Congressman McClintock’s Response to President Calderon (delivered on House floor)
Response to President Calderon
House Chamber, Washington, D.C.
May 20, 2010M. Speaker:
I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today.
The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderon’s behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude.
It is highly inappropriate for the President of Mexico to lecture Americans on American immigration policy, just as it would be for Americans to lecture Mexico on its laws.
It is obvious that President Calderon does not understand the nature of America or the purpose of our immigration law.
Unlike Mexico’s immigration law — which is brutally exclusionary — the purpose of America’s law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans.
Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation.
A century ago President Teddy Roosevelt put it this way. He said:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
That is how we have built one great nation from the people of all the nations of the world.
The largest group of immigrants now comes from Mexico. A recent RAND discovered that during most of the 20th Century, while our immigration laws were actually enforced, assimilation worked and made possible the swift attainment of the American dream for millions of immigrants seeking to escape conditions in Mexico.
That is the broader meaning of our nation’s motto, “e pluribus unum” – from many people, one people, the American people.
But there is now an element in our political structure that seeks to undermine that concept of “E Pluribus Unum.” It seeks to hyphenate Americans, to develop linguistic divisions, to assign rights and preferences based on race and ethnicity, and to elevate devotion to foreign ideologies and traditions, while at the same time denigrating American culture, American values and American founding principles.
In order to do so, they know that they have to stop the process of assimilation. In order to do that, they must undermine our immigration laws.
It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress.
Arizona has not adopted a new immigration law. All it has done is to enforce existing law that President Obama refuses to enforce. It is hardly a radical policy to suggest that if an officer on a routine traffic stop encounters a driver with no driver’s license, no passport, and who doesn’t speak English, that maybe that individual might be here illegally.
And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws – I reply that we don’t need to reform them – we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does.
Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.
Until then, I would politely invite him to have the courtesy while a guest of this Congress to abide by the fundamental rules of diplomacy between civilized nations not to meddle in each other’s domestic debates.
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Posted by loboinok on May 21, 2010 1:44 am
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To that I give a stand up ovation. They should have a list of names published showing each and every person who cheered while America’s nose was being rubbed in it, disgusting to have Americans cheer while being insulted.
TF, at the top of that list – BARACK OBAMA!
If Washington were alive today he’d beat Obama black and blue!
Brilliant. Even Charles Krauthammer would be impressed with this.
I can’t wait for a retort from the other side.
After all the industry and money sent to Mexico by the US and the amnesty of 3 million promised as a one time amnesty by the congress to solve the immigration problem and the forgiveness of loans, the Mexican President slams our laws and throws blame at US citizens while speaking to the US Congress. Congressman McClintock is right.
If only Teddy Roosevelt were alive today,,and in the White House.
The LEFT in this country is committing Treason Daily and getting away with it, and using the ACLU and the UN to aide them.
This country is going down the tubes, and at the head of the line is our worthless so-called President who allows it all! We have that idiot Achmenijhad (sorry about the spelling) who speaks at Columbia and now we have this idiot Mexican President lecture us about how we ought to act. Two of the biggest hypocrits in this world. Look at how either of them treat the people whom they rule over! And worse yet, even than that, is the idiot we have for a President who allows it to happen! My God, how he must hate this country! He really must have been listening when his pastor Jeremiah Wrong said, “Not God Bless America, but instead God-Damn America.” I bet Barama stood up and cheered when he heard that, An Amen and Hallelujah to that!
Our nation faces a great peril from within. The elite political class centered in the capital have long since turned their backs on our rights and freedoms. They are in power for themselves. They must be driven from office, hunted down by prosecuters and sent to jail for their myriad crimes. We must clearly win the next three or four elections with overwhelming numbers to beat these parasites into oblivion.
Congressman McClintock is the only voice of reason that I have heard thus far. Where are the rest of our representatives? They by now should be up in arms not only against the Pres of Mexico but also the Pres of the US! We have never in the past bowed down to any foreign power for any reason! Lately it seems that’s all we do! I for one, can hardly wait for the next election!
My heart aches more as each day passes. Things have turned so fast and so radicly I feel as if I have gone through the looking glass with Alice. I miss a little bit more of my America with every sunrise. I remember when that time of day was a wonderous new beginning filled to the brim with hope and gratitude. Now each day is worse than the last. We have to stand up for America and make her shine again as never before. We owe her that!! Let’s make 2010 the year of the 2nd Revolution!!