The Coming Mexican/American War - is Now!
By Allen
J Duffis
Published: July 20, 2008
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A Short History Lesson for Americans The first Mexican/American War that took place in the mid 19th century, and lasted two years (1846-1848). The war came about as the result of the annexation of Texas by the U.S. in 1845; a succession that the Mexican government refused to recognize. Nor did they accept the subsequent military victory by Texas in 1836 to cement that status. Instead they considered Texas to be a rebel province whose rebellion had to be quelled, and the territory decidedly taken back for Mexico. 
In the United States, the conflict was traditionally referred to simply as the Mexican War. But the Mexicans referred to the conflict as La Intervención Norteamericana ("The North American Intervention"), or La Invasión Estadounidense ("The United States Invasion"), in newspapers and text books as La Guerra de Defensa ("The Defensive War"), or as popular expression among Mexican masses as La Guerra del 47 ("The War of '47"). In the United States the war was a partisan issue, with most Whigs (precursor of the Republican Party) opposing it, and most southern Democrats supporting it. The Democrats were excited by the opportunity to gain territory for the expansion of slavery, without interference from the Mexican government, and they encouraged the war enthusiastically. Unlike in the states of the Southern United States where slavery was legal, Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829. And even though the Mexican government made little effort to enforce the abolition, periodic threats from the Mexican Federal government and the state government of Coahuila y Tejas incensed slave holding Texans. In Mexico, however, the war was considered a matter of national pride. Seeking to better control the border region of Texas, which had few settlers, the Mexican government committed a major error which they would come to regret, by permitting a 'few hundred' U.S. families to settle the area. 
This miscalculation led to settlement of Texas on a scale totally unanticipated by the Mexican government, as its 'inability to control the border' allowed thousands more Americans to settle than had been agreed upon. English-speaking settlers quickly formed a majority in Texas. The historically famous Battle of the Alamo was fought in February and March 1836 in San Antonio Texas. The conflict, a part of the Texas Revolution, was the first step in Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana's attempt to retake the province of Texas after an insurgent army of Texan settlers and adventurers from the United States had driven out all Mexican troops the previous year. Despite the valiant battle put up by its defenders who, while greatly outnumbered, managed to fight off two charges by the Mexican army, the Alamo did fall after a third massive charge by Santa Ana's forces after thirteen days. News of the Alamo's fall prompted many Texas colonists to join Texian army commander Sam Houston's army. On the afternoon of April 21 the Texian army attacked Santa Anna's forces in the Battle of San Jacinto. During the battle many Texians shouted, "Remember the Alamo!" 
On April 21, 1836, the Texans decisively defeated Santa Anna's forces, during which the Texas militia captured Santa Anna himself. The general was released after signing the Treaties of Velasco in which he promised to recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of Texas and the Rio Grande as the boundary between Texas and Mexico. However the Mexican government steadfastly refused to acknowledge these concessions, arguing that Santa Anna was not a representative of Mexico. They defiantly asserted that he had no authority to negotiate on behalf of Mexico, and that he signed away Texas under duress. It is important to note here for historical reference, the Mexican government has never ratified the Treaties of Velasco. The loss of the war with the United States resulted in what has come to be known as the Mexican Cession. Mexico lost the territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México: all ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty de Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Mexicans failed at their bloody quest with the resultant deaths of an estimated 5,800 Mexicans and 13,283 Americans. In their second attempt, this time in the 21st century, they are faring much better. This time, it's the Americans who are losing - at least so far. One hundred and seventy two years have passed since that war initiating Texas succession took place, and one hundred sixty years since the war was ended in triumph. You know, the one the English-speaking American interlopers won. The present status of the American/Mexican border would seriously indicate, that we did not learn from the expensive lesson provided at the territorial expense of the Mexican government some 162 years ago Is there anyone out there reading the above who does not understand where I am going with this? I thought not! So How Did We Get Here...? 
In the 1969 comedy film, "Viva Max", a Mexican General by the name of Maximilian Rodriguez de Santos (without his government's sanction) decides to redress what he feels was a historical black eye for his country and, at the same time, impress his girlfriend. So he marches his army into Texas to take back the Alamo - and he does. At the time, the outrageous concept of the film made for great hilarity: in fact, it is a very funny and well acted film. However, as matters stand at the southern border of the United States at present, when viewed in retrospective comparison to what happened to the Mexican government in 1836, the concept is not so funny.
People of America, we are at war with Mexico again - and this time we are losing! How Do We Define an Alien as Illegal? 
The gist of the forceful flow of objections from bleeding hearts is that, there is no such entity as an - 'illegal alien.' In their minds eye view, we are all 'citizens of the world' and, therefore, entitled to go where we please in complete disregard of territorial borders. This 'pie in the sky' flock should carefully read their history to gain a fuller understanding that this conceptual viewpoint as territorial policy did not work well for the American Indians. To wit, there is the matter of American law that must be taken into account in deciding the final outcome of the issue. LegalityImmigrants are classified as illegal for one of three reasons: entering without authorization or inspection, staying beyond the authorized period after legal entry, or violating the terms of legal entry. 
Under Paragraph (a), Title 8, Section 1325 of the U.S. Code: "Improper Entry By Alien", any citizen of any country other than the United States who
The Legality View from MexicoMexico Pushes for Illegal Immigrant Rights at Cancun Summitby Lourdes Garcia Navarro March 30, 2006 · President Bush is in Cancun, meeting with leaders from Canada and Mexico to discuss trade, security and immigration issues. During his visit, Mexican President Vicente Fox was pushing for the legalization of illegal immigrants in the U.S. I would think that about says it all. Where Do We Go from Here? The answer to that question, at present, has only rhetorical strength. Simply put, we don't have within our country the political determination from our elected representatives to take any positive action whatsoever. And as they mark time in place, America is slowly dissolving into another melting pot, but one that is solely or majority Hispanic in origin. 
Now our border police are faced with the expanding wrath of vicious Mexican Drug Gangs, who have all but killed off and vanquished most of the Mexican Police Force. They are rapidly expanding into the United States with what appears to be the intention to eliminate any opposition from American Border Agents in the same exact manner they employed in Mexico. We also have two Mexican American border agents serving undiserved prison time for shooting at a fleeing Mexican drug runner, who is now in the process of suing them for his injuries - noting that he has served no jail time for his admitted crime. And just recently, a border agent was run down and killed by an escaping Mexican drug dealer, but was released by Mexican authorities due to the failure of the U.S. to bring charges. And what is our Congress doing? Not a damn thing! The flow of illegal aliens into America is fueled by the following factors: Politicians more concerned with protecting their lucrative Senate seats, and not risking insult to a new and rapidly growing political block. This is the reason they have refused to vote in or discuss an amendment that stipulates English as this country's official language. This problem can only be curbed (in both parties) by - senatorial Term Limits. Corporations and Private Industrial Interests (mostly Republican oriented) that are administered by - Dollar Patriots. These individuals care not about patriotism, or their country and heritage, but are concerned only for the - bottom line: they have in essence discovered a way to replace slavery called - Minimum Wage or less. 
An extreme Liberal Democratic Party desirous of the rebuilding of party power, to the level and strength they once enjoyed from the combined membership of unions and the Black Community. Their surge can only be stopped by - the Voting Public. We in America have a rich heritage and an adaptive language that is the envy of the world. And we have a 'right' to preserve it by any means possible. What we don't have is a government, free of special intests, that is either capable or willing to do so. As to our supposed enemies in the world of Islam, if you do manage to invade and take us over in the near future, may I suggest that you have at the ready - a Koran in Spanish. You may damn well need it!
............................................................................................... Reference Data Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall Gringo Meddlers Expelled From Mexico! (Now What About Mexican Meddlers Here?) On May 2nd, the Instituto Nacional de Migración (Mexican INS) expelled 18 Americans from Mexico. These expelled Americans had violated the terms of their Mexican visas by getting involved, albeit in a minor fashion, in Mexican politics – a definite no-no for foreigners in Mexico. The Americans’ offense was to participate in May Day marches in Mexico City and Guadalajara. The ones in Mexico City were college students, visiting with their professor from Washington State. They had joined a group protesting the expropriation of land near Mexico City for a new airport and were waving machetes with the other protestors. They might have gotten away with it, except that some of them were heard on the TV news shouting protest slogans in broken Spanish, which in turn caused Mexican journalists to express outrage. The INM wasted no time. The offenses were committed on May 1st, and by the evening of May 2nd, the offending gringos were on their way back to the U.S.A., their Mexican visas revoked. According to Javier Moctezuma, Mexican subsecretary of Population, Migration and Religious Affairs (part of the Interior Department), the Americans were kicked out because “they violated article 43 of the General Population Law......article 43 has been violated and the standard must be applied.” Article 43 of the General Law of Population (Ley General de Población) states that: “The admission to the country of a foreigner obliges him to strictly comply with the conditions established for him in the immigration permit and the dispositions established by the respective laws.” As an El Universal article puts it, “as any foreigner, they should not meddle in national affairs.” Article 43 is fair. Mexico has a right to regulate its own immigration policy. Foreigners shouldn’t meddle in Mexican affairs. And if they do, the Mexican government has every right to deport them. For me this is not simply theoretical. I, after all, am an American living and working here in Mexico under a legal work permit. I strive to obey Mexican immigration law (and Mexican law in general). And if I don’t, the Mexican government has every right to deport me as well. What a contrast, though, when you look at the other side of the coin. The same Mexican government that expelled 18 Americans for meddling in Mexican politics is engaged in a massive and deliberate intervention in U.S. politics. But, unlike Mexico, the U.S. does absolutely nothing. Mexico’s intervention in U.S. politics goes way beyond a handful of college students waving machetes and chanting slogans. The Mexican government is engaged in a full-scale assault on the sovereignty of the United States of America, as it relates to immigration and assimilation policy, and the grooming of a Fifth Column of Mexican-American citizens who will carry out the policies of Mexico’s government. The Fox administration has made intervention in U.S. internal affairs a national priority.Just recently, Fox spoke on national TV of the U.S. “Hispanic vote” as a tool of Mexican interests. (Americans of Mexican ancestry who love their country must find Fox's attitude particularly insulting). On the very same day that 18 Americans were meddling in Mexican politics by participating in May Day marches, Vicente Fox was making a speech at the annual May Day ceremony. In that speech, Fox continued to attack the U.S. Supreme Court decision which denied back pay to illegal aliens and promised to denounce the U.S. before the Interamerican Human Rights Court and the Organization of American States. When Fox became president, he established a new cabinet position responsible for Mexicans “in the exterior” (i.e., in the U.S.) chaired by dual citizen Juan Hernandez. Hernandez makes regular forays into the United States to meddle in U.S. politics, agitating for, among other things, the inalienable right of illegal aliens to have driver’s licenses. Mexican consulates in the United States are in the vanguard of Mexican intervention. The 47 (!) Mexican consulates in our country function as more than simply diplomatic representatives of the Mexican government. They are active centers of Mexican intervention in U.S. internal affairs. A prime example is the “consular card”, distributed by consulates to illegal aliens with the express purpose of avoiding their deportation. Take the career of only one Mexican diplomat: Teodoro Maus. From 1989 to 2001, with a brief hiatus, Maus was consul general at Atlanta, responsible for Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. But Consul Maus functioned more like a colonial governor than the diplomatic representative of a foreign nation. In 1995, Consul Maus criticized the declaration of English as the official language of Georgia. Later he demanded and received an apology from a radio talk show host who had suggested machine guns and guard towers be placed on the border. In 1996, Maus joined with local Hispanic activists and turned his guns on Norman Bingham, Cobb County Board of Education Chairman. Bingham, you see, had the temerity to exercise his First Amendment free speech rights in Maus’ fiefdom, by stating that Latino construction workers were “uneducated” and “probably illegal aliens”. After demanding Bingham’s ouster, Maus allowed the chairman to retain his position, after of course recanting and issuing a two-page apology. That same year Maus attacked a Smyrna, Georgia law requiring all commercial signs be inEnglish. In 1999, Maus agitated for the issuance of drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, but in this case the Georgia legislature failed to carry out the consul’s edict. That same year, on a Spanish-language radio station, Consul Maus ordered local Hispanics to punish Georgia companies which, in Maus´ view, “mistreat or ignore Hispanic customers”. After stepping down as Consul General, Maus stayed in the U.S. as a private consultant and then president of the Mexican-American Business Chamber. Now Maus is slated to move to Washington as the Mexican government’s liaison on environmental affairs. So you will be hearing more of him. One need not necessarily be in agreement with the targets of Maus´ attacks to realize that something very dangerous is going on here - a foreign diplomat consistently meddling in American internal politics. This goes way beyond waving machetes and chanting slogans. What is truly astonishing though, is that absolutely nothing is done about Mexican diplomatic meddling. No Mexican diplomat has been expelled yet for engaging in activities incompatible with diplomacy–they seem to know this and so we can expect even more brazen behavior in the future. They don’t even have to hide what they do. Certainly, during the Cold War Soviet diplomats carried out espionage and purveyed propaganda, but would never have dared such blatant public intervention in U.S. politics. Yet Mexican diplomats routinely get away with it - because our government lets them. A government that was really concerned with national sovereignty would send meddling diplomats packing. Just like the Mexican media said when the gringos were expelled – “any foreigner... should not meddle in national affairs.” Allan Wall is an American citizen who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1991. Presently employed as an English instructor, Allan has legal permission from the Mexican government to live and work in Mexico under the rubric of an FM-2 migration Title: Should we try Mexico's immigration law? Source: (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)URL Source: http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm? action=detail&pk=MEXICO-04-24-06 Author: By J. MICHAEL WALLER, The Providence Journal
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