“Madame Speaker, it is Mexico on Lines 1, 2, 3, 4, …"

No No No, Your Fingers, JUST Your Fingers

Let your fingers do the walking, and then utter the utterly fatuous phrase “I support comprehensive immigration reform.” Herein lies the crux of Chapter One, entitled “One Minute and Five Words”, of a ten-part, ten week South of the Border marketing thrust aimed at inciting Mexicans to pressure America into wholesale dominion submission.

This first episode features actual cellular telephonic dialing whilst the numbers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Florida Senator and Chairman of the Republican National Committee Mel Martinez are delivered in verbal slow motion. All the better to serve as audio and visual aides (for those apparently barely able to stride and chew Stride simultaneously) to entice citizens of Mexico to contact leading members of the United States Congress to lobby them, and thereby us, on how we need to fundamentally change how we address the enforcement of our shared border to better suit their desires.

These bits of advertising piffle will be aired throughout Mexico, and most of the United States, in Spanish on Univision Television. The mission’s fearless leader is former Office for Mexicans Abroad Chairman (under former Mexican Presidente Vicente Fox) Juan Hernandez.

This Office is described on Hernandez’s website as having been established by the Fox Administration “to serve and dignify the 24 million whom President Fox has called heroes -- the countrymen who live in foreign lands”. Heroes, indeed; as American dollars delivered via Western Union remain Mexico’s chief import, and as long as exporting their unemployed continues to serve as their sole economic reform, one can understand why this agency is so vital to the ongoing middling fortunes of our invasionary neighbor.

We should consider ourselves quite fortunate that Hernandez deigned to deliver via email an English version of the first installment so that we Gringos will know what is about to hit us.

Irrelevant, Apparently

(Essayist’s Note: I received a copy of this electronic missive because I happen to know Juan. He is a nice guy, and I enjoy engaging with him, but his heightened and condescending disregard for our national sovereignty is at best merely nauseating. Oh, and he was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and matriculated all the way through to a Ph.D. within the friendly confines of the United States.)

The tone of the email leaves no doubt that the intended target audience is Mexicans. “Here is an English version of one of those segments” certainly makes it sound as if the only place this particular adaptation will be running is in my Inbox.

Si Se Amnistía

The video’s sentiment is merely more of the warmed over same we have been getting for years from the likes of our Presidente, George W. Bush, and Senadors John McCain and Ted Kennedy. The push to rally Mexicans to the cause is but the logical next evolutionary step in the process. And the thinking is just as flawed now as it was then.

“Comprehensive immigration reform” implies the current laws are broken; in actuality, the laws are fine, outstanding even. What is broken is the (lack of) enforcement thereof.

To wave a wand and grant citizenship to 12-20 million unassimilated, poorly educated invaders solves a great deal for Mexico, but ensconces into permanent place the crushing of the United States' social services network. I will gladly pay the $0.09 cent increase in the price of a head of lettuce that results from the new prevailing wage being paid to legal citizens doing the picking, so as to not foot the $22,000 per annum (as of 2002) cost of each illegal alien to our education, health and welfare systems.

Los Angeles Street Art (187: LAPD Code for Murder)

This tally does not even take into consideration the incalculable damage done by the percentage that has breached our borders to murder, rape and steal whilst States-side. And, of course, how many of those here in violation are Islamic Jihadists? If you can not tell us, Juan, do not ask us to simultaneously grant them and your constituency citizenship.

And, as I have explained previously, even the ones who only broke one law to get here do not, for the most part, wish for citizenship. Should you doubt me, merely ask them.

“The only thing we want to do is work and bring back money to build a house and keep living in our own country.”  

Yet, despite the new Democrat majority and a complicit President, there will not be illegal alien absolution forthcoming from Congress. Thankfully, there are still enough rational members who stand opposed to the strip mining of the rule of law and our economic viability and security.

Mexico and Juan Hernandez, Taking Aim

Mark Krikorian (of the Center for Immigration Study)'s plan of attrition deportation is the only solution that does not kill the Golden Goose (that would be the American economy). We need only enforce the laws on the books, and the border on the maps, and when the jobs for illegal aliens go away, so too will the illegal aliens.

If a society is to remain solvent, salient or even sane, the rule of law must not only be maintained, it as a concept must be respected. Issuing a blanket pass to those who are in inherent violation of the laws of the land is wantonly destructive to a nation already heaving with too many cracks from too many other unrelated yet ideologically similar breaches of righteousness and rationality.

I think, Juan, that you know all of this, which is why you are pitching this south of the border in question, where it is of course already extraordinarily popular, rather than north of it where you acknowledge the true persuasive work needs to be done. Calling for U.S. Congressional action in Spanish in Juarez is a bit self-defeating, is it not?

It is also highly revealing.