December 19, 2005

Vicente Fox lectures America: don't forget immigrant roots

America's amigo, like our leader, has now become a parody, offering us the following canard:

"[The proposed wall on the Mexican border is] a very bad sign, which does not speak well of a country that is proud of being democratic, proud of being a country of immigrants... The vast majority of the population of the United States, when we look at their roots, are immigrants who have arrived from all over the world and who have constructed that great nation. That's why they can't deny who they are."

We are indeed a land of immigrants. Because of that, does that mean we have to let anyone come here and join us? Obviously not. Because if we did, we'd have a population larger than India in a decade or two.

So, Vicente, that's why we have immigration laws. See, we need to manage the flow of future immigrants. In order to make the best life for the descendents of past immigrants, we need to make sure that those who come here will be good for the country.

That's why we need to make sure that people who come here don't, for instance, think that our land rightfully belongs to some other country. And, we need to make sure that those who come here are going to be full Americans, and not just Mexicans who live in the U.S. Unfortunately, the Mexican government teaches its citizens that the U.S. southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico, and it does its level best to make sure that those "immigrants" it sends us stay true to their homeland. Now, surely, there are many Mexicans who emigrate here and give up allegiances to their former homeland. However, most of the illegal aliens who Mexico allows to come here do not fit that description.

So, Vicente, is there anyway you could look after your own citizens instead of sending them northward and then issuing pathetic pleas to emotionalism? Thanks.

Posted to Immigration2005b at December 19, 2005 06:18 AM

Comments

There is a contradiction in Fox's rehash of old nation-of-non-identity excuses for aggression. 'Betrayal' of a tradition of betrayal, is not itself a betrayal, but a return to loyalty. A series of betrayals with decades of momentum behind them, do not thereby become that to which we owe loyalty. Those to whom we owe loyalty are the citizens and the net taxpayers, when they're attacked by foreigners. We do not owe loyalty to the Mexican aggressor, and never will, regardless of how often corrupt politicians pretend that we have a tradition of putting the foreigners' wish for freedom for aggression, ahead of the net taxpayers' right to freedom from aggression.

Posted by: John S Bolton at December 19, 2005 06:37 PM

Hey Fox, Shut Up and mind your own business. Thankfully, he won't be Pres. for much longer.

Posted by: DG at December 19, 2005 09:57 PM