The Washington Examiner has a good editorial up on the "reconquesta movement" that seems to be threaded throughout the illegal immigration protestors who have gone to the streets recently. Here's a sample:
"Aztlan"” is the ancient Aztec word for the lands of California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, which more radical Hispanic activists have long claimed were stolen by "gringos"” from Europe and that are now to be retaken via massive immigration that eventually produces Hispanic majorities at all levels of governance. But whether expressed more moderately by groups such as FSMA or more radically by explicitly separatist voices like MEChA, Aztlan is the animating spirit of the Reconquista movement. That spirit is reflected in remarks like this by a former California state secretary of health, education and welfare: "“California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn'’t like it should leave."Let's hope someone in the Mexico find a way of dissolving such extremist thoughts and changing their economy into a growth zone. See, illegal immigration isn't just an American problem it's something that could be nipped in the bud partially by the Mexican government reforming its economy. Here's hoping for such action.
Behind such calls looms the dismal Mexican economy, which, as author and historian Victor Davis Hanson notes in the latest Claremont Review of Books, desperately needs the flow of workers to the U.S. because they send an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion back home annually. Plus, there are the immense costs shifted from Mexico to our education, health care and law enforcement systems that must serve the needs of the waves of immigrants, legal and illegal. Those of us living north of the border are thus subsidizing corruption south of the border that enables Mexican politicians and their wealthy friends and family members to live the good life without being held accountable for the millions of Mexicans who suffer grinding poverty and hopelessness.
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