University Professor Pushes for Mexican Homeland in US
April 18, 2006 06:45 AM EST
By Sher Zieve
University of New Mexico Chicano Studies Professor Charles Truxillo is pushing for a new Mexican homeland in the United States. Truxillo says this should be accomplished by any means necessary.
Truxillo, who advocates an Hispanic separatist movement, said that this new Mexican state should include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, as well as Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. He also suggests the name for the new fatherland be Republica del Norte.
The Associated Press reports that UNM Professor and Director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute Felipe Gonzáles said that there is a certain homeland undercurrent amongst Hispanics who continue to believe that their lands were stolen by the US. Truxillo continued by saying "We [Hispanics] remain subordinated" and "the long history of oppression and subordination has to end."
Although Truxillo acknowledges that the numbers of Mexicans and other Hispanic groups are not currently large enough to effectively accomplish this separatist movement, as more illegal immigrants flood the US their populations are growing dramatically.
April 18, 2006 06:45 AM EST
By Sher Zieve
University of New Mexico Chicano Studies Professor Charles Truxillo is pushing for a new Mexican homeland in the United States. Truxillo says this should be accomplished by any means necessary.
Truxillo, who advocates an Hispanic separatist movement, said that this new Mexican state should include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, as well as Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. He also suggests the name for the new fatherland be Republica del Norte.
The Associated Press reports that UNM Professor and Director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute Felipe Gonzáles said that there is a certain homeland undercurrent amongst Hispanics who continue to believe that their lands were stolen by the US. Truxillo continued by saying "We [Hispanics] remain subordinated" and "the long history of oppression and subordination has to end."
Although Truxillo acknowledges that the numbers of Mexicans and other Hispanic groups are not currently large enough to effectively accomplish this separatist movement, as more illegal immigrants flood the US their populations are growing dramatically.
