Before favoring “rights” or benefits for illegal aliens, Americans should wonder why Mexico is actively pushing for the acceptance of Mexican ID cards in many states, amnesty and benefits for millions of illegal Mexican immigrants and more guest worker programs.

In June 2002, a Zogby poll showed 58 percent of Mexicans believe the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to them and 57 percent of Mexicans do not believe that they need U.S. permission to enter this country.

In 1995, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros said before a Hispanic audience: “As goes the Latino population will go the state of California, and as goes the state of California will go the United States of America. My friends, the stakes are big. This is a fight worth making.”

In the last decade, the Mexican population exploded all over the United States. Although many Mexican migrants have no political agenda, is Mexico using immigration to control American policies and, eventually, control the entire United States?

Yeh Ling-Ling

Oakland, Calif.