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Did you know, readers, that the United States is at war with Mexico?

If not, it’s because you don’t read your FrontPage Mag, and that means you’re missing out.

According to Lawrence Auster, Mexico is in the process of invading the United States, and has in fact been doing so for decades.

The Mexican invasion of the United States began decades ago as a spontaneous migration of ordinary Mexicans into the U.S. seeking economic opportunities. It has morphed into a campaign to occupy and gain power over our country–a project encouraged, abetted, and organized by the Mexican state and supported by the leading elements of Mexican society.

It is, in other words, war. War does not have to consist of armed conflict. War can consist of any hostile course of action undertaken by one country to weaken, harm, and dominate another country. Mexico is waging war on the U.S. through mass immigration illegal and legal, through the assertion of Mexican national claims over the U.S., and through the subversion of its laws and sovereignty, all having the common end of bringing the southwestern part of the U.S. under the control of the expanding Mexican nation, and of increasing Mexico’s political and cultural influence over the U.S. as a whole.

That’s right, readers: war.

Our beloved English language will soon disappear:

At the same conference, the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes said: “In the face of the silent reconquista of the United States [[Auster's] emphasis added], we confront a new linguistic phenomenon,” by which he meant that Spanish was conquering English just as it conquered the Aztec language centuries ago. According to El Siglo, Fuentes received “an intense ovation.”

If you’ve read your Flannery O’Connor, you will immediately think of her masterful story “The Displaced Person”:

She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other. She saw the Polish words, dirty and all-knowing and unreformed, flinging mud on the clean English words until everything was equally dirty. She saw them all piled up in a room, all the dead dirty words, theirs and hers too, piled up like the naked bodies in the newsreel. God save me! she cried silently, from the stinking power of Satan!

According to Auster, it is “the desire of the Mexican people as a whole… to expand the Mexican culture and the Spanish language into North [sic] America,” and also to regain the Southwestern American states; an additional goal is what he calls “economic parasitism” (i.e. Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, sending money back home to Mexico).

The last of these goals is hard to argue with. It does not deserve to be called “parasitism” (after all, the people he’s talking about are working to earn the money they send home), but it’s a no-brainer to point out that Mexico would be in big trouble if that money stopped coming in. This isn’t what Auster sees as the big problem, though.

What this article is about is some good old-fashioned fear-mongering: those Mexicans just want to keep on coming up here until we’re all Mexicans, speakin’ Spanish and eatin’ enchiladas. This is what’s called xenophobia.

(His statements, by the way, are backed up with links to NewsMax, VDare, and Free Republic, among other reliable and unbiased news sources.)

He even goes as far as to suggest that Mexican immigration is a modern-day version of Hitler’s Anschluss.

Hitler pursued Anschluss, the joining together of the Germans in Austria with the Germans in Germany leading to the official annexation of Austria to Germany. The softer Mexican equivalent of this concept is acercamiento. The word means closer or warmer relations, yet it is also used in the sense of getting Mexican-Americans to act as a unified bloc to advance Mexico’s political interests inside the U.S., particularly in increasing immigration and weakening U.S. immigration law. Thus the Mexican government is using the Mexican U.S. population, including its radical elements, as a fifth column.

Disturbingly, his only recommendation is that we Americans “must revive our own largely forgotten and forbidden sense that we ourselves are a nation, not just a bunch of consumers and bearers of individual rights, and have the right to defend our nation as a nation.” To me, this sentence gives off such a distinct reek of Rassenstolz that I wonder if my neighbors can smell it. Anschluss indeed.