Channeling Pat Buchanan, WorldNetDaily asks, “Is Mexico reconquering the U.S. southwest?” The answer: why, as a matter of fact, yes , yes it is — though it appears thus far to be a velvet revolution:

A radical Hispanic movement’s dream to retake the southwestern United States is becoming a reality with the aid of Mexican and U.S. policies, according to some immigration watchers.A massive influx of illegal immigrants is ‘importing poverty’ and growing an ethnic community with greater loyalty to Mexico than the U.S., maintains Glenn Spencer, president of Voices of Citizens Together, a California-based non-profit group.

‘Unless this is shut down within two years, I believe that it will be irreversible, and that it will most certainly lead to a breakup of the United States,’ Spencer told WorldNetDaily. ‘I don’t think there is any doubt about it.’

A breakaway of U.S. states is a distinct possibility, according to prominent Chicano activist and University of California at Riverside professor Armando Navarro. In an interview with WorldNetDaily, Navarro would not answer directly whether he shared separatist aspirations, but said that if demographic and social trends continue, secession is inevitable.

Separatist groups are couching claims to U.S. territories in the rhetoric of Palestinian statist groups; the website of a group calling itself La Voz de Aztlan, the Voice of Aztlan, “identifies Mexicans in the U.S. as ‘America’s Palestinians.’ Many Mexicans see themselves as part of a transnational ethnic group known as ‘La Raza,’ the race,” WorldNetDaily reports.

In a related story, the French are demanding a “right of return” to Louisianna, and the IRA has set is sights on “a Boston homeland.”

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