THE FOX - SLOW MOTION TO DOOMSDAY?

September 20, 2005

The Illegitimate Children of Vicente Fox

Filed under: Immigration — Christi S. King

A Fable

Like children mixed up in a bad relationship, they turn to Mother Mexico to help them. She tells them, “I cannot support you. I have no money. We will talk to your father, Vicente.”

But Father Vicente cannot be reached. He does not take their calls. He does not provide them with the support they so desperately need to survive.

Mother Mexico weeps.

Father Vicente loves to be called a father and boasts about his position but he has a difficult time accepting his new parental responsibilities. He doesn’t want to support his children so he decides it would be better for Mother Mexico to marry another. He agrees to give up his parental rights to half of his children and allows the new husband, Uncle Sam, to adopt these children.

But it doesn’t take long for Father Vicente to see the error of his ways. He calls on his children abroad to remember their loyalty to their “real” father. He greedily accepts the money they send to him from their new home. He helps them to trick their new father into giving them more than he and Mother Mexico could ever give them. He tells them that they are helping Mother Mexico and the brothers and sisters they left behind.

The brothers and sisters who stayed behind turn to Mother Mexico to help them. She tells them, “I cannot support you. I have no money. We will talk to your father, Vicente.”

Father Vicente cannot be reached. He does not take their calls. He does not provide them with the support they so desperately need to survive.

Mother Mexico weeps.

Vicente Fox - the ultimate dead-beat dad.

illegal immigration

From: http://commonsenseamerica.net/blog1/?p=135

Thursday, February 9, 2006

VICENTE FOX MAY HIT TRIFECTA

El Presidente Vicente Fox of Mexico may hit the trifecta, owing to the Bush administration's (and administrations before it) patent indifference to illegal immigration, as well as the legions of open border apologists and liberal do-gooders who aid and abet the human invasion of our country from the south.

The trifecta in the making? Imagine this: Mexican textbooks in American classrooms; illegal alien students in American classrooms; and, incredibly, illegal alien teachers in American classrooms.

Mexican textbooks

Last December, I published this post and wrote the following:

What American taxpayers need to understand, and especially those with school-age children attending public schools, is that the government of Mexico is striving to imbue American school children and the offspring of illegal aliens sharing classrooms with them with Mexico's culture and its nation's history. That's right ... you read that correctly. Fox News reported yesterday that a public school student in the Santa Ana School District in southern California is not only studying American history, but is receiving textbooks from Mexico via its Los Angeles-based consulate on Mexico's history. American school children in possession of Mexican textbooks!

Mexico has absolutely no business doing this -- interfering in American public education -- and the Bush Administration, which champions its No Child Left Behind educational initiative, is altogether disingenuous in not sharing this fact with American voters. Fact is, the U.S. Department of Education is a co-conspirator!

I went on to recommend to my readers an important, must-read column by Heather MacDonald, published in the prestigious, widely-read "City Journal." I heartily recommend once again that you read it in its entirety.

Illegal Alien Students

The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C. estimates, according to Frosty Wooldridge, that 1.1 million illegal aliens currently occupy seats in America's classrooms and that number can only grow. And the cost to American taxpayers of educating other than American citizens? A staggering $12.0 billion annually, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (and $24 billion when you account for children born here in this country to illegal aliens).

As Mr. Wooldridge challenges parents of schoolchildren in this alarming column:

American parents must ask what kind of an education their kids receive from parents’ hard earned tax dollars. Short answer: severely degraded. No teacher can administer the educational curriculum with the chaos of 40 languages. They can’t teach with the fear of weapons and drugs in classrooms. As shown in Denver and in much of the USA, one in five teachers quit out of complete frustration.

His prescription?

What can be done? We must insist that our publicly elected leaders, first of all, stop the illegal alien invasion. We cannot survive it much longer. It creates a non-viable underclass, which in time will create hopelessness for millions. It will also create violence as their numbers grow. Second, we must insist that all people speak English in America as their first language. We cannot have foreign language television and radio stations that enhance non-assimilation. We must not allow multiple languages to be offered in any official public documents. We fracture our society and separate it into multiple language factions and an uneasy tension if we continue on this path with over 40 to 100 languages. Third, we must insist on 90 percent graduation rates from high school by ensuring that all students are here in this country legally and that they and their parents want to invest in the American Dream. Without the horrific confusion and costs of illegal alien students, we have a greater chance of realizing that kind of success.

Illegal Alien Teachers

In California alone, illegal and legal immigration have led to state agencies and California's public school districts having to grapple with adults and schoolchildren who speak over 100 different languages. The California Department of Education (CDE) "recognizes 54 languages in data from its annual census."

The upshot? Would you believe in Los Angeles County alone 3.8 million adults (53% of L.A. County's adult workforce) are effectively illiterate? And the numbers only get worse, as VDARE reports.

But some school districts in the United States intend to get creative in coming up with innovative solutions for educating their large, non-English speaking student populations. Enter the Dallas School District. They're considering hiring illegal alien school teachers to overcome the hurdle of bilingual education!

Some Dallas Independent School District trustees said they look forward to discussing the issue while others are treading cautiously. The district's attorneys will also participate in the discussion at today's meeting.

"I'm open to listening to the legal points they might make," trustee Hollis Brashear said. "But I don't know if we can discuss something that involves not complying with U.S. law."

"We as trustees can no longer solve problems like we did 10 years ago," Mr. Garza said. "We have to be innovative."

For Mr. May, no idea is too far-fetched. Last year, he successfully pushed a proposal, initially greeted with considerable skepticism, that requires some principals to become bilingual. The issue divided blacks and Hispanics and received nationwide attention.

This is precisely why America must secure its porous borders and stop the invasion. And this is why what Rep. Tom Tancredo refers to as "Amnesty-Lite" -- namely, President Bush's proposed, Ted Kennedy-endorsed, Guest Worker Program -- must be defeated.

Maybe, just maybe, the issue of what's happening in America's classrooms will get American parents off their collective hindquarters to join the fight for border security and immigration reform sans amnesty. If they won't fight the political fight for themselves, let's hope they'll do it for their children. The K-12 public school classroom has become a microcosm of illegal immigration's deleterious effects on this country -- a veritable petri dish for the insidious Bush-Fox alliance, determined as it is to forge an "integrated North America with open borders and a common labor market." The children, of course, get lost in the politics and are compelled to learn Spanish, read Mexican textbooks, and, perhaps not in the too distant future, receive their education from teachers here illegally.

And do remember: quality educations are not just a function of quality teachers. Students also benefit from the quality of the students around them. If you accept that premise, this and this should give you pause.

What say you? Had enough?

FOLLOW-UP (02/11/06): James Fulford adds to the immigrant teachers' controversy that I point to in my post and provides some important links. Do read it.

Amnesty is Misplaced Compassion

originally written in 2002

During last week's marathon trip to Latin America President George Bush failed to deliver to Mexico's president Vicente Fox a long-promised gift — a signed and sealed illegal immigrant amnesty bill. The proposal would provide amnesty for hundreds of thousands of aliens who have overstayed their visas and are residing illegally in the United States.

Before September 11, an amnesty bill appeared to be a certainty. Bush touted it as an act of compassion toward Mexico, an act that could only lead to better relations with our southern neighbors. Fox, of course, has a strong interest in the amnesty bill. Immigration to the U.S. provides Mexico with a much needed outlet for Mexico's desperate and malcontent poor. Illegal alien workers also provide much needed revenue for the Mexican economy, sending billions of dollars each year back to Mexico. Amnesty is well designed to help cover for Fox's dismal economic performance, particularly his failure to create the hundreds of thousands of jobs he promised.

At the same time, Mexico is making extraordinary efforts to seal its southern borders with Guatemala and Belize. Mexico clearly recognizes the dangers to its internal politics and economy posed by illegal immigration from its southern neighbors — no compassion there.

September's terrorist acts, however, taught Americans — or so it seemed — that illegal immigration should not be treated casually. Indeed, strident calls for tightening the border were heard from all quarters. And, for all intents and purposes, the border with Mexico was closed for a short period with remarkable effects on the flow of illegal aliens as well as illegal drugs.

Another amnesty, such as the one that occurred in 1986, will certainly be a spur to more illegal immigration. If there have been two amnesties who can doubt that there will be more? These bad precedents will create bad habits. Indeed they already have.

Amnesty for illegal aliens is simply a reward for law-breaking. No system depending on a strict regard for the rule of law can treat law-breaking so lightly. This is particularly true when those who are attempting to enter the country legally are forced to wait years and undergo massive bureaucratic battles. Amnesty is something we should always regard with deep suspicion because it excuses law-breakers. Amnesty is appropriate only when it serves the dignity of the law. When the law, contrary to its intent, has worked an injustice, amnesty might be an appropriate remedy. But when amnesty is used merely to excuse law-breaking or for cynical political purposes it directly undermines the rule of law.

Some years ago the Congress considered a bill that would have withdrawn birth-right citizenship for children born to illegal alien parents. When the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868 it defined American citizenship for the first time. It included all who were born or naturalized in theUnited States and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. It was widely understood at the time that Indians would not become citizens by the operation of the Fourteenth Amendment because they owed allegiance to their tribes and therefore did not fall under the United States' "jurisdiction" — which means not just legal obligations and protections, but also a patriotic attachment to the Constitution and founding principles of the nation.

Thus Indians born in the United States did not become citizens by that fact alone. Today, we confer automatically on the children of illegal aliens a status that was refused to Native Persons. How we came to hold this view is something of a mystery to constitutional scholars since there is no Supreme Court case on point. Indians became citizens when laws were passed by Congress bringing them within the jurisdiction of the United States. Congress could pass similar laws excluding children of illegal aliens from automatic citizenship, thereby depriving illegal aliens of a powerful incentive to break American laws.

Latino leaders in the Democratic party complained that Bush's amnesty plan and his much publicized trip to Latin America were merely cynical ploys to curry favor with Latino voters. The vehemence of the Democratic response indicates that they may be concerned that Bush is succeeding. The Democratic response may itself be too cynical. Whether cynical or not, the idea that amnesty is an act of compassion is certainly misplaced.