Mexico influencing United States

Posted December 16, 2008

Regarding Sylvia Smith’s column, “Lugar’s bill aids immigrant children” (Dec. 7):

According to the 2000 Census, the U.S. population had increased by about 13 percent since 1990, but people who identified themselves as Mexican had grown by 53 percent. Although many Mexican-Americans are patriotic, during the massive demonstrations in 2006, many protesters waved Mexican flags and pressured the U.S. with immigration demands identical to Mexico’s.

In 1997, Ernest Zedillo, then-president of Mexico, said, “I have 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 it.”

President-elect Barack Obama has already nominated a number of people very sympathetic to Mexico’s immigration demands to top Cabinet positions.

Is Mexico using both legal and illegal migration to influence our policies and elections and eventually to extend the Mexican nation?

YEH LING-LING 
Executive Director
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America Oakland, Calif.

---

 |   | Current Site Visitors ->

---