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Is President Bush Being Outfoxed?
August 15, 2001 by: Phyllis Schlafly
When demonstrators displayed anti-American signs against our
President while traveling to Europe last month, we could brush it off
as a bunch of street radicals getting their kicks. But it is an insult
when a foreign head of state comes to the heart of the United States
and attacks our laws while his audience waves foreign flags.
Mexican President Vicente Fox spoke in Milwaukee on July 17 to
2,300 people at a meeting sponsored by the National Council of La
Raza, a Hispanic-U.S. group. He should be reminded to mind his
manners and show a decent respect for our laws when he visits the
United States.
Attacking "current immigration policies," Fox demanded "an
integrated Mexican-U.S. labor market." He demanded that U.S. laws
be rewritten to bring about open borders between the U.S. and
Mexico, that we give illegal aliens U.S. driver's licenses (even though
they can't read the road signs and don't have insurance), and that we
give Mexican illegals university education and other taxpayer-paid
benefits.
Specifically, Fox said, "Our goal is to legalize migrant flows between
our two countries." Saying that "migration should be an option," he
demanded that we exempt Mexico from limits on immigration.
Fox called for full legalization of illegal aliens, exempting Mexico from
U.S. limits on immigration and work visas, giving Mexicans a guest
worker program that uses temporary work visas, and allowing illegal
Mexican aliens to get U.S. driver's licenses and in-state college
tuition rates.
Fox also demanded that the United States increase foreign aid to
Mexico. He didn't offer to give us anything in return except poor,
uneducated, unemployed Mexicans who can't find jobs in Mexico's
corrupt socialist economy.
If Fox wants to show friendship for the United States, he could offer
to distance Mexico from the criminal price-fixing cartel called OPEC,
which props up oil prices so much higher than they would be in a
competitive market. Mexico isn't a member of OPEC but acts as
though it is by promising Saudi Arabia that it will refuse to sell the
United States more oil when OPEC punishes us by production
cutbacks.
Fox is asking for more U.S. financial handouts to bolster his pathetic
economy. But Mexico won't allow U.S. investment in the Mexican oil
industry.
In Milwaukee and at other rallies in this country, Fox tried to show
Americans that Mexicans are a potent political pressure group. He is
also trying to build a partnership between legal Mexican immigrants
and the illegals.
Fox had a tantrum after both Houses of Congress last week passed
legislation to require Mexican trucks entering the U.S. to be
inspected and meet the same safety and insurance regulations
required of U.S. and Canadian trucks. Fox said on August 2 that, if
these regulations go into effect, he will close the border to U.S.
truckers!
If Bush gives in to Fox's tantrum, Bush may get caught in an
embarrassment similar to the Illinois truck scandal. Nine people have
been killed and 50 injured in truck accidents after licenses were
corruptly sold to drivers who couldn't pass the test in English.
Fox promotes the concept of "dual citizenship." Every immigrant who
becomes a naturalized American, takes an oath to "absolutely and
entirely renounce all allegiance" to any foreign state. Mexico is
openly fighting this fundamental principle by passing a law
recognizing "dual citizenship." For example, on July 9 a former illegal
alien now naturalized American, Andres Bermudez, was elected
mayor of Jerez, a city in Mexico, declaring himself a "candidate of
two nations."
If the Bush Administration believes in the rule of law, Bermudez's
U.S. citizenship should be revoked immediately. Dual citizenship is
an insurmountable barrier to assimilating naturalized citizens into the
American culture and turning immigrants from all over the world into
"e pluribus unum."
The Bush and Fox administrations are now negotiating a broad
agreement on immigration policy changes that the two presidents are
expected to sign in Washington in September. Fox went public with
his accelerated demands in order to force Bush to acquiesce.
Fox's foreign minister said that Mexico will not sign any border
agreement that fails to include amnesty for 3 to 4 million Mexicans
illegally living in the United States. "It's the whole enchilada or
nothing," Jorge Castaneda told journalists in Phoenix.
Vicente Fox's speeches are not the words of a friendly neighbor.
They are words that resonate with the radicals whose goal is
Mexico's conquest of southwest United States by overwhelming us
with the sheer numbers of undocumented Mexicans coming north.
Foxy enough to avoid the A-word Amnesty, Fox is nevertheless
trying to play U.S. politics to achieve that goal. He apparently thinks
he can get George W. Bush to adopt the ridiculous assumption that
circumventing our immigration laws will persuade Mexican-Americans
to vote Republican.
In 1986 we amnestied 3 million of 5 million illegal aliens from several
countries, promising that it would be a one-time-only amnesty. The
result was the number of illegals increased to 8 million, and
Americans don't want a repeat of that mistake.
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