Elect Yantis Green

Mexican President Felipe Calderon must not be a student of history. 

His attack on U.S. immigration policy and Arizona’s new illegal immigration law ignores history, protocol, and ultimately, national soverignty.  Calderon views illegal immigration as a ‘migration’ problem coupled with the demand for drugs in the U.S. and the flow of illegal guns and cash from the U.S. to Mexico; in his view, all of Mexico’s problems are our fault. 

Calderon says Mexicans “migrate” to the U.S. to earn more money than they can in his country and that’s our fault.  He decrees that the demand for drugs in the U.S. is the only reason drug lords are so powerful and so vilent in his country.  He also dictates that our legally purchased guns are somehow making their way across our southern border and killing innocent Mexican citizens.  Calderon seems to want his cake and eat it too.  He seemingly wants the U.S. to ’reform’ immigration policy (again, he uses the term migration) so that Mexican citizens can waltz across the border as easily as if they were traveling from Texas to Oklahoma without any documentation, work where they want, live where they want, send their non-U.S. citizen children to public schools, receive free health care, welfare, food, shelter and clothing, just like any U.S. citizen can.   And by the way, U.S. taxpayers should foot the bill. 

President Calderon is wrong. 

There was another foreign leader who chastised Americans, Democracy and Capitalizm on our own soil…the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khruschev pounded his shoe on the lecturn shouting ”we will crush you!” and ”Your children will be communists!”

Khruschev was wrong, too.  

This is a nation that welcomes immigrants.  We celebrate our diversity every day in every community.  We respect our differences and we know our uniqueness & our heritage blend together into what is the greatest legacy of freedom, liberty, and tolerance that has ever existed on the face of the earth.  Unfortunately, our success has bred jealousy and fostered enemies.  So we must regulate who comes into our country, how long they stay, and what they do.  If they want to become citizens, great!  We have a process for that, flawed as it may be, we do have a process.  Yes, it needs to be fixed.  And those just want to come here, work hard seasonaly and send money home, we have a process for that as well.  But those who want to come here under the radar, beyond the laws of their home country and ours; the drug dealers, dealers in human trafficking, and their ilk who seek to do harm to others in the name of profit, we must have a stronger policy to stop them. 

Arizona has taken that first step.

Texas should lead the rest of the way. 

President Calderon didn’t win any conservative friends with his remarks on this visit.  We must let Congress and the White House know that this is our country and we want an immigration policy that reflects the needs and wishes of the American People, not the liberals in Washington, D.C. nor the anti-American protesters in Arizona, academia, or Mexico.