Since the early 1990s this writer has focused attention on people who hate Mexicans, some for racist reasons, some for ethnic hatred, some for just plain white supremacy reasons. Now, these people have come out from under their rocks for all to see.

While many Americans seethe privately about Mexicans and where they come from, Mexico, as well as Mexican history, Mexican religion and Mexican economic, social and personal contact with America and Americans, few have publicly manifested their hatred and profound anti-Mexican racism in public. It wasn’t polite.

Polite American society no longer tolerates public racism like it used to before the civil rights revolution. That revolution was fueled by the United States Supreme Court decision in a critical Texas ruling (Hernandez v. Texas 347 U.S. 475) in which it ruled official governmental discrimination against people of Mexican origin was illegal.

That decision took anti-Mexican racism out of the state capitols and buried in the minds of some individuals

Pat Buchanan – Nativist

In the early 90s, however, it surfaced in public discourse with the emotional and hysterical campaign by people like Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, a group labeled the Halloween Coalition, that arose to fight the North American free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Ross Perot

“The Mexicans are coming, the Mexicans are coming” became Ross Perot s 1992 and 1996 Presidential campaign themes. Pat Buchanan tried it in 2000 and again in 2004. Last year, dozens of Republican congressional candidates, some incumbents, campaigned against Mexicans in thinly veiled “anti-illegal alien” campaigns.

They failed miserably. Perot and Buchanan were slaughtered (giving us Bill Clinton in 1992). Buchanan received less than one half of one percent of the presidential vote.

J.D. Hayworth

Republican hysteric congressman J.D. Hayworth was slaughtered in a Republican district as was his fellow hysteric, Randy Graf, who lost in an open Republican seat partly because he was endorsed by the Minutemen and former Klansman David Duke. Other hard line Mexican haters in Congress defeated and replaced by Democrats.

These losers were all open about their hatred but they managed to couch their hatred and racist feelings by claiming they had little against Mexicans; they only were against illegal aliens. By claiming they didn’t hate Mexicans, even though they did, they managed to cover up their racism behind terms like “sovereignty,” “open borders,” “American jobs,” “What part of illegal don’t you understand?” ad infinitum.

Now, in 2007 in the wake of their 2006 electoral disaster, the haters are coming out more publicly than ever in a last ditch effort to destroy Mexico, its people and its relations with the United States.

Mark Krikorian

The Center for Immigration studies (CIS) had a public presentation this week In San Diego, the largest American city on the Mexican border. It included panelists Professor George Grayson (College of William and Marry, Virginia), S. Lynne Walker, longtime correspondent from Mexico for the San Diego-based Copley Press and CIS Executive Director, Mark Krikorian. The panel was moderated by former United States Attorney and Undersecretary of the Treasury, Peter Nunez, who serves as CIS Chairman.

John Tanton

Note: The CIS was founded by John Tanton, defined by many as the most effective bigot in America and a prime Mexican hater. He also founded a publication, Social Quarterly, in an effort to legitimize racism; he founded NumbersUSA, another anti-immigrant group. He also founded the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR). He used racist Pioneer Fund money to start up FAIR.

When he founded CIS, he installed as its head Mark Krikorian who worked for Tanton at FAIR. The CIS is theoretically a non-partisan “think tank.” It is not.

It is vehemently anti-immigrant, legal and illegal. If there was any doubt, here are ideas proposed by Mark Krikorian at the presentation.

Thousands of Mexicans cross the border every day in San Diego to spend $3-billion a year on goods and services in San Diego annually; consider further that an estimated 50-75,000 Mexicans legally cross the border every day to legally work in San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles counties.

First, Krikorian demands that the United States “insulate ourselves” from our largest neighbor, Mexico. In rejecting the idea that the side-by-side economies of America s 7th largest city, San Diego, and Mexico s fourth largest city, Tijuana, were economically interdependent, Krikorian said, “It, frankly, is a parasitic phenomenon” and that, it is “fundamentally in conflict with the interests of the United States.”

San Diego Union: “He (Krikorian) also suggested getting rid of border-crossing cards that (legally) allow Mexicans who go through a screening process to enter the United States to go shopping or visit family as well as taking away green cards from people who live in Mexico and cross the border to work every day.”

There it is, on the table for all to see. Prohibit legal Mexican border-crossers from crossing to do business, visit doctors, work or go to the world famous San Diego Zoo. Why? Will stopping legal Mexican border-crossers and workers from coming to San Diego, El Paso and Brownsville enhance American security? Will a fairy godmother pour billions of dollars into San Diego to make up what it will lose if such a program of border crossing denials is implemented?

What we have here is pure deep-seated racism, the likes of which was exposed in Hernandez v. Texas. Mr. Krikorian reveals what he and the CIS are all about.

Stopping legal Mexican visitors and workers from crossing the border boggles the mind. What part of legal don’t these people understand? Legality, you see, means nothing to the CIS, Krikorian and their fellow travelers.

Reason: Mexicans are Mexicans and they have a different skin color, speak Spanish and, as Catholics, worship differently than the White Anglo Saxon Protestants who are behind Armenian-origin Krikorian and his English-origin boss, John Tanton.

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Reposted from Cafe Con Leche Republicans with the author’s permission – original link

Raoul Contreras Lowery

Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

by Raoul Lowery Contreras (reposted with permission from Cafe Con Leche Republicans – link)

President Barack Hussein Obama is kicking Mexico around, again. It must be campaign-for-reelection time.

We know that Presidential-appointed politicians supervised a massive gun-running program to Mexico benefitting the drug cartels. And that even after the Department of Justice Inspector General’s 18-month investigation that revealed the wildly unsuccessful program littered Northern Mexico and Arizona with dead bodies not a single Democrat office holder has been fired.

We know that during his initial campaign for President Barack Obama let everyone know that he wanted to renegotiate the fabulously successful North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that was instrumental in tripling trade between the U.S., Mexico and Canada and was critical to the creation of 20-million jobs President Clinton claimed between 1994 and 2000. Obama took the AFL/CIO propaganda line that NAFTA stole millions of American jobs and sent them to Mexico. That was untrue. Over its first ten years of operation, 50,000 jobs a year were documented to have been lost because of NAFTA which hardly balances out to the 20-million-plus American jobs created during its first six years.

Obama was just talking politics, for he sent a secret emissary to a Canadian Consul in Chicago to inform him that his renegotiation talk was just campaign mumbo-jumbo and to not worry about any renegotiation which Canada and Mexico were against.

So, now that Obama is running for reelection he desperately needs the State of Florida to vote for him again because if he loses Florida to Mitt Romney Obama probably loses the election. What does that have to do with Obama’s vendetta against Mexico? The answer: TOMATOES!

According to the New York Times (September 27^th, 2012), one in every two tomatoes consumed in the U. S. comes from Mexico, mostly through Arizona.

The Times: “The United States Department of Commerce signaled then that it might be willing to end a 16-year-old agreement between the United States and some Mexican growers that has kept the price of Mexican tomatoes relatively low for American consumers. American (mostly Floridian) tomato growers say the price has been so low that they can barely compete.”

Florida’s tomato growers used to sell $500 million dollars worth of tomatoes in the U.S. The Mexicans, however, have organized their tomato growing and marketing to such a high degree that Florida’s tomato crop only brings in $250-million.

Bruno Ferrari, the economy minister of Mexico, told the Times that Mexico’s tomato exports to the United States had more than tripled to $1.8 billion since the agreement of 1996. He told the Times that the Mexican tomato industry supports 350,000 jobs. Trade exerts recall the high tariffs Mexico slapped on United States producers of potatoes, pork and toilet paper — $2.4 billion worth of goods — during a trade fight over trucking that began in 2009 when Obama became President.

The Teamster-union backed Obama trucking fight with Mexico caused potato exports to Mexico to fall by more than 35 percent and growers lost $64 million in revenue as Mexicans shifted buying to Canada, the other NAFTA partner. American pork producers estimate that if Mexico slaps tariffs on pork, they will not only lose business to a major market but simply be unable to handle the millions of dollars they will lose if Mexico retaliates because of tomato import restrictions.

Obama’s  Commerce Department will not, of course, admit that its move to respond to complaints from Florida is political but with regulations calling for the Department of Commerce to announce a decision on the complaints be made 40 days after publication, just before the election, only  a chimpanzee would think this is not political.

Given, then, that (A) Obama actively campaigned against NAFTA one of the world’s largest and most successful trade agreements with Canada and Mexico, and (B) the Obama Administration created a gun-running program that delivered more than 2500 American weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and caused hundreds of Mexicans and at least one American to die; and (C) instigated a 2009 attack on a  cross-border trucking agreement that was part of the 1994 NAFTA agreement that caused American farmers and industrial producers to lose millions of dollars worth of business and lost jobs – Obama’s very public vendetta against Mexico and Mexicans must come to an end.

If Obama is successful in his attack against Mexican tomatoes, millions of Americans will have to pay the higher prices American retailers will need to charge for inferior Florida tomato products. Higher prices mean fewer tomatoes will be sold at higher prices and millions of dollars that consumers currently keep to spend on something other than higher food prices will flow into the hands of a few Florida families.

Higher food prices and fewer Mexicans working; guess where unemployed Mexicans go to look for work.

Editors note: as with all blog postings that appear with a by-line, the opinions presented are the author’s and not necessarily the positions of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.