyoming to the Deschutes River in Central Oregon from the Columbia River to parts of Arizona) now they are restricted to two reservations in Idaho and a small plot of land in Burns Oregon. I hope we go down as hard as they did. They gave the US Army hell from the 1840s – 1880s.
You say, “I often ask you: Are we a sovereign nation or a sanctuary nation? I often remind you: It’s your choice.”
SORRY, BUT IT’S NOT MY CHOICE AND IT’S NOT MY FAULT!
pressto, the U.S. does not recognize dual citizenship of naturalized citizens. Since most countries tend not to allow “giving up” your citizenship, naturalized Americans can have de facto dual citizenship, but the U.S. government does not recognize it.
As for renouncing citizenship of their former country, it is already mandated in the oath of allegiance of naturalized citizens:
#53. That is my point really. Maybe when we start handing out buckets of money to these third world countries, we should have some accounting as to where this money is going. Heck there are some people who won’t give a homeless person 5 bucks for fear it may go toward alcohol. But these same persons probably have no problem whatsoever forking over billions in aid to other countries.
If Mexico has the resources to fund activities in the US, they obviously no longer need any US support. Kill two birds with one stone – shift all funds destined for Mexico and earmark them to fund border protection and immigration enforcement.
There, that was easy. Next problem?
I’m glad Michelle posted on one of our local sheriffs. I live in a neighboring county to King George County. The sheriff there is a good man and a good sheriff. The county where I live is doing a “study” on illegal immigrants. This is a “study” to study how to spend my money.
#64 said.
If Mexico has the resources to fund activities in the US, they obviously no longer need any US support. Kill two birds with one stone – shift all funds destined for Mexico and earmark them to fund border protection and immigration enforcement.
I second that motion. If us common folk can figure it out why-oh-why can’t the elite in DC figure it out?
The Reconquista types can take back the United States without one single bullet fired. Who needs soldiers with guns, when you have lawyers, and anti-defamations leagues? This must be the Top Secret Mexican plan to conquer America. From within. The Mexican generals, lawyers, and politicians know that both multiculturalism, and political correctness are our weakness. After all, we give more rights to illegal aliens than they give their own people.
Bear1909 said:
Agreed. Hit them where it counts. The pocketbook.
This week there was a meeting in Tenn. of people interested in succession. It included not only Southern conservatives but Yankees from Vermont. Their point was that our government has so lost its way and has become completely unresponsive to the average American. Our constitution is only a piece of paper and we no longer have a voice with our votes. This issue with immigration is only one example. I am wondering if a major change in our government is the only way to restore our freedom. Succession is moving out of the concept of seeming to be crazy to the only viable alternative to change our lives.
There’s an ambiguous but thought provoking sentence in the Opinion section of the NH Sunday News today(Matthew Yglesias)that says “President Bush…is busying himself raising half a billion dollars for his post-presidency, with, no doubt, much of that coming from individuals interested in influencing public policy.” The article is on loopholes in the law that allow sitting presidents to do this without having to disclose. Makes ya’ wonder who’s contributing!!!
More good news on the immigration front…We are very fortunate to have the internet and FOX. You won’t get this information from the MSM.
As long as these people continue to meddle in our country, they will only increase the resolve most of us have to get rid of them.
This is not all bad news.