Senator Kennedy & Senatress Feinstein Discuss Immigration 'Reform'Picture Source: AP Images
September 13th, 1847, Mexico City, United States Army General Winfield Scott enters the capital of Mexico, sounding an overwhelming victory for the still fledgling Army of the United States. This victory would lead to a treaty that granted the United States of America its greatest goal of a contiguous transoceanic nation, and with it, a 1,951 mile border between the victorious United States and its vanquished southern neighbor.
In the over 150 years since the conclusion of the American-Mexican war, America and Mexico have never neared any semblance of international camaraderie. Likewise, the border carved out in the Treaty of Guadaloupe-Hildalgo and the Gadsden Purchase Mexico, has been violated constantly since the moment it was created. One only need look in the past one hundred years, with the invasions by Pancho Villa, the Mexican Army, and countless illegal immigrants, which conservative estimates number at approximately 25 million. I’m sure that my inclusion of the Mexican Army may surprise people, no I’m not talking about the Alamo (technically, that was Mexican territory), I am instead referring to the 115 invasions of United States territory by the Mexican army between 1996 and 2004 (source, washingtontimes.com, and freerepublic.com). What do the statistics of 25 million illegals and more than 115 incursions have in common? They are both massive red flags (perhaps with a little white, and green as well) that neither the Mexican people, nor its military, nor even the Mexican government respect, or have ever respected, the border with the United States. While unacceptable, this lack of respect is understandable. The ‘Mexican State’ is so decrepit and politically, economically, socially, and culturally bankrupt that they now exist solely as a parasite state to the U.S.
The relationship between Mexico and the United States has been gradually reaching a boil these past few years. Two weeks ago, with the introduction of the new Amnesty Immigration bill to Capitol Hill, it became all too clear that even the Government of the United States no longer respects the United States-Mexican border. What is even more unsettling, is that this Amnesty Bill may have passed unnoticed under the noses of the American people had the New Media, Talk Radio, not brought it to the attention of the masses. Millions of letters phone calls made to congressmen by their constituents later, the Amnesty Bill, championed by Ted Kennedy and Trent Lott alike, was shot down.
However it appears that the bill was shot down like an illegal trying to cross the border into the United States, that is, not shot at all.
The Amnesty Bill Horror Two: Spawn of Ted, is back with a vengeance this week, and yesterday the senate passed a cloture vote 64-35, thereby providing the proverbial “lighting bolt that brought the monster to life” to the Amnesty movement. Had the cloture vote failed, the bill would have been dead, at least until the next blockbuster political season, but instead the millions of cries of constituents to their representatives went unheard, and the debate on the bill continues.
Had this bill been a strictly liberal supported bill, it would simply be seen as another round of political battles for the soul of the nation between our two stagnant major political parties. What makes matters worse, is that this is not a strictly Republican v. Democrat bill, indeed even George W. Bush, anti-Christ to Liberals, and embarrassment to conservatives, champions the amnesty bill, and is using all his remaining political capital to see it through. As a result of this betrayal of conservatism, George W. Bush and his big government, big spending “compassionate” conservative cohorts have ushered in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party, but that is a story for a different day.
It isn’t often that a bill of this magnitude, of this importance to the fate of the Nation falls into the laps of the Country-Club Congress, we all owe it to ourselves and to the sacred bond of a representative republic and its people to stand up and take an active roll in the killing of this bill.
After, it was Winfield Scott that entered Mexico City, not Santa Anna riding down Pennsylvania Avenue, shouldn’t we act like victors?
Ad Augusta Per Angusta
