AZTLAN
"Native-born American Hispanics feel like strangers in their own land."
Charles Truxillo,
Professor, University of New Mexico
Under the
euphuism 'Hispanic Homeland' and 'Nation of Aztlan,' activists from numerous
organizations including Mexican American Legal Defense and La Raza (The
Race) activists are attempting to annex large portions of SW United States
to Mexico. "Republica del Norte," the Republic of the North, which
would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is
"an inevitability" says Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New
Mexico. He further states the new "Hispanic Homeland" should be
brought into being "by any means necessary."
The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education
Fund (MALDEF), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and the National Immigration Forum
(NIF) whose names imply grassroots organizations reflecting the will
of American Hispanics, do not represent mainstream American Hispanic
opinion. Rather, they speak only in their own best interests,
favoring the mass immigration that gives them more constituents they can
then profess to represent. Polls show that Hispanic-Americans,
like all Americans, support stronger enforcement of our immigration laws.
A 'Hispanic
Homeland' could be written off as the work of extremists were it not for
wide-spread support by Mexicans. A June 2002 Zogby poll of Mexicans
found that a substantial majority of Mexican citizens believe that
southwestern America is rightfully the territory of Mexico and that Mexicans
do not need the permission of the U.S. to enter. The poll, a people search of appropriate persons, found that
58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "The territory of the
United States' southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Zogby said 28
percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren't sure.
Many media and political
elites still naively think immigration is unconditionally good and they do
nothing to reverse the negative aspects of immigration. Those Americans need to wake up quickly!
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of
any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from
within."
General Douglas MacArthur
Chicano Nationalism, Revanchism and the Aztlan Myth
Professor Predicts 'Hispanic
Homeland'
Mexicans Have Plans for the
American Southwest
Race, California's Final
Solution
Mexicans: Southwest U.S. is
ours
Poll: US-Mexico border
opinions differ
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