New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez took office in part based on her hard stance against illegal aliens. After being given 1930 Census records by reporters, however, she has now acknowledged that her grandparents illegally came to the USA from Mexico. In the meantime, another family member of President Obama has been arrested as an illegal alien.
The Republican Martinez led the fight to repeal what she has called “the dangerous practice” of granting driver’s licenses to undocumented migrants to “protect the people of New Mexico.”
Martinez’s acknowledged the new evidence on a radio show and admitted for the first time that “I know they arrived without documents, especially my father’s father.”
After riding out a controversy over the illegal status of his aunt (who was allowed to stay in the United States despite violating past orders), President Barack Obama has been informed that an uncle has been arrested as an illegal alien. To make matters worse, Obama Onyango, who also has a driver’s license, has a history of drunk driving. Obama’s uncle was released “quietly” from custody despite his illegal status and record.
While President Obama is hardly responsible for such relatives (particularly on the side of his father who effectively abandoned him as a child), these stories are likely to magnify the immigration debate. The White House seems to be embracing such a debate in an appeal to the Hispanic community, but I think this can only hurt Obama further in the polls.
Source: USA Today
Mr. Patrick,
Your point is well-taken and I certainly believe that immigration is a problem that needs to be addressed.
And yet…
The fact of my very existence forces me to accept the white-ification of the entire North American continent. You point to the “Hispanification” of the U.S., Europeans will in quiet tones bring up the muslim-ification of their countries, and of course bringing up the rear will be Israel.
For better and for worse, it’s simply the continuity of the kaleidoscope which has put me where I am, oftentimes on the shoulders and destruction of many that came before. And while I have not been able to make my peace with it, I haven’t been able to escape the facts of the matter either.
I’m still sorting that one out. Your thoughts have been a great help to me.
🙂
Here is the Official History of the earliest inhabitants of New Mexico:
New Mexico First Early Inhabitants
c. 25000 B.C. – Sandia people leave earliest evidence of human existence in what is now New Mexico.
c. 10000-9000 B.C. – Clovis hunters roam area in search of mammoth, bison and other game.
c. 9000-8000 B.C. – Folsom people flourish throughout Southwest at the end of the last Ice Age.
c. 10000-500 B.C. – Cochise people are first inhabitants to cultivate corn, squash and beans, the earliest evidence of agriculture in the Southwest.
A.D. 300-1400 – Mogollon culture introduces highly artistic pottery and early architecture in the form of pit houses.
A.D. 1-700 – Anasazi basket makers elevate weaving to a high art, creating baskets, clothing, sandals and utensils.
A.D. 700-1300 – Anasazi culture culminates in the highly developed Chaco Civilization.
A.D. 1200-1500s – Pueblo Indians establish villages along the Rio Grande and its tributaries.
Until we figure a way to go back in time and right a few “this is sure gonna be embarrassing in my future” incidents, (see Marty McFly for details) I see no contradiction here whatsoever. Unless Ms. Martinez knew of her lineage and covered it up – how many of any of us, have seen the birth certificates of our grandparents?
What I find far more pertinent to the greater issue, is that othewise bright individuals of all hues, can believe the Hispanification of America – at warp speed – a mass migration of millions of unprepared folks – isn’t really sinking a floundering ship.
I do recognize that many people simply and honestly cannot see the monstrous distortions and systems breakdowns from their own front door.
But we live in the age of the internet – a modern miracle – and it takes less than 30 minutes to get up to speed on the ugly facts. And one of the facts is this:
Every lifeboat has a “maximum occupancy allowed” stamp right on the side.
Now why would that be?
The difference between the 1930s and now (and for many yrs) is that there was comparatively little government stolen money (taxes) being given out to others in the 30s. Those who came into the US without government permission almost all worked for others, started their own businesses or depended on relatives/friends until they did one of the first two. Now of course, anyone can easily receive a government hand-out of various kinds.
Lots of people do not want to acknowledge the primary problem of the government handout programs – because they are recipients themselves in one or another of them?
Making lots of noise about “illegal immigrants” without addressing the root – government handouts – does nothing but perpetuate the practice of government dependency by the vast majority. And this plays right into the hands of government itself! – maintaining and growing the pawn mentality!
Governments encourage pawn mentality through promoting suspicion, fear, hate and dependence. No self-responsibility needed since government will decide and provide care for all – all of this by way of numerous government programs and policies.
No self-responsibility wanted, since that is done by people who mostly think, question and analyze (to individually varying degrees) and therefore might balk at being pawns – good only as cattle for labor of various types that maintain and promote government power directly or via taxes, and suitable as cannon fodder to fight the numerous wars begun as part of the fear campaign to further the belief that government is a necessity. (Forbid the thought that many in the populace should come to question whether a government is truly needed… ah, but they can and such questioning may be starting by some, chiefly the young.) It is definitely within the individual capabilities of the vast majority to come to understand this and with the Internet, more and more are within a finger’s tap of getting the information.
New Mexico was inhabited by Native Americans, mainly Pueblos, before it was taken over by Spain. Bill Richardson retired and they got a republican governor.
Jeff ,NoWay, Anon you are right in your statements, but you do have to admit there is some irony at play here..
“While President Obama is hardly responsible for such relatives (particularly on the side of his father who effectively abandoned him as a child) . . . ” JT
So if this were a white family member would he be particularly responsible? What if his father hadn’t abandoned him? Would that then make him particularly responsible?”
Jeff–What Anonymous means is that this land was stolen from Native American people. This continent was obtained via conquest in the name of White supremacy. Treaties were broken and the whole nine yards to acquire this country. So do act as though you do not know what she means. I wish my American Indian ancestors would have built a wall. Now I say let them all in.
“100% of US citizens are on taken land. That is because 100% of every human is standing on taken land.”
Granted — but the U.S. still keeps the heirs of the rightful owners in refugee camps and, as a lasting legacy of its genocidal policies born of sel-righteous imperial racism, the U.S.imposes a blood quantum restricitons on their descendats so that over time the refugee camps can also be taken.
So what? Does the fact that her grandparents acted illegally mean that she can’t be against that illegal action? If your grandparents were racist does that mean you can’t hold racism abhorrent?
Anonymously Yours,
I’m a bit confused about your “facts”. It simply isn’t even close to being true that 90% of US citizens were illegal citizens at one time. Unless you mean that 90% of US citizens have committed some crime or other. If that is what you mean, the percentage is probably closer to 100%. Then again if that is what you meant, not sure what the point was. The fact that we have all committed a crime doesn’t mean we can’t be against criminal acts.
Oh, and yes, 100% of US citizens are on taken land. That is because 100% of every human is standing on taken land.
oh, and the police are paying for the cavity search.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_18844890
(of course they agreed to do so only have the story got published which is horrible)
To clear one thing up, that I left vague. The family rumor is that my grandmother was smuggled illegally into the US to give birth. Regardless of my dad’s story, as I point out there is nothing wrong with the Governor’s positions. It’s not even embarrassing to anyone that understands the concept of “time” and “apples and oranges” and “what hypocrisy actually is”
“she has now acknowledged that her grandparents illegally came to the USA from Mexico”
So! Other than personal embarassment, it should have no bearing on her position.
If I was sponsoring a Bill against rape, and found out that my grandfather had raped someone; do you think that would make me reconsider my position? Do you think that would somehow make me now think that rape is OK?
Both entries are a violation of the sovereign.
There’s nothing wrong or hypocritical about her stance at all.
It’s no longer 1930 and the situations are completely different.
My dad was in Mexico in the 1920s.
I am largely against illegal immigration today.
I’ll give rafflaw, OS, MS, et. al., your usual smirks that of course this is true of me.
But Professor Turley, I am sure you know why my father was in Mexico in the 1920s. MS, you may too.
And I’m against illegal immigration for the same reason that Paul Krugman is against illegal immigration.
Times change, the situation is dramatically different. There is nothing wrong at all with the New Mexico governor’s stance. It is in fact, the actual progressive stance of actual progressives.
raff:
:=)
Whoops! Those fact thingies just keep getting in the way of the Teapublican message.
Wouldn’t Reagan’s amnesty have covered the grandparents (yes, even to 1930)? I don’t believe there was a back-date cutoff that applied.
” she has now acknowledged that her grandparents illegally came to the USA from Mexico”
OUCH!!!
I had read these a while back…My response is s what….90 per cent of the folks who claim citizenship here were illegals at one time…and 100 percent of the folks here are sitting on stolen or taken land….
A story I found interesting is this:
Woman has to pay $1k for forced cavity search
A woman in the state of New Mexico is asking cops to cover her medical bill after she was ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency of Las Cruces, NM to undergo a costly cavity search — at her own expense.
The woman, whose name is being withheld, was apprehended by authorities earlier this summer. Acting on “credible information from a reliable source,” Metro Sgt. Mike Alba obtained a search warrant from Magistrate Court to send the woman into Memorial Medical Center to undergo a forcible and thorough body cavity search.
Not only did the probe come up fruitless, however, but the woman was footed with a medical bill for $1,122 for something she never wanted or asked for. Attorney Michael Lilley is representing the woman and served the county a claim last week that they will be held responsible for the hospital fees, which he is calling “unlawful.”
http://rt.com/usa/news/cavity-search-drug-cruces-947/