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AUHTM Coalition
Coordinator: Stuart H. Hurlbert
Email: shh@capsweb.org
Coalition Members
Antelope Valley Independent Minutemen
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
Campo Minutemen
Chicago Minuteman Project
Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform
Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control
Floridians for a Sustainable Population
Midwest Minutemen
Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform
Minutemen American Defense
Mountain Minutemen
New Jersey Citizens for Immigration Control
New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement
Oregonians for Immigration Reform
San Diego Citizens Brigade
San Diego Minutemen
Save Our State
Stop SPP
Tennessee MinuteWomen
United Patriots of America
Utah Minuteman Project
Vista Citizens Brigade
Washingtonians for Immigration Reform
 



 

 

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Hostility from the south

 

Our Agenda

 
AUHTM is a coalition of peaceful, law-abiding organizations working toward the halting of illegal immigration, attrition of the illegal alien population by enforcement, and reduction of the U.S. population growth rate. Each  member organization is focused on immigration reform, but each has its own particular philosphy and action program. All agree on one central fact - that Mexico has become an enemy and is waging an undeclared war against the U.S., all the sweet smiles, saccharine words, binational love-fests, hypocritical backslapping and Crawford barbecues notwithstanding.

 
The AUHTM Coalition says, "Enough!"  We ask ALL our fellow Americans to say the same. Mexico can end its aggression, or every year many fewer Americans will visit Mexico as tourists. Mexico has grounds for doubting the intelligence of U.S. Presidents, presidential candidates, and members of the U.S. Congress, but it had best not underestimate the intelligence of the American people.

 
Some have asked us, "But if the boycott is successful, might it not so damage the Mexican economy as to drive even more Mexicans to enter the U.S. illegally?" We have three responses.

 
First, if the boycott did not have that potential for economic damage, it would have no value, force or purpose. We are glad the potential is recognized by intelligent people. This boycott will have more than symbolic import.

 
Second, as recent increased actions against illegal aliens by local, state and federal agencies and institutions have demonstrated, modest increases in enforcement of existing immigration laws can both deter illegal immigration as well as stimulate self-deportation on the part of illegal aliens now here. And we will not yield to threats by the invader.

 
Third, it is Mexico's choice as to whether it wants to risk damage to its economy. One word from Mexico City, and the Mexican embassy and Mexican consulates across the U.S. can halt tomorrow their political interference. And they can start advising every Mexican illegal alien they encounter to leave the U.S. as soon as possible instead of giving them a matricula consular and advice on how to evade U.S. laws. That they will not do so in the absence of economic pressure is a concrete measure of Mexico's hostile intent toward the U.S.

 
By no means does AUHTM's focus on Mexico mean that we regard Mexico as the main problem. This boycott is simply one of the few "levers" available to American citizens, a lever that can be used whether our overlords like it or not. The U.S. Congress and the White House are the main culprits in the immigration mess. The have long displayed on immigration issues a mixture of cowardice, avarice, and sanctimonious myopia that boils down to a single word: treason.

 
Not surprisingly we are now stuck with three presidential candidates each of whom favors both massive increases in legal immigration and amnesty (aka a pathway to immediate de facto permanent residency in the U.S.) for most illegal aliens here now. Mexico is cheering. It already has its 'hooks' into each of these candidates. If you want to fight back, help AUHTM spread the "Boycott Mexico !" campaign across the U.S.

 

No Bashing

 [The following statement represents AUHTM’s adaptation of statements by Roy Beck of NumbersUSA and by Joyce Tarnow of Floridians for a Sustainable Population on their respective websites. AUHTM subscribes to the principles below wholeheartedly.]

 AUHTM is advocating for a significant reduction in mass immigration to the U.S. and for strong action against the one government, Mexico's, most hostile to that reduction. As with most immigration reform groups, however, AUHTM's main concern is about the numbers of people coming into the U.S. and how they come in, not about who or where they come from. AUHTM does not advocate hostile actions or feelings toward immigrant Americans from any country. Even illegal aliens deserve humane treatment as they are detected, detained and deported.

 Unfortunately, to fight overimmigration is to risk seeming to attack immigrants themselves. Even worse is the risk of inadvertently encouraging somebody else to show hostility toward the foreign-born as a group.

 All of us know personally many wonderful immigrants of various nationalities.So we should have a very personal stake in not wanting to provoke hostility or discrimination toward the foreign-born who already are living among us.

 But our kindly feelings toward immigrants must no longer stifle public discussion about the effects of immigration numbers.

 To talk about changing immigration numbers is to say nothing against the individual immigrants in this country. Rather, it is about deciding how many foreign citizens living in their own countries right now should be allowed to immigrate in the future, and how many, if any, illegal aliens now here should be allowed to stay.

 None of this is to suggest that no immigrants are scoundrels or contribute to problems of immigration because of their bad personal behavior. It is not unfair, nor does it constitute immigrant bashing, to criticize the behavior of specific immigrants who violate our laws or otherwise behave in a manner unworthy of guests who have been invited into this country. Nor is it unfair to single out the Mexican government for its uniquely hostile and aggressive attitude towards the U.S., its borders, laws and sovereignty.

 It IS immigrant bashing, however, to ascribe negative characteristics to whole groups of people based on their ethnicity or foreign-born status. All of us should be careful of the language we use so as not to inadvertently appear to be making such negative generalizations.

 Not only is it ethically wrong to engage in such stereotyping, it is tactically short-sighted. Many, if not most, immigrants already among us would support reductions in immigration numbers. The reasons are not surprising. Virtually any reduction designed to help native-born Americans would be even more beneficial to foreign-born Americans. That is why so many immigrants are supporters of reduced immigration.  (See polls at: http://www.flsuspop.org/pages/polls.htm).

 Perhaps the greatest "immigrant bashers" are those members of Congress who refuse to look at the abysmal conditions of so many immigrant Americans and who every year insist on adding more than a million more immigrants into their occupations, schools and communities.

 Groups, books, individuals and websites known for their opposition to current immigration numbers naturally are defined most easily by what they are AGAINST.

But AUHTM, like most other immigration reform groups, is motivated not by our opposition to immigration but by our passion for some very dear values:

We are FOR fulfillment of the environmental goals set forth in a national consensus in the early 1970s. As a nation, we agreed to stop squandering our natural resources and to restore and preserve the quality of our water, air, ecosystems and biodiversity for future generations. Until we can meet those goals with the present size of U.S. population, we believe it irresponsible for the federal government to force massive new population growth.

We are FOR a decent standard of living for all full-time workers no matter how low-skilled. If some of us feel we require the services of that job, then we have no humane right to expect those services at a cost that requires the worker to live without dignity. With tens of millions of Americans unable to support a family at even lower-middle-class standards, we feel the federal government should NOT be importing foreign workers to compete with those most vulnerable of our fellow citizens and recent immigrants.

We are FOR a continuation of the American style of generous individual liberties. We are FOR the philosophy of instituting as little regimentation and regulation in our lives as is necessary for the common good. We believe that an integral aspect of the American style of freedom is tied to the tradition of open spaces in this country and the freedom of movement. We believe the federal government irresponsibly threatens those freedoms by a program that would force more than 100 million additional people into our already-overcrowded highways, schools, parks, hunting and fishing areas, beaches, lakes and streams. We believe along with most Americans that endless urban sprawl continually deteriorates the quality of liberty in this country and that the federal government should not be in the business of forcing that sprawl.

Quotable Notables on the Need for Lower Immigration Numbers

http://www.numbersusa.com/about/goals.html

http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/env_endorsements.html