U.S.’s bilingual education hastens Mexican conquest of Southwest

Monday, September 22, 1997 U.S.’s bilingual education hastens
Mexican conquest of Southwest EDUCATION: Spanish-language media
propagates immigration, ‘Reconquista’ of western states

By Glenn Spencer

The debate over bilingual education can only be understood
within the political climate of California. Those who believe this
is a debate only of educational methods are not looking at the big
picture and the motives behind those who are struggling to maintain
Spanish-language instruction.

To understand the characteristics of the political environment,
it is useful to examine some examples of how the Los Angeles
English- and Spanish-language media differ.

In March, our organization, Voice of Citizens Together (VCT),
held a rally at the U.S.-Mexico border. We were there to support
the construction of a new fence system which was included in the
Illegal Immigration Reform and Legal Immigrant Responsibility Act
of 1996, approved by Congress and signed by the President.

With more than 500 people lined up, it was the largest such
rally ever held at the border.

La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United
States, ran photos of the rally in its March 23 edition. It showed
one sign carried by a counter-demonstrator which read, "Uncle Sam
Stole Our Land." The Los Angeles Times didn’t mention it.

In June, VCT ran a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times
exposing "Reconquista," Mexico’s plan to retake the Southwestern
United States, and Bill Clinton’s complicity in the process during
the 1996 election campaign. Spanish-language television Channel 34
(Univision) covered the ad as a major news event, including an
interview with the Mexican consul general, Angel Pescador Osuna.
There was not a word about the ad in the English-language media,
electronic or print.

Over the past six years, VCT has been campaigning to stop
illegal immigration. Time and time again, our activities have been
covered only by the Spanish-language media. The coverage is clearly
biased and many times VCT has been characterized as skinhead Nazi
thugs.

In one telling episode, Sergio Bendixen, a commentator on
Channel 52 (Telemundo – Los Angeles), told his Spanish-language
audience that Latinos were facing a situation similar to that faced
by the Jews in the early days of Hitler. He suggested it was time
to consider drastic action.

Later, I was a guest, together with Mr. Bendixen, on "Which Way
L.A.?" – a popular news interview program on FM radio in Los
Angeles, hosted by Warren Olney. When I questioned him about the
Hitler comment, Bendixen denied ever having made it. He was not
telling the truth. We delivered tapes of his Channel 52 appearance
to Warren Olney at KCRW which proved that he was not being
forthright.

Los Angeles is a city of two worlds, the English-language world
and the Spanish-language world. They get different views of the
unfolding immigration crisis.

Spanish-language TV is replete with stories about immigration
and how to beat the system.

English language TV, for the most part, ignores it.

According to the Los Angeles Times, when she was head of the Los
Angeles Unified School Board, Leticia Quezada directed that a memo
be sent to all teachers in the district instructing them that
parents of school children not be encouraged to speak English at
home but rather continue to use their native language.

Quezada now works for the Mexican Cultural Institute of Los
Angeles, an arm of the Mexican government (California report CT-2,
Section 12586, revealed that $128,000 of the $222,000 budget was
funded by the Mexican government). She was working for them when
she sat on the committee which picked Ruben Zacarias to be the
Superintendent of Los Angeles Public Schools. Zacarias has ties to
the Mexican government, which is attempting to influence U.S.
educational policies.

The news on Spanish-language television isn’t objective; it’s
propaganda. At the Southwest Voter Registration and Education
Project Meeting in June, Loyola Marymount professor Fernando Guerra
talked about Spanish-language media. He observed, "the typical
(Latino) household going to vote: They read La Opinion, watch
Channel 34, belong to unions and attend church. Their Mechista kids
(members of MEChA) come home from college – a convergence of
forces. The power is Latino-centric. That is why Latino elected
officials are so important."

Evidence is mounting that Mexican migration north into the
American Southwest involves more than just economic motivation.
Speaking before a Latino conference on the effects of Proposition
187, Art Torres, now the Chairman of the California Democrat Party,
said, "(Proposition) 187 was the last gasp of white America in
California." Writing in Atlantic Monthly in November 1995, Prof.
David Kennedy of Stanford observed that: "The possibility looms
that in the next generation or so we will see a kind of Chicano
Quebec take shape in the American Southwest." He called it
"Reconquista."

Part of the plan of Reconquista is to make sure that Mexicans
retain Spanish as their primary language. In this way, they will be
dependent on the Spanish-language media and the Sergio Bendixens of
that world for their information and guidance.

Bilingual education is part of the plan of conquest. In my
opinion, it is not important that the children really learn English
well enough to perform in the world of work; it is only important
that they speak English well enough to take the jobs that require a
bilingual capability.

If Reconquista is a reality and if the demographic data are
reliable, current trends will result in the Balkanization of
California followed by the creation of a separate state linked to
Mexico. The use of Spanish, especially in our schools, is designed
to hasten that day.

If it is to survive, the United States must take some immediate
steps. First, the border with Mexico must be shut down. The
Maquiladores plants, which do little more than draw Mexicans north
for an eventual border crossing, must be closed and moved to the
southern part of Mexico where the people and natural resources are.
There must be a humane but effective repatriation of all Mexican
nationals now in the United States. Naturalization of Mexicans must
be halted until the question of dual citizenship is addressed. We
must end the practice of granting automatic citizenship to children
of illegal aliens.

The United States must also end all bilingual education
programs. Students must be taught fundamental lessons only in
English. Finally, the broadcast of other-than-English programs must
be halted immediately.