Most of my posts on this blog are not that long-winded, but this one is, and it includes a number of links to review. So, read it at your leasure.To begin with, current U.S. Immigration policy is based on the attitudes of Demopublicans (Democrats and Republicans). Non-Indigenous American Demopublicans, particularly those of European ancestry, by-and-large hold the same attitudes about their place in America as Afrikanners did up until the end of South Africa's apartheid era, which is the illusion that they are just as "native" to America as Indigenous Americans are by viture of being born in America, or as even as indigenous to America as the white race of Germany is to Germany. Nevermind that the the United States and most other American nations of conquest were created out of brute force, genocide, and also to a great degree, slave labor. Therefore, from an Indigenous American traditionalist prospective, the nations of the Americas that were created out of European conquest are rogue nations, although their centuries of survival, industrialization , and among many of them mightiness, have gained them legitimacy globally.
Euro-American-centric Demopublicans hold a pervailing attitude that Americans of genetically mixed European ancestry make up a superior culture to pedigree European cultures, and that their nation, the United States of America, is the greatest nation on earth, even though the majority of them are not world-traveled enough to prove it to themselves. One cannot deny that some good things have evolved out of mainline American Yankee ingenuity such as advancements in medicine, science and technology that have bettered the human condition. And in spite of some of the rubbish it puts out, overall the American motion picture industry gets an "A" for its creativity. However, the majority of Americans take it for granted as a result of institutionalized Demopublican propaganda in the public school system and elsewhere, that the U.S. is the most free and prosperous country on the globe, when in fact there are some countries with greater individual and/or economic liberties. (Although the result of higher taxes and a significantly smaller population than that of the U.S., Canada currently is rated as having the highest standard of living in the world).
The majority of Americans ignore the fact that migration around the Americas on the part of Indigenous Americans has existed for thousands of years. Some indigenous tribes and nations have been more nomadic than others, yet practically all Indigenous Americans, whether frequently nomadic, seasonally migratory, or seldom migratory, have always looked upon migration for better living conditions as a natural right--just as natural as migration is on the part of many species of birds and animals. Most non-Indigenous Americans also buy into the Bering Strait myth, which asserts that all Indigenous American tribes originated in Asia and migrated to the originally void-of-humans Americas during an ice age. Therefore, American Indians are thus First Americans as opposed to Indigenous Americans,being that our ancient ancestors did not originate in the Americas. Yours truely takes this assumption to task in the December 2005 archives of this blog: (The Incredible Shrinking Bering Strait Myth). 
Being that they consider the United States and its borders that define it georgraphically as legitimate, the majority of Americans thus classify Indigenous American-blooded people from Latin America who enter U.S. territory via non-official ports of entry to live and work, as being "illegal invaders" or "illegal aliens," including those who enter the country documented with U.S. visas, but who overstay them after their expiration date.
Nevermind that Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and other great Indigenous American "warriors" looked upon whites as foreign invaders of ancient, traditional Indian territories and themselves as foreign invasion resistance fighters. Granted that there were engaged conflicts between some Indian nations over the centuries, and that some of those conflicts were over domain of territory. However, Indigenous Americans never went as far as invading Europe. Prior to the European invasion of America, major territorial invasions only took place on the Eurasian and north African continents, primarily on the part of Aryans (Persians who invaded Hindustan), Greeks, Romans, Turks, and Mongols (Ghangis Khan). Even the Aztec empire was relatively small compared to those that ecompassed Europe, north Africa, and Asia.
The following link goes to a webpage that features a conservative, right-wing, white American woman who reflects the attitudes of many mainstream Americans towards undocumented migrants from Mexico and other parts of Latin America. She also quotes a contemporary Comanche Indian with similar views based on his tribe's traditional, historical attitude towards other Indigenous American nations and foreigners:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=7272
I give the Comanche credit for telling it like it was. In the old days, the Comanches, including the Crow, Pawnee, Chiricahua Apaches, and the ancient Aztecs were nasty indios towards their indigenous neighbors.
Now here is link to a related commentary that makes more sense:
http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2006/03/statist-weasel-of-week.html
The failure to recognize traditional Mesoamerican migration as a natural right is not just due to ignorance and arrogance on the part of Demopublican society; it is also the result of self-racism towards Indianess on the part of Spaniardized Indians more commonly known for their racial mixture as mestizos, and pan-ethnically as hispanics and Latinos. Rather than go into detail about the roots of this self-racism myself, I have provided the following link to another site (Mexika Eagle Society) that does an excellent job of explaining the history of, Mestizaje and Self-Hate:
articleID=7272The bottom line is, just like the majority of "Native Americans" today, the majority of people of Latin American ancestry are mestizo by blood. People of Mexican and Central American origin by-and-large have more Indigenous American genes than they do European. However, the difference between they and those who identify as "American Indian," "Native American, " or in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries as "indígena," is that they prefer to only identify themselves by their national origin or "Latino" instead of a more indigenous identity for reasons explained in the link above. If the vast majority of people of Mexican and Central American mestizo origin would identify themselves as indigenous and also avoid being neo-Aztec wannabes like a lot of Chicanos do, those who migrate from Latin America to the U.S. would be looked more upon as Mesoamerican migrants instead of foreign immigrants.
As indicated previously, migration from Mexico and Central America to the U.S. today is rooted in ancient Mesoamerican migratory practices for the purpose of better survival. Call it "economics" these days if you want, but it's still about better survival.
Focusing on Mexico, that need for better survival is also the fault of the Mexican government and the Mexican voters who keep electing inefficiency and corruption to public office. Vicente Fox was not able to bring about enough positive radical changes because he was not agressive enough in his approach, and also due to the two major opposition parties voting down the majority of his proposed reforms all for the sake of partisan politics, even though Fox initially formed a largely tri-partisan cabinet after he became elected Presidente de la República.
Mexico could drastically reduce poverty in the nation and greatly improve the economy by offering private industry a low flat income tax rate in exchange for agreeing to pay their employees a minimum of 30 pesos (almost 3 U.S. dollars) per hour, which the majority of the them could afford to do and still make a decent profit, but which the vast majority choose not to do. A low flat tax would also encourage more businesses to report their income to Hacienda (the federal internal revenue collection agency), which many currently do not due to the current, more complex and costly tax system.
Some white Americans in particular are pro tough-on-illegal immigration and call for the militarzation of the southern border to help fight "the war on terror" because they think it's a good smoke screen for their fear of brown-skinned Indian-blooded people taking back America. (See related commentary:
http://indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412741
They are also actually afraid of the possibility of Al-Queda terrorists slipping across the border from Mexico into the U.S., even though Mexico has military checkpoints on all of its thoroughfares leading north about every one-hundred kilometers, and it is the meddlesome, globalist foreign policies of the Demopublican-elected government that agitates aggression from abroad in the first place.
Other Americans take the tough on illegal immigration stance because they believe that the undocumented suppress wages in too many American industries with their cheap labor, and take more from the economy in public services than they contribute to it. I have researched these issues and have listened to the debates myself for many years, and have come to the following conclusions:
- Approximately 80% per cent of all undocumented migrants/immigrants in the U.S. are from Mexico. This link provides accurate statistics as to how much thley contribute to the U.S. economy and how much they take from it in the way of public services:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/taxes.asp
- Undocs suppress wages in certain U.S. industries due to the low wages they are willing to work for, but the majority of them work in industries and perform low-skilled labor that most U.S.-born citizens do not want to engage in for comparable worth.
- Mexican residents of the northern Mexican border regions who are able to cross into the U.S. legally spend approximately 3 billion dollars a year in most U.S. counties that border Mexico.
- Indigenous-centric people from Mexico who migrate to the U.S. undocumented consider their migration to be no more than that of an act of civil disobediance against U.S. immigration law because they believe that they are just carrying on the natural, historical right of their ancestors in the way of Mesoamerican migration. See the following related links:
http://indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1090337206
http://indiancountry.com/content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096412864
- Mestizo-society-centric Mexicans who migrate to the U.S. undocumented also consider their migration to be no more than an act of civil disobediance against U.S. immigration law because upper Mesoamerica, which consists of the southrwestern United States, once belonged to Mexico that was lost to what most Mexicans consider an unjust war with their country initiated by the United States, and which ended in surrender in 1848.
Mexicans view the main enforcer of undocumented land migration from Mexico, the U.S. Border Patrol, to be nothing more than a contemporary version of the U.S. Cavalry whose purpose was to enforce Indian containment pograms, making Mexico, due to current U.S. immigration policy, a giant south-of-the-artificial border Indian reservation. The Mexican government favors a more liberal immigration policy on the part of the U.S. towards Mexican citizens, while at the same time it systematically deports Mayans from Central America, even though the Mayan nation includes southeastern Mexico. A case of hypocrisy and wanting your cake and eating it too.
- Undocumented migration to the U.S. from Mexico will always continue without interruption as long as Mexico continues to not develop a first world economy; as long as the U.S. maintains it's current immigration policy towards Mexican nationals, and as long as it does not increase its enforcement policies, such as heavily militarizing all 2000 miles of southern border, and cracking down on all industries that tend to hire the undocumented that would include much stiffer penalties for employers who do so.
Ideally, it would have made sense for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to include an immigration clause, which would have allowed U.S., Mexican, and Canadian citizens to live and work in each other's countries with minimal requirements as is the policy with the European Union and the five-nation South American free trade alliance. This would have forced Mexico to increase wages to a decent standard of living in order to prevent a large exodous and brain drain of both skilled profesionals and low-skilled workers. But until Mexico gets its economic house in order and the Demopublicans decide to quit playing Cowboys and Indians with Mexico immigration-wise, there will continue be an illegal Indian dilemma indefinately; that is unless the majority of American voters some day by miracle get fed up with Demopublican politics-as-usual, and replace Republicans and Democrats with Libertarians and Greens, (the third and fourth largest parties in the U.S.), both of whom favor a liberal immigration policy with Mexico.
Libertarian: http://www.lp.org/issues/immigration.shtml
Green: http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/socjustice.html#1002510
In the meantime, grant the undocs that are already in the country amnesty, and create a guest worker program for those who are still in Mexico and want to perform guest worker program-designated jobs, which would consist of those that most U.S.-born citizens do not want to engage in for comparable worth. That would at least decrease the ongoing dilemma of contemporary U.S. immigration law, which treads upon the ancient natural law of indigenous Mesoamerican migration.
This all boils down to a case of racially foreign and colonized inhabitants of the Americas suppressing the ancient migratory practices of the racially indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. Here's a final satirical look at the situation:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/04/05/fiorephobia.DTL
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