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Jennings: Let's Just Annex Mexico
Written by Jean Shaw
Thursday, January 15, 2004

     Marianne M. Jennings, writing for JewishWorldReview.com, proposes
that America adopt a new strategy for dealing with illegal immigration:



 annex Mexico.


     Judicial fiats, socialist blood coursing through the veins of INS
officials, and hoity-toity journalists keep the steady stream of human
traffic coming across the U.S./Mexico border.  Illegal immigrants
(pardon, ''undocumented aliens'') inundate the Border States.


     Let's recap.  Government mandates on hospitals have them absorbing



costs of ''emergency'' care for illegals who use ER rooms as their
primary care physicians.  LA County spent $350 million for illegals'
care at hospitals and free clinics last year.


     Public schools officials cannot ask, tell, or daydream of parents'



status.  Despite voter referenda, schools continue instruction in
Spanish.  Arizona House Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, a fiscal conscience on
illegal immigration, who endures charges of racism despite his Mexican
national father, estimates that Arizona spends about $2 billion on
their health and education.


     Courts have slapped the wrists of cities and their police officers



who question Latino men standing on the street corners at 5 AM, oh,
just down from agricultural fields, because the assumption that some
undocumented aliens might be among them is race-based and, ergo,
unconstitutional.  So, Arizona police stop Hans and other chaps in
leder hosen to see if perhaps some coyotes are conning Swedes in
Nogales for a sneak across the border.


     President Vincente Fox visited Arizona and demanded that we make
immigration easier.  As Jay Leno says, ''How?  By installing moving
walkways?''  Former Gov. Gray Davis issued an edict giving driver's
licenses to everyone.  Now President Bush has proposed a crackerjack
amnesty plan for illegal immigrants and a ''guest worker'' plan.
Granting amnesty to those who have tiptoed across the border may not be



the get-tough signal our free-service-Nirvana needs.  Save us the
suspense, decades of debate, and budgetary surprises.  Let's just annex



Mexico.


     The debate on illegal immigration remains wholly unsatisfying
because those who are most vocal know very little of the reality of
living in a border state.  The Wall Street Journal's pro-immigration
posture springs from its vision of immigrant programmers and engineers
from India and China who give us Intel inside.  The strange bedfellows
with the Journal in this debate are compassionate conservatives who now



offer Mexicans ''jobs Americans don't want.''


     Americans don't want the jobs because, with skills and education,
they earn wages that afford them an above-poverty living.  The recent
Wal-Mart raids for its use of illegal workers in its janitorial
services subcontractors show that our low prices on Cheeto's do come
with social costs.  Immigrants, not required to learn the language by
''compassionate'' courts and schools, are sentenced to a
Wal-Mart-wages-life in the underclass.  They are segregated into
barrios, shielded from assimilation.  They recreate the very society
they tried to escape: classes and a caste system in which they could
not get ahead.


     This life of poverty does not just drain our health and government



systems; it breeds crime.  The crime rates in the barrios are so high
that Arizona's prison population is 10-20% ''guest workers,''
documented and otherwise.  Poverty creates a multigenerational
assimilation problem.  Four of every 10 Hispanics in the U.S. do not
finish high school.


     Economist Milton Friedman's warning for three decades remains
unheeded: open immigration cannot work in a welfare state.  The wave of



immigration at the turn of the 20th century was different.  Among the
many questions immigrants faced at Ellis Island (after the health
screenings) were: How much money do you have?  Do you have a job?  If
not, do you have a sponsor?  Mr. Bush places great faith in present-day



INS screening to curb the problem.  How will the same folks who granted



visa renewals to two of the dead 9-11-01 hijackers police this program
for 15 million people?


     Economic screening in a pre-New Deal had inherent veracity because



there was no fallback position for those who lied about work or
sponsors.  Those immigrants were left to survive on their own from
their moment of entry.  Harsh?  Following the Ellis Island wave of
immigration, just one generation passed before children of those
immigrants were fully integrated into American society.  They spoke the



language and headed to college.  By World War II, they were
mainstreamed.


     Mr. Bush touts national security concerns.  He promises to
document who is here so that we can then focus on real threats.  Right.



 Is this not the wrong border?  Jorge bin Laden?  Folks named Santos
and Manuel are not hijacking American Airlines' jets.  Mr. Bush insults



our intelligence.  Worse, he insults the noble people of Mexico.  In
pandering for votes veiled with national security promises, he ensures
their dependence on a welfare state.  Finish it all in one fell swoop,
never to worry about the borders again.  Annex Mexico

rickpicks@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thursday, March 30, 2006
> Annex Mexico NOW
>
> America is under invasion by illegal aliens from Mexico. Many of them
> are nice people who cross the border out of desperation, because they
> want to feed their families. I am empathetic. I don't want them or
> their families to go wanting. The problem is their rotten government
> back in Mexico. It is unbelievably corrupt, inept and inefficient. What
>
>
>
> the people of Mexico need is a modern Constitutional Republic, with
> laws that are enforced (unlike say, our immigration laws) and
> corruption swiftly and publicly punished.
>
>
> However, there are other Mexican nationals who cross the border because
>
>
>
> they want to reverse history and take back land that once belonged to
> Mexico. They see our teaming freeways and gleaming skyscrapers and want
>
>
>
> to remake it in the image of Tijuana. So they come here with contempt
> for our immigration laws, hold huge rallies and wave Mexican flags, the
>
>
>
> flag of the country they are loyal to. They do not come here to
> assimilate, to become American. They come here to become an acid that
> weakens the cultural mortar that holds any nation together: a common
> language, a common culture, defined borders. Many of them are quite
> upfront about the fact that their goal is to reclaim the American
> Southwest for Meh-hi-co.
>
>
> Sorry muchachas, I have a better idea. We annexed the Southwest from
> Mexico in the 1840's and now it's time to finish the job. Let's annex
> the rest of Mexico and call it "lower California." Let's arrest their
> corrupt leaders and hold them for trial. Let's fire every corrupt
> Mexican cop and two-bit politician and start over from scratch.
>
>
> Mexico is a country with immense national resources, and we could use
> them, especially the oil. When it is Lower California instead of
> Meh-hi-co, we can then process the oil as American crude. The good
> people of Lower California are hard workers who have suffered far too
> long from the poverty of their former 3rd World Country that is now the
>
>
>
> South end of El Colosso del Norte. We will flood our new state with
> industry, investment and jobs. We will use the natural resources to
> build modern roads and buildings. People will no longer have to swim
> the Rio Grande or traverse Saguaro forests in burning deserts to get to
>
>
>
> America. Because they will already be here!
>
>
> However, we will still insist they learn proper English. They'll need
> it to read their credit card statements and tax bills. Welcome to the
> USA folks.
>
>
> rickpi...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Some nice beachfront property
> > I THINK I have solved the immigration problem: We should pull out of
> > Iraq and invade Mexico. Afterward, we can annex it and make it into the
> >
> >
> > 51st state.
> >
> >
> > This would make all Mexican citizens into American citizens, thus
> > solving the question of what to do about all of our illegal immigrants.
> >
> >
> >
> > These new Americans would be free to travel anywhere, and we would not
> > have worry about illegal immigrants coming from Mexico anymore.
> >
> >
> > Our southern border would become Guatemala and Belize, which would be a
> >
> >
> >
> > much shorter distance to patrol or protect with a wall if the
> > government was so inclined.
> >
> >
> > In addition, the United States would pick up some nice beach-front
> > property with the addition of Cancun and Cozumel.
> > 
> > 
> > JOSEPH R. PELLERIN Texas City