Mexico's Plan for the American Southwest

Referred to as the Reconquista Movement, Illegal Mexicans in America, Mexicans in Mexico, and some Mexican Americans are deadly serious when they claim that California and large sections of the American Southwest were stolen from Mexico by the United States in the 1800's, and they seek to reconquer this territory by taking the land away from America and returning it to Mexico. The final goal of this rising movement is to Reconquista (reconquer) these stolen territories for La Raza.

And how will this be done? Millions of illegals are pouring into the U.S., swearing allegiance to Mexico. A joke on my job (in the construction industry) is that they (the Mexicans) are breeding out the white people (a joke on me since my wife is Mexican, these jokesters claim). In other words, Mexico is going to reconguer the American Southwest with sheer numbers and presence. The Reconquista Movement believes that it is only a matter of time when they will take political control because the Hispanics will be the majority, and once California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico are controlled by Mexican immigrants, the states will secede the United States and join Mexico, much in the same way the Confederate States seceded from the Union during the American Civil War.

And the left is pushing the Reconquista agenda gladly. The leftists in Mexico have maps incorporating large sections of the American Southwest and the theory that the U.S. stole these territories from Mexico - - and this is even being taught in "Hispanic Studies" programs in U.S. schools.

The plan is sinisterly sound. They plan to expoit American generosity to the fullest, while mocking us, and then illegals will get their citizenship for themselves and their children so that they can eventually vote to return to Mexico large sections of the American Southwest.

Do you remember the protests recently over illegal immigration that even the Mayor of Los Angeles marched in? Banners held during those rallies said things like, "I'm not illegal, I'm Mexican, and I'm in my Homeland." "We are Indigenous - - the only owners of this continent." And do you remember all of the Mexican flags waving?

A Minuteman recently observed this occurrence in Rancho Cucamonga, California:

"On January 7, 2006, the Minuteman Project held a National Day Laborer Site protest. Often, a day labor site is nothing more than a parking lot outside a building-materials store where the owner sees a business advantage to allowing illegal alien day laborers to stand around and wait for job offers.

At the day labor site in Rancho Cucamonga, the Minuteman Project videotaped an angry Mexican who came out into the street to shout insults. “Go back to Germany where you belong!” he shouted. “Stay in Germany! Get out of here!” Then, pointing demonstrably to the ground with his right index finger, he screamed, “This is Mexico! This is our land! Get out of here, racist pigs! Viva Saddam Hussein! Viva Cuba!”

Clearly, the illegal immigrants at the day labor center didn’t want to be identified, since they were planning to take jobs at below-minimum wages and not pay taxes. Yet, the claim that California is actually Mexico was not made lightly. For millions of Hispanics in the Unites States, and for millions more in Mexico, the assertion is made in deadly seriousness."

Jose Angel Gutiérrez, a political science professor and former head of the Mexican-American Studies Center at the University of Texas, Arlington, spouted this typical Reconquista rhetoric in a recent speech:

"We remain a hunted people. Now, you think you have a destiny to fulfill in this land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. We are a new Mestizo Nation. This is our homeland. We cannot, we will not, and we must not be made “illegal” in our homeland. We are not “immigrants” that came from another country to another country. We are migrants free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here.

We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging, white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It’s a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."

The "Mexica Movement" is a large part of the belief system held by the Reconquista movement. The primary point of the Mexica Movement is that current U.S. citizens are colonialists and European imperialists who stole the land from its true owners, the Mexican Race, which dates back untold centuries by way of their Aztec roots. Here is some rhetoric from the Mexica Movement’s website:

"Mexica Movement is a Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) rights educational organization for the people of Mexican, “Central American,” “Native American,” and First Nation descend of Anahuac, in what is now called “North America.” Occupied Anahuac includes the colonial nations of Canada, U.S., Mexico (also controlled by Europeans), and “Central America” (down to include “Costa Rica,” which are also controlled by Europeans). “North America is the geographical area of the culture of Anahuac, which is the culture of corn, which brought about our civilizations. We, the Nican Tlaca people of Anahuac, are one people. We are one race. We have origins in one culture. We include all Full-bloods and Mixed-bloods as Nican Tlaca. We include ourselves with all similar movements in the Western Hemisphere (including those now starting in “South America.”)"

Of course, Liberals use race as an argument, and since in their eyes they base their entire political vision on race, it is politically incorrect to call the organization racist.

Aztlán is the mythical place of origin of the Aztec people. In the politics of illegal immigration, Aztlán has come to represent that part of the U.S. that the Reconquista movement intends to reclaim for an expanded Mexico. Using this base, maps have been drawn to illustrate Aztlán as a redefined Mexico which includes much of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Aztlán is the dream of another radical organization, the Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, which translates as the “Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán,” more commonly abbreviated to the acronyms “M.E.Ch.A” or “MEChA.” The symbol of MEChA is a black eagle against a red background. The eagle holds in its right claw a weapon similar to a machete, and in its left hand a stick of dynamite. In the beak of the eagle is the lighted fuse needed to blast the dynamite.

The intent of MEChA is clear in its national constitution:

"The Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlán must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlán."

And underneath this incredible racial agenda is a radical leftist political agenda that shares with socialists, communists, and Islamism the goal of destroying the United States. MEChA agrees with radical socialists, and communists that the United States is a colonial, imperialist country controlled by Europeans and dedicated to capitalist exploitation of workers. MEChA presents a version of Marxism with a racist twist. And MEChA has a huge presence as a student organization with more than 300 chapters in high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.

Reconquista desires to push back the U.S.-Mexican border to where it stood before the 1846–1848 Mexican-American War settled the breakaway of Texas from Mexico. Reconquista radicals wish to see the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase negated. Extreme Reconquista radicals would like to revisit the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, which established the border of U.S. territory from the Rocky Mountains.

The only trouble with annulling the Adams-Onis treaty is that would cede the western United States to Spain, not Mexico. Reconquista radicals of today may speak the Spanish language, but their cultural and racial orientation harks back to the indigenous Indian or Aztec roots of ancient Mexico. Reconquista radicals want to deal with European Spain about as much as they want to deal with the United States.

The massive protests in March, April, and May 2006 supporting illegal aliens were entirely one-sided expressions of First Amendment rights, and those who dared take to the streets in counter-protest, like the Minutemen, risked attack and injury from the politically intolerant who were thrusting their message upon America as if theirs were the only legitimate message.

Protests marched onto freeways and blocked traffic in major cities, the point being to disrupt business-as-usual. The protest organizers originally encouraged students to walk out of schools, until the teachers’ unions complained that schools might lose government funds. Students displayed openly the leftist ideas that they had been taught about immigration, flying the Mexican flag above an upside down U.S. flag at the schoolyard.

The goal of the liberal Mexican Left is to launch an invasion that would only become obvious to Middle America when it was too late. Along the way, agents of various terrorist groups are hopping across the Mexican border as well. It seems to me that the Reconquista movement would love to see a terrorist attack on America again, as long as the victims were not members of the Mexican Radical Left.

My wife is currently applying for citizenship to the United States. She grew up in the U.S. Her parents came over to America as true immigrants. They followed the rules, jumped through the hoops, and envisioned a better future for themselves and their children in the Land of Opportunity. They followed all of the laws, worked hard, and pursued the American Dream. My wife, the only one of the children born in Mexico (she is the oldest, and fell victim to the Aztlan rhetoric through most of her childhood and young adult years - - until now...her main reason for seeking citizenship is so that she can vote, and be yet another voice against the liberal left) is pursuing her bachelor's degree, and her family is an example of what immigrants truly are, and that they have been successful in chasing the American Dream. She sees these Mexican Leftists as users and criminals. If any of them receives amnesty, that is a slap in the face to her, and her family.

With the recent release of the Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem, Middle America is beginning to feel like we are losing America to the demands of Hispanic illegal immigrants. They are an invading army posing as a gift of cheap labor. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. As long as we continue to allow them to jump the border without consequence, the battle will continue to be lost. The primary intent of the millions of illegals crossing the border is to take over and re-invent the United States in their own image and to their liking. Action must be immediate. Our resolve must be sound.

God Bless America. We must defend her now. The invasion continues, and these invaders must be treated like the criminal members of an invading force that they are.