Marginally increased border enforcement has given rise to a new sub-category of the sob story genre — Mexican citizens returned to their own country and required to live there. Elvira Arellano (a convicted felon) is the queen of this category, since she was repatriated to Mexico last year and the squawking hasn’t stopped since.

Carlos Martinez was in a state of total panic after being deported from the United States to the Mexican border city of Matamoros — he had no money, nowhere to go, and, worst of all, he didn’t speak Spanish. The 30-year-old New Yorker had left Mexico as a baby; when the Department of Homeland Security sent him south last May after he had served a prison term, he landed in a foreign land.

“I was crying when I went over the border. It was just a big joke to the U.S. immigration officials to have this Mexican who doesn’t speak Spanish. But I was terrified,” Martinez said.
[Mexico Tries to Help Deportees, Time Magazine, Feb 7, 2008]

Funny how Raza types demand that we American citizens speak Spanish; but Mexicans, not as much.

This from a humor site:

IMAO: Securing a Border
I like this idea: President Bush is going to fund a border fence for Mexico’s southern border. We should call this the “Keep American Illegals Mexican” bill. We only want hard-working, honest Mexican illegal immigrants, not any of those shifty, Hugo Chavez-voting Venezuelans.

But the fact is that the $1.4 Billion dollar Merida Initiative is going to send American tax dollars to Mexico to help defend what they call La Frontera Sur.

The Merida Initiative, a huge giveaway, provides, among other things

Helicopters and surveillance aircraft to support interdiction activities and rapid operational response of law enforcement agencies in Mexico.

They aren’t going to be interdicting American tourists, but all the people coming from the south. In 2001, in an Allan Wall column that mentioned President Fox’s Plan Frontera Sur, we included this note:

[VDARE.COM note: Click here for a Spanish language story on the Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico's Southern Border Plan. Perhaps President Fox would provide his friend Jorge Bush with a copy, since a Plan Frontera Sur is what our Presidente chiefly lacks]

So seven years later he finally has a plan–but we were hoping he’d guard American’s southern border.

And, no, they they don’t get their continent back, either.

But, that’s not the point. The point is that all the white folks in Australian politics feel really good about themselves today. The Washington Post reports:

In a historic vote that supporters said would open a new chapter in Australian race relations, lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously adopted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s motion to apologize to Aborigines on behalf of all citizens. …

The apology is directed at tens of thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly taken from their families as children under assimilation policies that were not abandoned until the middle of the last century. …

The apology ends years of divisive debate and a decade of refusals by the conservative government that lost November’s elections.

Rudd received a standing ovation from lawmakers and from scores of Aborigines and dignitaries invited to witness the event. Many wiped away tears.

Rudd ruled out compensation, however …

This popular “Stolen Generations” topic was the subject of Philip Noyce’s acclaimed 2002 movie “Rabbit-Proof Fence” about three half-white girls in the 1930s who are forcibly taken from their loving, caring Aboriginal communities by a racist Australian official (played by Kenneth Branagh) and put into boarding schools, from which they run away to go back home by following Australia’s long rabbit-proof fence that divides agricultural land from waste land..

What possible reason besides genocidal racism might Australian authorities have had for taking children away from the custody of their Aboriginal mothers?

Obviously, none whatsoever. Don’t even think about anything you’ve ever learned about the home life of Aborigines. Force yourself not to think the word Alchoholism. Don’t think about why Britney Spears lost custody of her children, either. That had to be pure racism, too.

If any explanation other than racial genocide even flits across your mind, then you’re a genocidal racist.

The bizarrely ironic thing is that the star of “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” an illiterate 11-14 year old half-Aborigine girl named Everlyn Sampi, hated working on Noyce’s grueling movie and kept running away. She’d be found and returned to Noyce.

When it was over, Noyce, who had grown fond of his unruly star, became alarmed at the fate awaiting her if she returned to her alcoholism and sexual abuse-stricken community. So, like the evil Branagh character in his movie, he enrolled her in … a boarding school. Noyce mused, “I found myself thinking, ‘I have to look after her. She can live with us. I’ll send her to school.”

But, she didn’t like Noyce’s boarding school and, just like the character she played in the movie, left for home.

Australian columnist Andrew Bolt has the instructive story of Noyce and his star here, and historian Keith Windschuttle puts it in larger perspective in the New Criterion here.