Pat Buchanan: Mexico recapturing U.S. lands?
In his new book, ‘State of Emergency,’ the conservative commentator calls for sweeping reform of immigration policies. Read an excerpt
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In his new book, “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” Pat Buchanan writes that the influx of immigrants from south of the border into the U.S. is an attempt to recapture land. The conservative commentator and former presidential candidate writes: “Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.” He also addresses immigration trends in Europe. Buchanan was invited on “Today” to discuss his book and current issues. Read chapter excerpts from his book:
Chapter 1. How Civilizations Perish
As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended.
Chapter 2. The Invasion
Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk? Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.
Chapter 3. Coming to America
High among the [costs of immigration] is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas’ Disease and leprosy are surfacing here.... Bedbugs have invaded the United States for the first time in 50 years, with 28 states reporting recent infestations.
Chapter 4. The Face of America: 2050
By 2050 ... there will be almost 2.5 times as many people here as in 1960: 420 million. The share of the population of European descent will be a minority, as it is today in California, Texas and New Mexico. And that minority will be aging, shrinking and dying. There will be as many Hispanics here, 102 million, as there are Mexicans today in Mexico.
By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America will be a Third World country.... Our great cities will all look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of the Southwest will look like Juarez and Tijuana.
Chapter 5. Suicide of the GOP
Mass immigration is swamping the GOP base. Tens of millions of immigrants who vote Democratic, once they are naturalized and registered, have come and are coming to America.... History may yet record that the Immigration Act of 1965 act converted “The Emerging Republican Majority” of Kevin Phillips’ classic work into the Lost Colony of the 21st century.
Chapter 6. Roots of Paralysis
The Bush plan is economic treason against the American worker. That “civil rights leaders” are silent about the dispossession of the black working class, that unions are not marching to denounce this sellout of blue-collar and white-collar America, only tells us that the amorality of the transnational corporation has infected both. Solidarity be damned, it is all about money now.
Chapter 7. A Grudge Against the Gringo
In “El Plan [de Aztlan],” “Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.” The MEChA slogan is “Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,” which translates, “For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.” The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: “Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.”
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