Reconquista Immigration Issues

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• - "Spanish-language media propagates immigration, 'Reconquista' of western states"
  
• - 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
  
• - Discussion of the evolution of the bilingual education debate from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968). Covers concerns of reconquista.
  
• - University of New Mexico student organization which encourages the independence of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican North. Site includes related news items and maps.
  
• - 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"
  
• - Article by Barry Farber [NewsMax]
  
• - Newslinks and quotes expressing concern about Mexican immigration.
  
• - 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"
  
• - 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."
  
• - Article by Barry Farber
  
• - Mexico's Dream of 'Retaking' the Southwest
  
• - "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"
  
• - Reproduction of a full-page ad printed in the Los Angeles Times in 1997.
  
• - "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]
  
• - 1998 Rally against immigration
  
• - Links, quotes, and videos on Reconquista.