Secretary Rice, as a citizen of Idaho, I am asking you to intervene at the Department of State and deny the Mexican government permission to site the 48th Mexican Consulate in our state. As a citizen of the United States, I am asking you to uphold Article 55 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Article 55 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
RESPECT FOR THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE RECEIVING STATE
1. Without prejudice to their privileges and immunities, it is the duty of all persons [consul personnel] enjoying such privileges to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving state. They also have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of the State. (1)
Heather McDonald, writing for the Manhattan Institute’s magazine, the City Journal, describes the activities of the consulates, “Mexican consulates are engineering a back door amnesty for their illegal migrants and trying to discredit American immigration enforcement—activities clearly beyond diplomatic bounds.” (2) The American people deserve to know why the Mexican government, permitted by the Department of State, continues to openly interfere in the internal affairs of our country with the intention of subverting immigration law, thwarting immigration enforcement and attempting to amnesty Mexican illegal aliens without action by our Congress. Secretary Rice, you could end the Mexican government’s assault on American political institutions and on our rule of law immediately, if you so chose.
Lobbying state and local governments, demanding the acceptance of the Mexican government issued Matricula Consular Card as a legal form of identification, harassing government officials for U.S. taxpayer funded benefits and services for Mexican illegal aliens, intervening to stop deportations, including criminal aliens, and fighting against immigration enforcement legislation are blatant abuses of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, ratified in 1969 by the United States Senate, in part, to protect our nation from interference in domestic policy by foreign governments.
Issuance of the Matricula Consular Card by consulates is commonplace for identifying and tracking, if need be, their citizens abroad. However, Mexican consulates distribute the card with the intention of using it to gain de facto amnesty for illegal aliens. Consulates lobby local officials, such as police departments and city councils, for acceptance of the card as a legal identifying document. (2) The Mexican government believes the illegal alien carrying a Matricula meets the requirement of possessing identification necessary to be legally present in the U.S. They also lobby for the card’s acceptance for purposes of accessing taxpayer benefits and entitlements, eligibility for in-state tuition at colleges and universities, the ability to open lines of credit and to obtain driver’s licenses (more documentation for purported legal status), which may lead to such activities as illegal aliens voting in American elections. (3) If services are denied illegal aliens, consulates may threaten boycotts of companies by Mexicans in the states in which they reside. (2 )
Secretary Rice, as you know, the issuance of identification documents to provide proof of legal residence by any nation other than the United States government is illegal, and the sham procedure carried out by consulates for obtaining the Matricula is an affront to every U.S. citizen and legal immigrant. The Matricula may be obtained without official verification of breeder documents, permitting the issuing of multiple cards to one individual. Often provided on the same day as requested, unchecked against official Mexican databases, the card is essentially given to all comers, even criminal aliens. (4)The lure of the Matricula Card is no doubt an attempt by the Mexican government to encourage and abet further illegal immigration. Secretary Rice, I fail to understand why the executive branch of our government is willing to turn a blind eye to the fraud being perpetrated on innocent Americans by the Mexican government.
Fighting against federal, state and local immigration law enforcement and legislation is another breach of international treaty used by the Mexican government to undermine America’s right to sovereign governance. The lobbying of state legislators or local officials includes consul generals testifying at hearings, harassment of citizens and local officials, and gathering groups of vocal illegal aliens to be present during legislative debate. Often consulate officials directly lobby lawmakers, especially those of Mexican descent. Consulate officials also make demands of government officials if they feel an illegal alien’s rights have been violated during apprehension or arrest, sometimes leading to the prosecution of law enforcement officers. (5)
Arrogantly flaunting the U.S. justice system, Mexican consulate officials fight the prosecution of criminal illegal aliens as well as any illegal alien deportation proceeding, advancing the notion American law is unenforceable against Mexican nationals. Paying for the legal services of illegal aliens charged in U.S. courts constitutes interference in the host country’s judicial proceedings, yet consulates engage in this activity also. (2) Done in the hopes of forming Mexican colonies of legal and illegal aliens within the sovereign United States, unanswerable to U.S. law but eager to control its direction.
In fact, Mexican consuls lobby and often succeed in incorporating Mexican history and culture in American classrooms in an effort to keep the illegal alien population distinct from the country they occupy and to regularize the presence of another civilization within our borders by starting early, with American children. (2)
The Mexican government encourages illegal border crossings, accompanied by such crimes as identity theft, which facilitate their citizens remaining in our country because they depend on the remittances of wages to Mexico by illegal alien labor. Secretary Rice, illegal labor undercuts the wages of American workers. Communities suffer a loss of dollars that would be spent in their economies by American workers, but instead are sent to Mexico. Needless crimes are perpetrated on American children and adults, from identity theft to sexual offenses, pedophilia, rape and murder, rampant in the illegal alien population because of open borders. The American taxpayer picks up the bill for entitlements, such as welfare in some cases, schooling, emergency room care, maternity care, jails and court costs.
The Mexican government seeks our abundant services for their illegal population while denying U.S. laws pertain to the same citizens who have broken the law by entering this country or have over-stayed their visas and expired green cards. Under section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996, a method of tracking the departure of every alien leaving the United States was supposed to be put in place.(6)That was 12 years ago, Secretary Rice!
Mexican President Calderon has announced his “zero tolerance policy” directive to Mexican consulates within the United States. According to Karen Aviles, writing in La Jornada, within this declaration is the establishment of 50 consulates on American soil, the promise of increased funding for a “networks of lawyers” to fight immigration enforcement efforts and plans to forge alliances with organizations in the United States for the purpose of directing immigration reform and gathering enough political clout to be a political force within our country. (7)
Mexican consulates exist to further the agenda of Mexico to colonize the United States with an intentionally unassimilated, low-skilled foreign population, putting our beloved country on a fast track to third world status through overpopulation and debt. The famous quote of Mexican President Calderon, “Wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico”, haunts me. Indeed, this is the desired end game of the Mexican government, the steady flow of their population into America until our culture, our language, and our Constitution no longer exist. Will you be proud to have this as your legacy, Secretary Rice?
A very concerned American citizen,
Carolyn Cooke
1. The MULTILATERALS PROJECT, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH444.txt
2. Mexico’s Undiplomatic Diplomats by Heather McDonald
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_4_mexico.html
3. Mexico’s Defense of Illegal Immigrants
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters_defense
4. ID’s for Illegals The ‘Matricula Consular’ Advances Mexico’s Immigration Agenda
http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/back303.html
5. Mexico demanded U.S. prosecute sheriff, agents
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54243
6. Immigration laws on the books (Washington Times Editorial)
http://www3.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070614-085513-1432r.htm
No Coyote Needed: U.S. Visas Still an Easy Ticket in Developing Countries by David Seminara
http://www.cis.org/articles/2008/back208.html
7. Mexico’s New Meddling Plan: “Zero Tolerance” Legal Assault On American
Patriots http://www.vdare.com/awall/080119_memo.htm
Cambiará México su estrategia para frenar abusos contra migrantes en EU
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/01/08/index.php?section=politica&article=00
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