[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18620-18621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THE COLONIZATION OF AMERICA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, I asked a question tonight, whether or not the 
United States of America is becoming a colony. A colony is made up of 
people from one country owing allegiance to their home country, not the 
country that they're in. And a colony serves the purpose of supporting 
the home country and exploits the new land. And has this happened to 
the United States? Have people illegally entered the United States with 
the purpose of colonizing this country for the benefit of another 
nation?
  I think the question is a valid question when it comes to Mexico. We 
know that the previous President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, actually 
encouraged illegal entry of his citizens into the United States. His 
government provided maps and documents so that people could enter 
illegally into this land.
  At the border of Texas and Mexico on the Mexican side, you can find 
numerous markets where an individual can buy documents of 
identification that are sold so that people can use them when they come 
into the United States to pretend to be here legally.
  And when we talk about the issue of immigration and what to do with 
the people here in this country that are illegally here, we must ask 
the question, why did they choose to be here illegally as opposed to 
coming the legal way? The reason may be that many of the illegals don't 
want to become Americans. Of course this country has a great number of 
individuals who are legally here that want to be loyal to this country 
and do the proper thing according to this Nation, but there are

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many that are here illegally and they're here illegally on purpose. 
They pledge allegiance to another flag, many to the Mexican flag, not 
to the American flag. And that is the current problem with many 
illegals in this Nation; they want to be colonists, not citizens.
  Part of being an American means that individuals pledge loyalty, 
wherever they come from, to this Nation, not some other nation. Many of 
them living in America want to accept the benefits of being in this 
country, but they don't want to accept the conditions of being an 
American. They want to remain colonists, not Americans. They refuse to 
learn the language, they refuse to assimilate, and most importantly, 
they refuse to be loyal to this Nation.
  And the effects of the colonization of our land means that the money 
that these illegals make does not stay in this Nation. Like colonies in 
the past, the money is returned to their home country. Many statistics 
report that over $22 billion a year is sent back to Mexico in the form 
of money sent from this Nation, from Mexican citizens in this Nation 
returning their money to their home country. They are feeding the 
Mexican economy at the expense of the American economy.
  Since many of them deal in a cash economy, they don't pay taxes the 
way legals do and American citizens. In fact, there is an organized 
system in this Nation where money is shipped back to Mexico through a 
complicit alliance of the banking industry in this country. And many of 
them do not contribute to the social programs provided for Americans 
and legal immigrants. They don't pay into the health care system, the 
education, and many of them don't pay into Social Security, but they 
receive those benefits at a drain to the American economy. It sounds 
like colonization of this Nation; they reap the benefits without the 
responsibility of being American. And the American taxpayer is stuck 
with the bill.
  We have heard that illegals do contribute to the economy, that they 
pay their taxes, and we've heard the other extreme that they don't pay 
anything. If we're to believe the Heritage Foundation, they say that 
for every dollar that an illegal pays into the American tax system, 
they get in return from benefits $3. So yet that extra $2 the American 
taxpayer is caught with.
  And of course this has happened before in history. If we use the 
example of the African continent, the African nations were raided by 
the Europeans in the last several centuries. They became colonies of 
Europe. Those colonies ended up, the minerals, the diamonds, the ivory 
and the gold were all taken from those nations and returned to the 
mother countries; sent it back to Europe so their country, the mother 
country, could benefit and the colonies were bankrupt. The results are 
known; they left many of those African nations in ruins, and many of 
these nations are still struggling to recover because of the 
colonization of their nation.
  So, the United States, Mr. Speaker, should not be a colony of Mexico. 
Imperialism of Mexico is not welcomed in this Nation. And this country 
needs to get back to some basics of securing both of our borders, the 
northern and southern border. We should not grant amnesty to people who 
don't want to be Americans, and I'm referring to those illegals that 
are in the United States. We should strengthen requirements to enter 
this country. And we should end the good deal for illegals and the bad 
deal for American citizens and American legal immigrants. I suggest 
that the colonization by third world countries of the United States 
must end.
  And that's just the way it is.

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