The War On Our Southern Border

[thedrifter]

08-11-2003

The War On Our Southern Border



By Roger Moore, DefenseWatch Contributing Editor

Part 1 in a Series


?The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.? ? Article IV; Section 4 United States Constitution



All but ignored by the U.S. military and our elected political leaders, a concealed war on our southern border continues to escalate.



While the United States is willing to go thousands of miles to confront the more visible supporters and sponsors of terrorism and spend billions of dollars doing so, why is it that the Bush administration, both parties in Congress and the Pentagon are ignoring a security threat in our own back yard? That threat is twofold:



First, it includes the growth of criminal violence and an increasing vulnerability to terrorist infiltration stemming from continuous invasion of illegals across the porous U.S.-Mexican border.



The situation is steadily worsening because of U.S. inaction. The Bush White House euphemistically cites ?cultural and historical reasons? for the kid-gloves treatment of this invasion. In fact, political expediency and group-identity politics are to blame.



The second aspect of this war is a quiet but concerted effort by the Mexican government to extend its political influence over the 9 million Mexicans living in the United States.



You want evidence?



In her DefenseWatch article on April 5, 2003, ?Balancing Security, Trade on the U.S.-Canadian Border,? Contributing Editor Andrea West cited U.S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci from a recent speech where he noted, ?For Canada the priority is trade, for us the priority is security. Security trumps trade.?



Along the U.S.-Mexican border, the opposite is true: Trade and an entire voting block trumps security.



It is no secret that President Bush, based on his experiences as a businessman and politician in Texas, respects and has long courted the Hispanic vote. In a 2001 speech touching on U.S.-Mexican relations, the president said, ?Some look south and see problems. Not me. I look south and see opportunities.?



Mexican President Vincente Fox looks northward and sees the same opportunities, but on a grander scale.



President Fox has stated publicly that he believes the border between our countries should be completely open. Reports in The Arizona Daily Star and World Net Daily reveal that to effect that change, Mexico is in the process of trying to establish groups and individuals with dual-citizenship in our country.



Moreover, the Mexican government has established an ?Advisory Council of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad? to advise Fox on matters pertaining to the 9 million (5 million residents, 4.5 million illegals) Mexicans currently living in the United States. This group is comprised of 100 members of the Mexican government and prominent Mexican-Americans selected by the 44 Mexican consulates within the United States. Those U.S. citizens report to the Mexican government.



Logic would say that our closest neighbors ? Mexico and Canada ?should be our best allies. Sadly, relations don't always follow logic. Canada has found itself serving as an inadvertent support base for al Qaeda terrorists who have tried to infiltrate across the border to launch more attacks, and Mexico has become a ?second front? for such subversion.



This year alone, there have been at least five identifiable serious incidents involving Mexican/Latin American illegals and other foreign nationals along our 1,940-mile southern border. According to the news website World Net Daily:



* An illegal alien from Mexico involved in a gunfight with Virginia State Police on Feb. 4, 2003, came under FBI investigation after an informant reportedly claimed that the suspect identified himself as from an Arabian country and planned to poison the state?s water supply.



* A southern Texas sheriff in mid-March publicly warned that unidentified armed men dressed in military fatigues had been spotted on numerous occasions on Texas soil near the border with Mexico. Local authorities said they did not believe the men were drug traffickers.



* U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on March 20 warned that terrorists may have targeted the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona, the nation?s biggest commercial nuclear power facility. The Washington Times reported that security officials were looking for Iraqi government ?sleeper cells? that might carry out such an attack.



* Also in March, U.S. Border Patrol officials confirmed a rash of daylight ?border busting? incidents where illegals driving in large-sized vehicles physically crashed through border-control station barriers in attempts to enter the United States.



* The Washington Times reported on Apr. 7 that at least 14 al Qaeda terrorists in Mexico were working with organized crime elements in an attempt to infiltrate into the United States to launch more attacks.



Nor is that list the only troubling sign. Over the past five years, there have been no less than 118 documented border incursions by the Mexican military, according to The Washington Times and the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus.



Generally speaking, when U.S. forces or personnel ?get lost? close to a foreign country?s border, a major hue and cry goes up from the entire international community. Recall the gunfight between U.S. troops and suspected Iraqi renegades that accidentally spilled across the Iraqi-Syrian border.



Why is there no outcry when other countries violate our borders? Is there a hidden agenda here?



Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, in a 1997 speech to the Chicago chapter of National Council of La Raza, said that he ?proudly? affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are ?an important ?a very important ? part of this.? In the parlance of the southwest, this is known as ?La Reconquista? ? the reconquest.



The historic model of immigration and assimilation has been torn apart under the onslaught of over 1 million people per year entering our country. By 2030, it?s predicted that the Mexican-born segment of the U.S. population will double to around 18 million.



The United States is no longer a ?melting pot.? If anything, it is beginning to resemble a centrifuge.



We must address both the short-term and long-term threats to our national security.



In the short run, it is important that the U.S. government take decisive steps to seal the U.S.-Mexican border from illegal infiltration. The acts of 9/11 make this an imperative.



In the long run, all Americans should ignore the spurious accusations of racism and imperialism from leftist critics, and resist Mexico?s subversive campaign to sever the American Hispanic community from the rest of the nation ? politically, culturally and physically.



Roger Moore is a Contributing Editor of DefenseWatch. He can be reached at rmoore_dw@yahoo.com.

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Sempers,

Roger

[BLUEHAWK]

Drifter -
Did I understand correctly that there are presently, more or less, 5 million mexicans residing in the U.S., 4.5 million of whom are illegally here? That is to say, there are only 500,000 legal mexican citizens living here? It just seems like a very low number.

- Is that JUST mexicans, or is the number including all hispanics (Central and South Americans), do you know?

- To your knowledge, have there yet been ANY plausible reasonable suggestions put in print or otherwise, which could resolve that war-like condition on our border? The only one I have heard thusfar is to deploy combat troops along the entire border east to west.