The Mexican American War we won in 1853 never really
ended because of our open border. Mexicans have considered the US as a Mexican
suburb. Even when the US bought New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico for $10
million in 1854, the migrant invasion continued. Our current immigration system
has become so sloppy, it hardly exists. See below: Mexican
presidential candidate: Vote for me, California! Swing state, by Daniel Horowitz, 3/9/18, Conservative Review
How many electoral votes does California
hold in Mexico’s elections?
If you are not already outraged by the
insidious ways the Mexican government undermines our sovereignty, pay attention
to a recent story about a Mexican presidential candidate campaigning in
California for votes in his home country’s election.
There are now enough Mexican nationals,
legal and illegal, living in California that Mexican candidates campaign there
as if it were a “swing province” of Mexico itself. But that’s not even the
point.
While campaigning in California for
“overseas” votes, Ricardo Anaya Cortes blasted Donald Trump and met with
liberal activists to promote “Dream” amnesty. Cortes said in one of his
speeches, as reported by the Center for Immigration Studies:
I want to ask
you, with my heart in my hand, that every time you hear an aggressive or
denigrating expression, remember that there, in Mexico, you are the heroes of
the country, the brave, the enterprising, the generous, those who dared to
cross the border to give their family a better future. Do not you forget that
you are not alone … all of Mexico is with you and when I am President I will
always be on your side.
Cortez reportedly told a group of
Mexican nationals that he would always side with them over “an American
president who has dedicated himself to insulting our community.”
Think about that: this man is seeking
the votes of Mexican nationals living in the United States under the promise of
being tough with Trump and advocating that these very same people become
Americans and vote in American elections?
They can’t have it both ways. If they
care about their people, they should stop sending them here and doing
everything possible through their consulates to circumvent our immigration laws
and enforcement. And if they badly want them to be Americans, why do they
continue to treat them as Mexicans and seek their votes? Obviously, they want
their votes but don’t want the responsibility of
taking care of them. They’d rather we do that, on our dime.
Also, weren’t we told that the
“dreamers” “know no other country but America?” Why would they be voting in
Mexico’s elections?
There is something fundamentally wrong
when a foreign presidential candidate can come here and urge American residents
to vote for him so he can use his diplomatic tools to undermine America’s laws
and sovereignty.
Dual
voting is an affront to American sovereignty and violates the immigration
principles of all sides of this debate.
The problem of our stolen sovereignty
and immigrants’ lack of assimilation runs much deeper than illegal immigrants
or un-naturalized legal immigrants voting in Mexican elections. There are well
over 1 million naturalized U.S. citizens voting in Mexican elections, many of
whom likely live in California, according to a 2014 report by the Los Angeles Times editorial board. This practice is likely illegal and should be abolished.
Advocates of open borders virtue-signal
about the need to open our arms to all those who want to become Americans.
Great, so let’s all become Americans. When immigrants complete their
naturalization process, they must swear an oath with the emphatic commitment to
“absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to
any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have
heretofore been a subject or citizen.” Liberals often remind us about our
“traditions on immigration,” but this law and tradition is as old as America’s
Founding. The language to abjure and abandon the new citizen’s former sovereign
was officially codified into the Naturalization Act of 1795.
There has long been a heated debate over
the concept and practice of holding dual citizenship. Let’s put that debate
aside for the moment. Many countries, due to their citizenship laws, very
loosely throw citizenship at the children of their expatriates living abroad.
I’m not suggesting that we force every American, especially naturally born Americans,
to actively renounce that other citizenship. But what we should all agree upon
is that we must enforce the law and the oath of allegiance so that no dual
citizen takes active steps to vote in foreign elections, in violation of that
sacred oath. The entire concept violates not only the letter of the law but the
entire spirit of welcoming immigrants.
I would argue that such an act should be
grounds for de-naturalization by retroactively rendering the oath fraudulent,
much like we de-naturalize those who obtained citizenship through fraudulent
circumstances. The courts should not serve as an obstacle to reclaiming sovereignty
But alas, there’s a court case behind
every backward policy. The lawless Supreme Court of the Warren era ruled (Efroyim v. Rusk,
1967) that Congress cannot de-naturalize someone who votes in a foreign
election, a violation of previous court precedent. However, this ruling needs
to be revisited. Felix Frankfurter, writing for the majority in upholding
Congress’ right to de-naturalize in this circumstance a decade earlier (Perez v. Brownell,
1958), got it right when he observed how dual voting undermines foreign
relations and is well within the province of congressional power to regulate:
The
activities of the citizens of one nation when in another country can easily
cause serious embarrassments to the government of their own country as well as
to their fellow citizens. We cannot deny to Congress the reasonable belief that
these difficulties might well become acute, to the point of jeopardizing the
successful conduct of international relations, when a citizen of one country
chooses to participate in the political or governmental affairs of another
country. The citizen may by his action unwittingly promote or encourage a
course of conduct contrary to the interests of his own government.
This rationale is evident from comments
by one of these Mexican nationals quoted in the Dallas Morning News as
saying that she is voting in the Mexican elections to counter what is going on
here in the United States. “Of course I’m voting; especially with the situation
with the United States, Mexican leadership is important,” she said. “What’s at
stake in Mexico’s upcoming election is the battle for stability amidst a wave
of rising nationalism.”
In the meantime, the Trump
administration should use all the tools of statecraft to discourage rather than
encourage this practice. The Mexican consulates undermine our sovereignty in
many ways and recently has allowed Mexican nationals to obtain voter IDs on our soil without going home. We
can place restrictions on such policies for U.S. citizens. Alternatively,
Congress can officially criminalize foreign voting of naturalized citizens as a
violation of the citizenship oath but stop short of using de-naturalization as
a punishment and opting for a fine instead. At the very least, we should
prospectively make this a condition on the application for naturalization.
This is a growing problem because in
recent years Mexico and Central America – the countries that supply us with the
most immigrants – have liberally granted citizenship to children of those
living abroad. Thanks to the rule change, there are now seven times as many Mexican citizens living in America who can vote in this Mexican
presidential election compared with Mexico’s last election in 2012. Many of
them are not yet American citizens or are illegal aliens, but at least the
naturalized U.S. citizens should be barred from voting in foreign elections.
Even more offensive, so many of these
dual nationals are anchor babies who only obtained citizenship in America
through their parents’ violation of our laws and a misinterpretation of the
Fourteenth Amendment. As I note in great detail in Chapter 4 of my book, our
Constitution, laws, and history are clear that birthright citizenship can only
apply to legal immigrants who are brought here with the consent of the
citizenry. Citizenship can never be asserted without the consent of the
citizenry.
Those who extol the virtues of mass
migration often chide us about the need to reach out to those who yearn to
become Americans. Well, this is a simple test. Anyone who truly wants to become
an American and abide by the oath of citizenship should have no problem
surrendering his right to vote in foreign elections.
There is nothing of greater importance
to the American people than the preservation of American citizenship and
national sovereignty. If the people don’t reclaim control over citizenship and
instead allow the courts and the political elites to concoct a birthright for
anyone in the world to claim for their children at will – while continuing to
leverage their former countries against our own government – the sovereignty of
the American people and the birthright of American citizens will be forever
lost.
Then again, if California wants to
continue its neo-confederate ways, it may as well make it official and become
the northernmost province of Mexico.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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