Latin America File: Unlikely allies oppose Washington's national security bill and bolster Mexico's enormous fifth column in USA

"We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or 15 years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they're going to have one thing in mind - cross the border, go into Dallas, go into Houston, go into New Mexico, go into San Diego, and each one has embedded in his mind the idea of killing 10 Americans."

-- Tomas Borge, Sandinista Interior Minister, 1986

That the Communist Party USA would support the politicization of the massive fifth column of more than 10 million illegal aliens in the USA, many of whom apparently took to the streets in brazen protests against US immigration law this past week, should surprise no astute student of subversion. The Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 is currently under consideration before the United States Senate.

Defeat Anti-Immigrant HR 4437
Author: CPUSA
First published 02/14/2006 15:11

Last December, the House of Representatives passed anti-immigrant HR 4437, introduced by GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner (Wis.).

• It would make all undocumented workers felons, as well as those who help or work with them including teachers, clergy, union leaders, social workers and family members.
• Employers would have to check the Social Security numbers of all their employees.
• An environmentally destructive wall would be built along the Mexican border.
• Local and state police would be deputized to arrest anyone they think may be without documents.

This would vastly increase racial profiling and scare immigrants away from reporting crimes. This is no solution! It is another way of diminishing the democratic rights of the people in our country. HR 4437 must be defeated in the Senate. Just and workable immigration reform should be passed instead.

What are the reasons for immigration?
Increased immigration is the result of the declining living standards and job displacement caused by NAFTA and other pro-big-business policies pushed by our government. To provide a better future for their families, immigrants are pushed and pulled to come here, at great cost and risk, to live without papers and suffer great indignities. This puts immigrant workers in a vulnerable position and forces them into substandard wages and working conditions. Employers and others use the immigrants’ vulnerability as a lever to lower living standards and quality of life for all.

Don’t buy the big lie.
Immigrants are accused of causing every social problem, and especially of taking jobs and services they are not entitled to. This is not true. Working people as a whole, including immigrants, pay a larger share of the tax burden than the rich and receive fewer benefits. The profits made from the work of immigrants and all workers are being taxed less and less and sometimes not at all. Immigrants don’t fire or hire people. They do not outsource jobs, downsize workplaces, raise prices or premiums. They are victims of big business too. For more jobs and services, we need to tax exploitative profits!

We need positive immigration reform.
History shows that as long as extremes of inequality exist between countries, labor migration will continue. The pro-corporate policies of our government that impoverish other nations must be changed. Immigration law should protect the interests of both immigrant and non-immigrant workers. Organized labor and community and religious groups urge the following constructive program for immigration reform:

• Legalization with a clear path to citizenship must be allowed for existing undocumented immigrants, and future immigrants, with a priority on family reunification.
• Immigrants must be able to participate in labor, religious, civic and cultural activities without fear of deportation.
• “Guest worker” programs have historically been prone to exploitation. Separate has never been equal. Instead, implement improved labor protections and stronger enforcement for immigrants and citizen workers.

Repressive policies like those proposed in HR 4437 must be rejected. They are unjust and counterproductive, and make immigrant workers more vulnerable to exploitation and other injustices.

Immigration policy is scheduled for debate in the Senate in February. Contact and urge your senators today to reject HR 4437 and all repressive anti-immigrant measures, and to vote for legalization of immigrants with a clear path to citizenship and full labor and civil rights for all people. Call the congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121.

Link: CPUSA Online

Although professing to oppose illegal immigration and "open borders," the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops likewise opposes HR 4437:

Do the U.S. bishops oppose any immigration legislation which has been introduced in Congress?

Yes. The U.S. bishops strongly oppose H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Protection Act of 2005, introduced by Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Representative Peter King (R-NY). H.R. 4437 passed the House of Representatives 239-182 on December 16, 2005. The legislation includes many harsh provisions which would bring undue harm to immigrants and their families. Among its many provisions, it would make unlawful presence a felony; subject anyone who assists an undocumented alien to criminal penalties; require mandatory detention of all aliens apprehended along the U.S. border, including children and families; and limit relief to asylum-seekers through an expansion of expedited removal.

Link: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

All of which contributes to the advancement of the Reconquista, or Mexican irredentist, movement in the Southwestern USA, spearheaded by La Voz de Aztlan, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), Mexica Movement, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and no doubt Mexican officialdom, which has shown no interest in tapping the illicit flow of its citizens into the United States but, rather, facilitates their northward invasion with units of the Mexican Army that regularly cross onto US territory. Villaraigosa, in particular, is a former chair of MEChA's chapter at the University of California at Los Angeles and a past district president of the communist-spawned American Civil Liberties Union.

The brown-shirted bolsheviks of the Mexican-American irredentist movement, who by no means represent patriotic Spanish-speaking, freedom-loving US citizens, have scheduled a mass action disruption of the US economy on either May 1, to coincide with the communist-inspired Day of the International Solidarity of Workers, or May 5, to coincide with the Cinco de Mayo celebration. Boycott organizers expect the neo-communist regimes of Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela, as well as the paleo-communist regime of Cuba to support the stated objectives: the collapse of the fascist Bush regime, the evacuation of the North American continent of all persons of European descent, and the establishment of a glorious, indigenous workers' paradise of happy, productive, global citizens who are in touch with their ancestral spirits.

Of course, merely to bring this information to the attention of the public is . . . gasp . . . racist, imperialist and insensitive. God forbid!

Meanwhile, in July a Communist is poised to assume the presidency of Mexico, the world's first socialist republic, predating the Soviet Union by several months. La Revolución moves forward!