The reconquista fantasy

Michelle Malkin:

There are none so blind as those who will not see. While the mainstream media heaped praise on the "peaceful" May Day protesters and newspapers plastered sympathetic photos of the pro-illegal alien "sea of humanity" all over their front pages, freelance photographers, bloggers and radio interviewers captured a sea of open-borders militancy nationwide.
Uninformed political observers delude themselves into thinking these sentiments are relegated to the fringe. But the core concepts of reconquista (the "reconquest" of the Southwest by Mexico) have spread wide and deep -- from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Milwaukee to Arkansas and beyond. In Denver, a large banner read: "America is a continent not a country." In Albuquerque, Latino activists held up a provocative sign asking aloud: "Manifest Destiny?"
On the Sean Hannity radio show Monday, I debated (or rather listened to five minutes of screeching by) a young member of the radical group MeCha. A University of San Francisco student, she denied her group still subscribed to 1960s identity politics, then promptly delivered a full-throated rant about Mexico's right to reclaim American territory: "We believe that we have the right to be in this land.... Aztlan is California. Aztlan is this country. This country was ours. ... We didn't cross the borders. The borders crossed us.... This country is based on exploitation."
On NPR's "All Things Considered," Gloria Ramirez Vargas, a politician in Baja, Calif., rallied her constituents with a similar cry: "Many Mexicans are nourishing the ground in the U.S., but those lands were once ours. Those same lands, which now with intelligence, with love and with a lot of work, we are reconquering again for our Mexico."

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What is really bizaar about this fantasy world is that they want to make the Southwest intothe land they fled. If Mexico and Mexican rule was that great why do they leave? If instead of reconquering the US southwest as their goal, they wanted the US to annex Mexico, the country would immediately become more wealthy and people would have fewer reasons to flea north for jobs. It is the incompetance of Mexican goverment that is the problem not an ancient dispute over real estate. You put any real estate under the rule of incompetant and you would get the same results.

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