Allan Wall
Guess Who’s Planning To Lobby Your Congressman?
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April 15, 2004
Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall
Guess Who’s Planning To Lobby Your Congressman?
http://www.vdare.com/awall/lobbyistas.htm

As Americans, we are raised to believe that we can make a difference, and that our leaders are accountable to us.

We believe that our senators and representatives in Congress should listen to what we have to say.

When you try to influence them, however, you find that it’s no piece of cake. You pour your heart and soul into writing your representative or senator, and more likely than not, you receive a form letter providing no evidence whatsoever that your message was even read.

Yes, I know, they have a lot of things to attend to. It’s not realistic to expect them to respond to each letter personally.

Besides attending to lowly constituents like you and me, they must also attend to political action committees, their party leadership and lobbyists from corporations and private advocacy groups.

And now, we constituents must also compete for their attention with… lobbyists representing Mexico and the Central American nations.

Mexico already enjoys an undue influence over U.S. immigration policy and its diplomatic personnel already meddle brazenly in internal U.S. politics.

Mexican matricula consular cards enjoy widespread acceptance throughout U.S. territory, where they serve as de facto legalization documents.

Some Latino elected officials in the U.S. openly function as agents of the Mexican government. And with the rise of dual citizenship, Mexicans can vote in both countries.

Mexico has even meddled in our military in a brazen attempt to win the loyalty of Mexican-American soldiers.

And the Mexican government is becoming a participant in our legal system. When it didn’t like a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Mexico negotiated with our own Labor Department to limit its application.

In the recent DeCoster case in Maine, the Mexican Foreign Ministry (SRE) was a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by 900 Mexican workers, who, in an out of court settlement were paid 3.2 million dollars. The Mexican government hailed it as an “important precedent.” [Indemnizan en EU a mexicanos maltratados, , February 15th, 2004, El Universal]

And—surprise!—the Mexican government is promoting that big class action lawsuit by illegal aliens against supermarket chains in California.

The next step for Mexican hegemony over U.S. immigration and citizenship policy: lobbying your senator and congressperson.

And you thought they were representing your state and district?

Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez, on a recent two-day visit to El Salvador, announced that

“Mexico and Central America will join forces to lobby U.S. legislators to pass U.S. President George W. Bush’s immigration reform proposal... The minister said Mexico and Central American nations would jointly lobby U.S. senators and congressmen to approve a reform to allow undocumented immigrants working as field hands to regularize their status in the United States.” [ Derbez says he'll lobby U.S. Congress on reform, El Universal, March 10, 2004].

What do you know? Several months back, I wrote here of “the Mexican government’s intention to lobby strongly to support current immigration measures pending in the U.S. Congress.”

But now the Mexican Foreign Minister impressed on his Salvadoran counterpart, Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila that the countries should team up, to “try, even during an election year in that country [the U.S.] to see some modifications of that law approved.”

Great. Not only are both Bush and Kerry, the two major party Presidential candidates, open border fanatics, but also Mexico and the Central American countries will be hounding your alleged representatives in Congress to open the border some more.

Speaking in San Salvador, Derbez even felt confident enough to announce that the Bush amnesty proposal (known here at VDARE.com as the “Bush Betrayal”) “would not apply to just Mexicans, but would also benefit immigrants of different nationalities.”

Derbez is making promises on our behalf to all Central Americans.

It’s as if someone invited himself into your house, then proceeded to invite his other friends over for a party – at your expense.

So where will your senators and representative stand on these issues? Will they listen to you and your fellow voters?

Or the leaders of foreign countries?

Patriotic Americans want to know.

American citizen Allan Wall lives and works legally in Mexico, where he holds an FM-2 residency and work permit, but serves six weeks a year with the Texas Army National Guard, in a unit composed almost entirely of Americans of Mexican ancestry. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his FRONTPAGEMAG.COM articles are archived here; his website is here. Readers can contact Allan Wall at allan39@prodigy.net.mx
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