More on What Mexico Would Do...

A few posts back, I mentioned a column by Michael Reagan that showcased some enlightening excerpts from the constitution of Mexico that showed quite clearly how Mexico treats its foreigners. I have now found another article that you just have to read.

One of my favorite sources of information is City Journal. It is a quarterly publication that is produced by the Manhattan Institute. "Quarterly" means, of course, that once their latest edition comes out, I have to wait another three months for their next one; but boy is it worth it. Being a quarterly publication means that the authors of its articles have time to research and get in-depth. The Spring 2006 issue of City Journal was just released, and I found one humdinger of an article about illegal immigration written by one of their staff writers, Heather MacDonald. Below are some of the juicier passages from the article. Check this out:

Fine. If Mexico wants to dictate our immigration policy to us, let’s follow their example to the letter. That example is particularly relevant on this further day of protests demanding amnesty for illegals. Among the demonstrators in at least 60 cities nationwide will undoubtedly be thousands of border lawbreakers. What would Mexico do? The answer is easy: deport them on the spot. In 2002, a dozen American college students, in Mexico legally, participated peacefully in an environmental protest against a planned airport outside of Mexico City. They swiftly found themselves deported as law-breakers for interfering in Mexico’s internal affairs...

It is particularly delicious to imagine what would happen if American students in Mexico ran the American flag up a flag pole over an upside down Mexican flag, as students in a Southern California high school did last month. An international crisis! Each participant would be promptly ejected and possibly the American ambassador as well. When President Ernesto Zedillo tried to revise Mexican textbooks in the 1990s to be more favorable toward U.S. foreign policy, Mexico’s pundits denounced him as a traitor. Yet Mexican consuls in the U.S. work mightily to disseminate Mexican textbooks in U.S. schools and they have raised not a peep of remonstrance against Mexican protesters carrying signs such as THIS IS STOLEN LAND and WE DIDN’T CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED US during the mass demonstrations last month...

Then there’s the question of whom we should favor in our immigration policy. Accept only the economic cream of other countries. Mexico’s immigration law grants preferences to scientists and other professionals likely to contribute to “national progress.” Peasants with third-grade educations aren’t high on their wish list; in fact they do everything they can to keep them out. Local observers have often alleged Mexico’s brutal treatment of impoverished Central Americans crossing its borders. Yet according to Mexican officials, millions of uneducated, unskilled campesinos are just what the American economy needs...

The hypocrisy of this whole situation continues to become more and more realized, and it shows. A new Zogby poll shows that all these demonstrations have backfired. The American people, rather than being sympathetic to the illegals' cause, are instead turning against it. We Americans may sometimes be an ignorant mushy-headed bunch, but we are not yet quite ready to commit national suicide.

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