Musing Minds Backup

Michelle was on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss Reconquista.Political Pit Bull has video here.

Hot Air has the video too.

Steve Doocy: Some Mexicans say they deserve an open border because they claim the United States took their land and the Mexicans want it back. This movement is called, and I’m not making it up, it’s called the Reconquista.

Brian Kilmeade: And you know it, to someone who knows you’re not making it up is Michelle Malkin. She talks about this crusade and she is a Fox News contributor with a heck of a blog and a heck of a website [Michelle Malkin and Hot Air - Ed.]

Michelle, first off, tell me about this movement. And it isn’t just a niche, is it just a niche group with a bunch of people who don’t want to let go of something?

Michelle Malkin: Well, a lot of people have been under the impression that this Reconquista movement is a fringe, intellectual, fantasy. But they’ve been around a long time, for decades actually, and in a lot of community colleges and universities there are professors who have been plying this idea that the Southwest was “stolen” from Mexico and that Mexicans ought to rightly, rightfully reclaim it for a long time. There are a lot of chapters of a student group called MEChA who believe this and I debated one of these young students just the other day and its as fresh as it was in the 1960’s and the indignent and the extreme nature of it has not died down. We saw that on Monday at the May Day rally even though the mainstream media didn’t want to show it.

Steve Doocy: Even though the mainstream media today is admitting ‘yeah, Monday probably fizzled in many respects.’ Go back an talk a little bit about this outfit called MEChA which is predominately students but this is a racist outfit.

Michelle Malkin: Oh plainly Steve. They are ethnic separatists and in some cases some of the more radical groups have websites that advocate genocide of Europeans and anyone who’s non-Mexican, who’s in what they consider “their” land, the “stolen” lands of Texas, Arizona, and California, all the way up to Washington in some cases. They disseminate maps that show the territory that they claim was stolen. On Monday there were many signs and banners plying this idea and this kind of propoganda.

E.D. Hill: Michelle, well the first part of this I don’t get is when you talk about Texas, who do they want to give it back to? The Spanish? The French? The Confederacy? The State of Texas? Or Mexico? When you start with that, who really has claim to it? But second, if they want to “reclaim” this land, why are they here in America where they want our benefits and our jobs, yet they want to take the land and put it back in Mexico and then what? Sneak into Idaho?

Michelle Malkin: {laughs} The whole thing is absurd E.D. and you point out a lot of the historical ridiculousness of it because as a lot of these people who adhere to this idea of Aztlan, which is what they consider their territory, skip over the fact that…

E.D. Hill: It wasn’t theirs…

Michelle Malkin: …they did sign a treaty, called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Mexico received millions of dollars in settlement money for this. So the history is ridiculous, but also the ramifications of it I think are really serious. They consider this not a country. They do not respect our sovereignty and the ultimate agenda of a lot of these pro-illegal alien advocates who are now pushing for amnesty is to obliterate our borders. And in many cases, if you think about it, they have succeeded by sheer demographic and political force they have erased the borders between the U.S. and Mexico. They’ve accomplished their goal.

Brian Kilmeade: Michelle, but here’s the thing. Some people listening to this say, ‘I’ve never met anybody that thinks that Texas belongs to Mexico or that the 1846 agreement didn’t happen, so, what do you say to those people? Even though you’ve debated one student, what makes us think that it’s more than just a thousand people in this country who feel that way?

Michelle Malkin:: I would say ‘Open your eyes and open your ears.’ When you have mainstream reporters, in one case a Fox reporter in Los Angeles…

E.D. Hill: I saw that.

Michelle Malkin: …plying this kind of stuff. When you’ve got professors and students and signs being held up all over this country it’s not just a fringe movement in Los Angeles for example. You’ve got people in Albuquerque and people in Milwaukee saying this is stolen land, that America is a continent, not a country. I think that you can’t dismiss this and you’ve got to understand the intellectual underpinnings of this push for amnesty to know what it’s about.

E.D. Hill: “We didn’t cross the borders, the border crossed us’

Michelle Malkin: You heard that everywhere.

E.D. Hill: Yeah, I know.

Steve Doocy: It was inevitable. Now those poor aliens are victims. All right. Michelle Malkin, Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist and an all around smart gal.

E.D. Hill: Michelle, what’s your website again? Some folks don’t get your syndicated column.

Michelle Malkin: Hey thanks, I’ve got two. It’s MichelleMalkin.com and HotAir.com and we’ve got tons of pictures…

Steve Doocy: Hey, wait a minute… we wanted HotAir.com…

E.D. Hill: HotAir.com is your new website and very good.

Michelle Malkin: Thank you.

Steve Doocy: Take it easy.

E.D. Hill: We should have gotten HotAir.com…