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| MEXIFORNIA A State of Becoming |
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Synopsis:
"Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California," Victor
Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old
melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is
changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been
inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our
borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population
into our mainstream."
Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia
is an intensely personal work by one of our most important
writers. Hanson is perhaps known best for his military histories
and especially his social commentary about America and its
response to terror after 9/11. But he is also a fifth-generation
Californian who runs a family farm in the Central Valley and has
written eloquent elegies for the decline of the small farm such as
Fields Without Dreams and The Land Was Everything.
Like these books, Mexifornia is an intensely personal look at
what has changed in California over the last quarter century. In
this case, however, Hanson's focus is on how not only California,
the Southwest, and indeed the entire nation has been affected by
America's hemorrhaging borders and how those hurt worst are
the Mexican immigrants themselves. A large part of the problem,
Hanson believes, comes from the opportunistic coalition that
stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles an honest
discussion of a growing problem.
"Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California," Victor
Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old
melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is
changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been
inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our
borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population
into our mainstream."
Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia
is an intensely personal work by one of our most important
writers. Hanson is perhaps known best for his military histories
and especially his social commentary about America and its
response to terror after 9/11. But he is also a fifth-generation
Californian who runs a family farm in the Central Valley and has
written eloquent elegies for the decline of the small farm such as
Fields Without Dreams and The Land Was Everything.
Like these books, Mexifornia is an intensely personal look at
what has changed in California over the last quarter century. In
this case, however, Hanson's focus is on how not only California,
the Southwest, and indeed the entire nation has been affected by
America's hemorrhaging borders and how those hurt worst are
the Mexican immigrants themselves. A large part of the problem,
Hanson believes, comes from the opportunistic coalition that
stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles an honest
discussion of a growing problem.
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Illegal Immigration into California and other borders states from
Mexico according to ethnic lobbyists and ideologues is good. Illegal
Immigrant's 'do jobs Americans won't do'. But at what cost to
California? Which houses three of largest sanctuary cities in the nation -
San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. California operates in
massive deficits as its social services are stretched, prisons are bulging
with criminal illegals and once top ranked 1-12k public school system
now operates in the bottom of nation. The author looks at both sides of
this divisive issue and offers a optimistic hope for his home state.
*****__Anonymous
Hanson is a 4th generation Californian who grew up under the old
assimilationist model of the 50's and 60's when English was the official
language. Any cockiness from a Latino migrant would have been
answered this way: "If it really is so good over there, why don't you go
back?" That doesn't happen anymore.
He describes the irony of Latino migration northward to freedom, only
to assume here the same tribalist, statist values they fled. These values
are enforced by the Movement and assisted by American benevolence
and self-loathing. "Malinchismo," the supposed American betrayal of
the Mexican people, is readily believable to an American public
indoctrinated with guilt in their own public schools. ****__Apples of
Gold
Hanson's primary worry is steadily rising illegal immigration into a
welfare state with expanding entitlement's and waning commitment to
the history and virtues of Western civilization, an admittedly imperfect,
coercive consensus that nonetheless held together a uniquely
successful, multi ethnic nation. The emerging Mexifornia is becoming
"not quite Mexico and not quite America either." ****__Frederick R.
Lynch
Mexico according to ethnic lobbyists and ideologues is good. Illegal
Immigrant's 'do jobs Americans won't do'. But at what cost to
California? Which houses three of largest sanctuary cities in the nation -
San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. California operates in
massive deficits as its social services are stretched, prisons are bulging
with criminal illegals and once top ranked 1-12k public school system
now operates in the bottom of nation. The author looks at both sides of
this divisive issue and offers a optimistic hope for his home state.
*****__Anonymous
Hanson is a 4th generation Californian who grew up under the old
assimilationist model of the 50's and 60's when English was the official
language. Any cockiness from a Latino migrant would have been
answered this way: "If it really is so good over there, why don't you go
back?" That doesn't happen anymore.
He describes the irony of Latino migration northward to freedom, only
to assume here the same tribalist, statist values they fled. These values
are enforced by the Movement and assisted by American benevolence
and self-loathing. "Malinchismo," the supposed American betrayal of
the Mexican people, is readily believable to an American public
indoctrinated with guilt in their own public schools. ****__Apples of
Gold
Hanson's primary worry is steadily rising illegal immigration into a
welfare state with expanding entitlement's and waning commitment to
the history and virtues of Western civilization, an admittedly imperfect,
coercive consensus that nonetheless held together a uniquely
successful, multi ethnic nation. The emerging Mexifornia is becoming
"not quite Mexico and not quite America either." ****__Frederick R.
Lynch
Victor Davis Hanson is Professor of
Greek and Director of the Classics
Program at California State
University, Fresno. He is the author or
editor of many books, including Who
Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical
Education and the Recovery of Greek
Wisdom (with John Heath, Free Press,
1998), and The Soul of Battle (Free
Press, 1999).
In 1992 he was named the most
outstanding undergraduate teacher of
classics in the nation.
Greek and Director of the Classics
Program at California State
University, Fresno. He is the author or
editor of many books, including Who
Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical
Education and the Recovery of Greek
Wisdom (with John Heath, Free Press,
1998), and The Soul of Battle (Free
Press, 1999).
In 1992 he was named the most
outstanding undergraduate teacher of
classics in the nation.
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