Mexico's Cultural Imperialism
Relationship Between Mexico's Cultural Imperialism
and America's Failure to Enforce Immigration Laws
Mexico is unable to manage its own government.
Mexico is unable to educate and employ its own citizens.
There is an economic diaspora of Mexico's poor and dark-skinned peoples to America.
Mexico disregards the national sovereignty and geographic territory of America by permitting illegal emmigration.
American businesses disregard American immigration laws.
American government fails to enforce its immigration laws.
Mexicans and Mexican Americans in America become major contributors to the Mexican economy through remittances and through purchase of Mexican exports.
1970's: Mexican foreign policy begins promoting the development of Mexican culture and Mexican national identity among Mexicans and Mexican Americans residing in America.
1975: American government recognized Hispanics [and Asians] as a victimized minority by amending the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Hispanic electoral districts were then created.
1986: American government passed the Simpson-Rodino Act which granted amnesty to over 2 million illegal immigrants.
Mexico begins to re-define itself as a borderless, cultural, collective unit as well as a geographic territory.
1990: Mexican culture-based foreign policy was made official when the Program for Mexican Communities Abroad was established by Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.
1996: Mexico declared that Mexicans who become American citizens are still recognized by Mexico as Mexican nationals.
Fostering cultural pluralism and the self-esteem of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in America is now regarded as the joint responsibility of the American and Mexican governments.
2007: President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, says, "Mexico does not end at its borders."
2008: Calderón tells the American government how to manage the illegal immigration problem: "It is clearly important to have comprehensive immigration reform, and that comes at the federal level," (i.e., state rights and city ordinances should not go into effect when the federal government refuses to enforce current immigration laws).
2015: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and other Hispanics will form a majority in California and Texas.
Wave of Consciousness - Mexico's Cultural Imperialism.
