Let’s face it: Austria has become a banana republic, held hostage by clerico-fascists and real ones.

BTW: Did you read this weekend’s “Standard”? Petzi Westenthaler (A.K.A. Hojac) is at it again…

But leave it up to him to interject into a European argument about immigration with an example that villifies America.

Wasn’t the Mexican state the successor state to New Spain?

In any case, what Mexico’s experience proves–losing California, Texas, and New Mexico in the north, gaining Chiapas in the south–is that unclear and undefedned borders tend to be mobile, especially when motivated immigrants supported by powerful states are involved. Surprise, surprise.

At the time of Mexico’s independence from Spain, Texas was Spanish territory, and sparsely populated at that. The Spanish government granted the first Anglo permits for Texas, not Mexico, via Moses Austin. At the time of Mexican independence, Mexico was also granting permits for settlers to Texas, because no Mexican wanted to move there. So began a competition for land and resources. Mexico lost. It’s that simple.

The idea that a Mexican populated Texas was covertly invaded by Americans and stolen is false, as is Scott’s whole ‘The enemy within’ blather. But leave it up to him to interject into a European argument about immigration with an example that villifies America. Hell, he’d of been better off using Canada as a counter example.

And why do you leave links to CNN?

Look, your statements are patently absurd. The whole history of Mexico is one of ‘crossing borders as immigrants’ and declaring ‘independence’, covertly or otherwise. Ask the Chiapas:

When Central America achieved its independence from Mexico in 1823, western Chiapas was annexed to Mexico. More of current day Chiapas was transferred after the disintegration of the Central American Federation in 1842, and the remainder of the current state taken from Guatemala in the early 1880s by President Porfirio Díaz.

So yes I can read, but as usual, you put your ignorance on display for the sake of a cheapshot at America.

Point is that Mexico is at the least as grevious an offender of native poulations as the US, hence the hilarious absurdity of Martens ignorant comments or the Mexican governments for that matter.

Then you don’t know much. Mexico itself has been acting this way ever since the Conquistadores set forth on the continent. That’s the real irony. To say nothing of the fact that illegal immigration in Mexico is a felony.