MEXICAN DUPLICITY -- Mark Andrew Dwyer

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Originally published in the March 21, 2004 issue of the

MEXICAN DUPLICITY
March 23, 20004

On February 29, 2004, the Mexican consul in Utah, Ms. Patricia Dueler, showed us a typical dose of hypocrisy that we've been getting regularly from Mexican government. On one hand, she said that (quotations from [1]) "she was particularly upset over claims by an anti-immigration group in Utah that the Mexican government encourages its citizens to illegally enter the United States," which she characterized as the "false and unfounded" assertion. On the other hand, she said: "I don't understand why these people hit low, why they bother the Mexican people. [...] We are not terrorists. We are people who come to the United States to work hard," which only confirms that she not only supports illegal migration of Mexicans into the U.S. and sees nothing wrong with it (as it were not done with blatant violation of the American border and the immigration law), but denies the right of Americans to enforce their national border and the immigration laws in their own country.

Well, once we know what's consul Dueler's stance on truth, her statement regarding non-acceptance of Mexican-issued matricula consular cards in lieu of valid passport and U.S. visa that she characterized as "promoting hatred against Mexican people, " deserves one reply. It's pure projection of many Mexican activists' state of mind on those that they hate: Americans that are serious about this country, its borders, and the law of the land. Obviously, MEChA and company is a notorious source of anti-American rhetoric (see [2]), but one has to look no further than to any standard textbook for "Chicano History" to find a huge supply of Mexican hatred against the United States of America.

Take, for instance, "Occupied America" by Rodolfo Acuna (Pearson Longman 2003), one of the "best selling" textbooks used across the U.S. in public colleges and universities. The book, whose earliest edition (Canfield Press 1972) was subtitled "The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation" (from "Anglos", of course), is full of revisionist, albeit megalomaniac, claims and contempt of legitimacy o the American-Mexican border, as well as anti-American hatred. Factual inaccuracies and errors (an example below) strongly suggest a lack of scholarly scrutiny by its publisher. The author calls the Mexican-American war that Mexico waged and lost in 1848 "as vicious as that of Hitler's invasion of Poland" as if he had an idea what that invasion was. (Mexico was a NAZI Germany sympathizer). The only dated map in entire book shows "Republic of Mexico" of 1821 (although there were no "Republic of Mexico" in 1821, just "The Mexican Empire, see [3]) stretching from today's California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Texas down to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (although the Central American countries were annexed by the Emperor Mexico, Augustin de Iturbide, in 1822), with the center of the "Republic" located in what's known today as Colorado and New Mexico. The author refers to Texas Revolution of as the "so-called revolution", and to "gringos" that don't agree that American Southwest is a Mexican territory as "nativists". (For a brief account of facts that debunk the myth of Southwestern U.S. being a "historic" Mexican land, see [4].) The author claims that "Anglo control of Mexico's northwest territory [Southwestern U.S., that is] is an occupation" and that "Chicanos are not able to obtain justice because they are controlled [by the U.S.] and living in captivity" as if American government forcibly relocated (tens of) millions of Mexicans to the U.S. According to [5], at a MEChA conference in 1996, Acuna referred to "Anglos" as "Nazis". "Right now you are in the Nazi United States of America," he said.

If there is hatred in today's American-Mexican relations, then it mostly belongs to the Mexican party. It has been a result of Mexico's 175 years old unfulfilled desire to annex the territories once conquered or claimed by Spain, as well as irrational belief of many Mexicans that should "General" Santa Anna's rebellious army manage to submit California, Arizona, and Texas to control of Mexico City by the year 1848 they would have been as prosperous as they are now as parts of the U.S. Duplicitous Mexican officials may claim, as they always do, that they are not encouraging their people to illegally enter the U.S. and that they are only helping the migrants who want to work hard in this country. But the truth is that all they want is to complete the conquest of what was never theirs (except, perhaps, on the paper). They treat millions of Mexican illegal aliens as their army that is supposed to materialize their plans and get impatient when American "xenophobes" and "nativists" resist it. For those who still doubt that that's the case, just go to any Chicano Studies Department and see for yourself all the hatred they are preaching in their revisionist "history" courses.

REFERENCES

[1] Mexican consul, LDS Church denounce ID card bill
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15228&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 <http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15228&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>

[2] Blood on Your Hands
http://www.aztlanunderground.com/lyrics.htm#Blood%20on%20your%20Hands

[3] Mexican Empire ()
http://fotw.unislabs.com/flags/mx_emp.html

[4] NBC All but Ceded California to Mexico
http://americanpatrol.com/GUESTCOLUMNS/DWYER/NBC-CedeCA_ToDitch030825.html

[5] Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Aztlan
http://www.americanpatrol.org/MECHA/ChangAcunaAztlan020417.html

FURTHER READINGS

"Reconquista": The Mexican Plan to Take the Southwest
http://www.barnesreview.org/The__Reconquista_-Mexico_s_Dre/the__reconquista_-mexico_s_dre.html

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