Reconquista

• Regional: North America: Regions: US-Mexico Border  (59)
• Society: Issues: Territorial Disputes  (375)

American Patrol - Reproduction of a full-page ad printed in the Los Angeles Times in 1997.

Americans Protest La Reconquista - Photographs and quotes from the 1998 Washington, D.C. rally.

America's 'Palestinians' - Expresses concern that Mexican nationalists are "gearing up a movement to carve out of the southwestern United States - a region (called Aztlan) including all of Bush's home state of Texas"

Fox Plans Reconquista. Bush Plans.? - Argues that "The Fox plan [of unrestricted immigration] is an absurdity on its face, because it would not only open up the United States to the unlimited drug smuggling and other unpleasantness bred in Mexico but also because only Mexicans would make use of its open immigration proposal. "

Los Angeles is a Mexican city says Mayor Hahn - Article from Aztlan.Net quoting Mayor Hahn as saying "Our city is a Mexican city, and Mexican Americans have greatly shaped our cultural, political and commercial landscape."

Mexico's Plans for the U.S. - Argues that "Our southern neighbor is not shy about expressing its intention to conquer the American Southwest, which Mexico regards as territory lost in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo in 1846"

Multiculturalism, Immigration and Aztlan - "Nothing more vividly testifies against that romantic faith in America's ability to continuously assimilate new members than the events of October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000 people marched beneath "a sea of Mexican flags" protesting Proposition 187, a referendum measure that would deny many state benefits to illegal immigrants and their children. "

Professor Predicts "Hispanic Homeland" - A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.

Is Mexico reconquering U.S. southwest? - "A radical Hispanic movement's dream to retake the southwestern United States is becoming a reality with the aid of Mexican and U.S. policies, according to some immigration watchers." [WorldNetDaily] (January 4, 2002)

A Solution to the U.S.-Mexico Border Problem - "Here we have Mexican infiltrators (Oh! Do you prefer "migrants"?) pouring across into the United States in search of work and a better life. The American government is doing little to stem that tide. The Mexican leadership hails those workers as "heroes" for carrying some kind of abstract isotopes of a borderless Mexico farther into the north." Article by Barry Farber [NewsMax] (June 19, 2001)

Mexico Eats U.S. a Bit at a Time - "Will my grandchildren open schoolbooks from MY youth one day and say: "Good Lord. America used to have that big hunk of land in the Southwest, and I think Grandpa even knew the names for different parts of it, like California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and even Utah." - Article by Barry Farber (June 12, 2001)

U.S.'s bilingual education hastens Mexican conquest of Southwest - "Spanish-language media propagates immigration, 'Reconquista' of western states" (September 22, 1997)