War With Mexico Imminent?
Suddenly it's 1916 all over again:
Uhhhh...okay. And what exactly are they there to do?
This movement, it should be emphasized, only arose after years and years of neglect of the illegal immigration issue by both major U.S. political parties. Just last week President Bush was kissing the ass of his good compadre "Vince," echoing his disapproval of independent citizen action to at least identify incoming wetbacks. This sort of tone-deaf defiance of the expressed will of the people who are tired of subsidizing millions of illegals from cradle to grave can only go on for so long before some of those same people start taking matters into their own hands. And the "Minutemen" are doing so in an eminently restrained, responsible, and cooperative fashion.
And yet the 21st century Pancho Villa refuses to tolerate even that.
And if those thousand Mexican troops provoked an incident? One that ended up taking American lives, on American soil? Would that not constitute an act of war on the part of our Southern neighbor? Almost makes me think he's bluffing.
Either way, though, it bolsters the parallel I've used for years of Mexico attempting the reconquest of the American southwest by invading, one "soldier" at a time. This stunt, PR or otherwise, just makes the underlying intention more overt.
Mexico's President Vicente Fox is preparing to respond militarily to a group of U.S volunteers who plan to patrol the U.S.-Mexican border starting tomorrow, positioning more than a thousand troops nearby, according to an Arizona TV station.
"The Mexican military is on standby," reports NBC's Tucson affiliate KVOA. "One unit has about a thousand soldiers. They're located just across the border."
Uhhhh...okay. And what exactly are they there to do?
Last week President Fox warned at a Mexico City press conference:The Mexican government totally rejects the idea of what amounts to local militia warning our Border Patrol agents about illegal, and I dare say "vigilante," incursions by its nationals into our territory? That's all the "Minutemen" have vowed to do.
"We totally reject the idea of these migrant-hunting groups. We will use the law, international law and even U.S. law to make sure these types of groups, which are a minority, will not have any opportunity to progress."
Over the last week spokesmen for the border patrol volunteers, who dub themselves Minutemen, have said they will not attempt to detain Mexican illegals, but rather report them to the Border Patrol and track them till they're apprehended.
This movement, it should be emphasized, only arose after years and years of neglect of the illegal immigration issue by both major U.S. political parties. Just last week President Bush was kissing the ass of his good compadre "Vince," echoing his disapproval of independent citizen action to at least identify incoming wetbacks. This sort of tone-deaf defiance of the expressed will of the people who are tired of subsidizing millions of illegals from cradle to grave can only go on for so long before some of those same people start taking matters into their own hands. And the "Minutemen" are doing so in an eminently restrained, responsible, and cooperative fashion.
And yet the 21st century Pancho Villa refuses to tolerate even that.
And if those thousand Mexican troops provoked an incident? One that ended up taking American lives, on American soil? Would that not constitute an act of war on the part of our Southern neighbor? Almost makes me think he's bluffing.
Either way, though, it bolsters the parallel I've used for years of Mexico attempting the reconquest of the American southwest by invading, one "soldier" at a time. This stunt, PR or otherwise, just makes the underlying intention more overt.
posted by JASmius at 7:03 PM
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