Liberty's Blog: Some Responses to the Mexican Invasion

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Some Responses to the Mexican Invasion

Mexico suggests U.S. military was behind border incident

In a bizarre twist to an already strange story, Mexico's Foreign Secretary suggested Thursday the men in Mexican military uniforms who were involved in a face-off with Texas law enforcement officials along the Rio Grande may actually have been U.S. soldiers.

The comments by Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez came one day after U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza asked the Mexican government to "fully investigate" Monday's border incident.

Derbez said Garza's comments were out of line.

Well at least Tony Garza is asking some questions, even if the Mexicas response was ridiculous. It looks like the incident got the attention of the two Texas Senators.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas said Thursday he plans to hold hearings on border incursion incidents and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, sent a letter Thursday to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff requesting a full investigation into a face-off.

“I do believe that any intrusion into American soil needs to be investigated, “ Cornyn said.

“Certainly the appearance of people wearing uniforms assisting drug dealers intruding into our borders is something that we ought to be very concerned about and that I am very concerned about,” he said.

Hutchison first called for an investigation Wednesday, saying she was “deeply concerned over this latest incident on the border.”

Kay Bailey Hutchison also posted a lettet to Michael Chertoff head of Homeland Security.

January 26, 2006

The Honorable Michael Chertoff
Secretary
Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528

Dear Secretary Chertoff:

On Monday, January 23, 2006, Texas law enforcement officers encountered suspected drug smugglers who were dressed as Mexican Army soldiers on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande near Nelly’s Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso, TX. Of the three vehicles involved, one was abandoned, one was stuck in the Rio Grande and set ablaze, and the third escaped. The abandoned vehicle, a Cadillac Escalade that had been reported stolen from El Paso, was said to have contained 1,477 pounds of marijuana. Dressed in camouflage uniforms, the suspects appeared to be Mexican Army personnel with several mounted .50 caliber machine guns more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border.

I am deeply concerned over this incident as well as similar reported occurrences along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to Homeland Security reports, Mexican military units or imposters have crossed into U.S. territory 216 times since 1996. On December 30, 2005, U.S. Border Patrol Agents near Brownsville, TX, received gunfire from the Mexican side of the border; and in November the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department reported confronting more than six men dressed in Mexican military uniforms who were allegedly trying to bring in more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande River. These incidents are of great alarm to our national security and must be addressed.

I request a full investigation into this latest matter, as well as the other incidents of suspected Mexican soldiers on U.S. soil, and report to Congress the details and confirmation of whether or not Mexican military officials have been involved in these cases. I also request you provide Congress a report with statistics on the frequency, amount, and volume of drugs crossing our northern and southern borders each day. Moreover, I urge a thorough analysis on what preventative measures should be addressed by Congress in securing our nation’s borders from suspected drug smugglers and terrorists, including a report on the effectiveness of virtual and physical fencing.

Make no mistake – this is only a symptom of a much larger problem. Even after 9/11, our nation’s borders remain porous. We must take bold action in securing our borders, and I look forward to working with you on this matter to ensure the safety of our nation.
Sincerely,
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Lair also expected more more of a reaction.

I have said in the past that if the United States were attacked by Mexico like Israel is attacked by the Qassam-launching scumbags in Gaza, the United States' response would be swift and massive.

Well, based on the pathetic non-response by the United States to the ~~incursion~~ invasion of heavily-armed Mexican military forces accompanying drug smugglers in direct violation of American sovereignty, I guess I need to take all that back.

Welcome to America: Walk all over us.

And Michelle Malkin is keeping us posted about this story.

2 Comments:

On 12/03/2006 01:37:00 PM, Anonymous said...: Texas IS Mexican Land therefore Mexican soldiers weren't violating US laws.

If those soldiers were in Kansas or Oklahoma (US rightfully states) that would be a different history.
On 12/03/2006 01:39:00 PM, Anonymous said...: Check this out:

US theft of Mexican territory

Did you know that until 1848 California, New Mexico and other portions of the Southwest were internationally recognized provinces of free Mexico, until the U.S. decided it wanted those provinces, declared war on Mexico, and stole them? Read on for the chronology of these events, and then ask yourself : "Who are the real illegal in California?"
Prior to 1822 What is today Mexico, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and California are all Spanish colonies.
1822 Mexican colonists, following the American revolution, rebel against Spain and win their own revolutionary war, making Mexico a free nation just like America.
1844 James Polk campaigns for the U.S. presidency, supporting expansion of U.S. territories into Mexico.
February, 1845 James Polk, on his inagauguration night, confides to his Secretary of the Navy that a principal objective of his presidency is the acquisition of California, which Mexico had been refusing to sell to the U.S. at any price.
Early 1845 The Washington Union, expressing the position of James Polk, writes: "...who can arrest the torrent that will pour onward to the West? The road to California will be open to us. Who will stay the march...?" "A corps of properly organized volunteers...would invade, overrun, and occupy Mexico. They would enable us not only to take California, but to keep it."
Early 1845 John O'Sullivan, editor of the Democratic review writes it is "Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent ...for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
Early 1845 James Polk promises Texas he will support moving the historical Texas/Mexico border at the Nueces river 150 miles south to the Rio Grande provided Texas agrees to join the union. "The traditional border between Texas and Mexico had been the Nueces River...and both the United States and Mexico had recognized that as the border." (Zinn, p. 148)
June 30, 1845 James Polk orders troops to march south of the traditional Texas/Mexico border into Mexican inhabited territory, causing Mexicans to flee their villages and abandon their crops in terror.

"Ordering troops to the Rio Grande, into territory inhabited by Mexicans, was clearly a provocation." (Zinn, p. 148)

"President Polk had incited war by sending American soldiers into what was disputed territory, historically controlled and inhabited by Mexicans." (John Schroeder , "Mr. Polk's War")
Early 1846 Colonel Hitchcock, commander of the 3rd Infantry regiment, writes in his diary: "...the United States are the aggressors....We have not one particle of right to be here....It looks as if the government sent a small force on purpose to bring on a war, so as to have a pretext for taking California and as much of this country as it chooses....My heart is not in this business."
May 9, 1846 President Polk tells his cabinet: "...up to this time...we have heard of no open aggression by the Mexican Army."
May 10, 1846 Violence erupts between Mexican and American troops south of the Nueces River. Of course Polk claims Mexicans had fired the first shot, but in his famous "spot resolutions" congressman Abraham Lincoln repeatedly challenges president Polk to name the exact "spot" where Mexicans first attacked American troops. Polk never met the challenge.
May 11, 1846 President Polk urges congress to declare war on Mexico.
May 12, 1846 : Horace Greeley writes in the New York Tribune: "We can easily defeat the armies of Mexico, slaughter them by thousands, and pursue them perhaps to their capital; we can conquer and "annex" their territory; but what then? Who believes that a score of victories over Mexico, the "annexation" of half of her provinces, will give us more Liberty, a purer Morality, a more prosperous Industry...?
1846 Congressman Abraham Lincoln, speaking in a session of congress "...the president unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced a war with Mexico....The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, un- provoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us."
after war is underway, the American press comments:

February 11, 1847. The "Congressional Globe" reports: "...We must march from ocean to ocean....We must march from Texas straight to the Pacific ocean....It is the destiny of the white race, it is the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon Race."

The New York Herald: "The universal Yankee Nation can regenerate and disenthrall the people of Mexico in a few years; and we believe it is a part of our destiny to civilize that beautiful country."

American Review writes of Mexicans "yielding to a superior population, insensibly oozing into her territories, changing her customs, and out-living, exterminating her weaker blood."
1846-1848 U.S. Army battles Mexico, not just enforcing the new Texas border at the Rio Grande but capturing Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and California (as well as marching as far south as Mexico City).
1848 Mexico surrenders on U.S. terms (U.S. takes over ownership of New Mexico, California, an expanded Texas, and more, for a token payment of $15 million, which leads the Whig Intelligencer to report: "We take nothing by conquest....Thank God").
(date unknown) General Ulysses S. Grant calls the Mexican War "the most unjust war ever undertaken by a stronger nation against a weaker one."
Primary Source: "We take nothing by conquest, Thank God", in A People's History Of the United States, 1492-Present, Howard Zinn, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. (This book is available on the shelf at virtually every bookstore in America. The New York Times Book Review says it "...should be required reading for a new generation of students...." )

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/guadalu3.htm