Carolina Morning News

The author, Yeh Ling-Ling, is executive director of the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America, 1904 Franklin St., Suite 517, Oakland, Calif. For more information, visist www.diversityalliance.org

I am responding to the article in Wednesday's paper headlined, "2002, a year of changes for immigration."

The establishment of a Homeland Security Department does not mean that the U.S. is serious about protecting our national security.

Americans should wonder why Mexico is actively pushing for the acceptance of Mexican ID cards in many states, and amnesty and benefits for millions of illegal Mexican immigrants, and more guest worker programs.

This past June, a Zogby poll showed that 58 percent of Mexicans believe the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to them and 57 percent of Mexicans do not believe that they need U.S. permission to enter this country.

Not surprisingly, in 1997, Ernesto Zedillo, then president of Mexico, said in Chicago that the "Mexican nation extends beyond its territories enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important, a very important, part of it."

In 1995, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros said: "As goes the Latino population will go the state of California, and as goes the state of California will go the United States of America. ... The stakes are big. This is a fight worth making."

In the last decade, the Hispanic population in North Carolina increased by more than 600 percent.

Is Mexico using immigration to control American policies and, eventually, control the entire U.S.? We should remember that children born in the U.S. even of illegal immigrants and guest workers are U.S. citizens and can vote when they turn 18.

-- Anonymous, December 21, 2002

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and the white man thought he had taken the land for himself from the indians. LOL

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2002