The actions by the Minutemen, Save Our State and other Anti-Immigration (Anties) activist groups sparked a renaissance of the Civil Rights movement and brought many organizations together to work towards a common goal. On May 14, 2005, Chicanos were joined by a diverse alliance of several organizations in protest of the SOS attempt to dictate their will on the Chicano community of Baldwin Park.

Throughout the United States, Chicanos, joined by a host of multicultural organizations, have stood firmly against the Anties. Support in our resistance to the oppression of racism has even come from organizations in Canada, Cuba and other countries. Our efforts have become a united resistance against man’s inhumanity towards a defenseless population.

This unifying effect has been inspiring and what occurred in response to the Anties shall be written in the annals of the History of Civil Rights Movement in America. This united resistance is an early announcement to the rest of the world of what the real Heart of America feels and the direction they wish the United States to take in the future.

The other effect this has had, though not a positive one, is that our government has misdirected us to focus on a non-issue. Many of us became aware that we outnumbered the Anties; we demonstrated that they had strong affiliations with, and even held dual membership in, Race Supremacy groups. We showed everyone that many of the Anties are known hate groups and the American public withdrew their support of these groups.

We celebrated our victory, but much to our surprise, our government, by a rightwing partisan vote, will initiate the building of a 700-mile long fence along the Mexican/US border. We showed America’s opposition to the Anties and even the President called the Anties vigilantes, yet the will of the Anties is to be favored by our government.

Knowing that our borders are as porous as the US and Mexico want them to be the fence can only be construed as a psychological tactic. The fence is more of a distracter from graver issues than a panacea for unregulated migration. The fence will serve to quell the rhetoric from Anties and divert the united resistance to an issue that has nothing to do with issues needing attention.

What are the causes that drive Mexicans out of Mexico?

There is always a portion of the population that will migrate, but in Mexico’s case many persons want to escape severe poverty, discrimination against the Indigenous and the lack of government assistance to communities for maintaining a functional infrastructure.

Why is the US so readily giving up a labor resource when three major industries supposedly rely on undocumented workers?

Maybe there is no real labor resource and the number of undocumented workers is so insignificant that it won’t affect those industries. Maybe a plan has already been developed that will ensure the needed labor resource for the industries that hire undocumented workers.

Why is Mexico resistant to the fence? This only raises another question.

Is Mexico using the fence as a distraction from the femecide in Ciudad Juarez, human rights violations and other social problems that the Mexican government has failed to address?

Mexico is a gateway country to the US for unregulated migration from many other Latin American countries, Asia, India and Africa. How will Mexico address the increase in unregulated migration? This also raises other questions.

Is the US secretly meeting with a Mexican political party to develop strategies that will undermine the efforts to reform Mexico? A reform promised by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) a leftist and the leading contender for the presidency in Mexico’s next election.

How many economic stressors will building this fence along the Mexican/US border place on Mexico who will have to take up the majority of the world’s unregulated migration? Is this strategy intended to create an economic crisis in Mexico that will have Mexico begging the US for economic relief?

There are things at play here that go far beyond unregulated migration. My instincts tell me that the US will attempt to crush the current rise of leftist counties in Latin America by first undermining Mexico’s ability to become self sufficient and then attempt to oust AMLO from power in Mexico.

The US will also implement strategies that will tax the economies of Leftist Latin American countries. Military action is not an option that the US will leave out. In fact, Bolivia is the most vulnerable to suffer a loss from a US backed insurgency or drug war that will target Evo Morales and oust him from power.

Our united resistance against domestic terrorist has shown that we have bridged ethnic barriers to join in the battle against the oppression of racism. I call on you now to unite against any and all US intervention that will suppress the direction Latin America wishes to pursue to end the severe poverty and oppression they have endured for hundreds of years.

The success or failure of Latin America affects all the people of the Americas.