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06/23/00
US to redraw Mexican border to 1848
position
Mexican candidates woo mojado vote
"Do you know the way to San Jose?" asks
a confused Mexican voter in Oakland.
by Victor Payan
Pocho Exito Pollster
In an effort to gain more votes for this Sunday's Mexican Presidential election,
the PRI has negotiated a deal with the US State Department to temporarily
redraw the border between the United States and Mexico to its original 1848
demarcation. This will allow the 1.5 million registered Mexican voters living
in the US a chance to take part in the hotly contested election.
"At first they were skeptical of the idea, but the US government agreed
that a PRI victory would be beneficial for both countries," said Ben
Dejo, a spokesman for Mexico's ruling party. "They made us sign a PRI-nuptual
agreement ensuring that we would return the southwest promptly after the
elections, however."
This move comes at the end of a fierce campaign season in which all three
Mexican Presidential candidates heavily courted the north of the border
Mexican voter. Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago, San Diego and Fresno have
all been visited by the three candidates, whom Mexicans have nicknamed as:
the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
"If the mojados won't come to Cuauhtemoc, Cuauhtemoc must come to the
mojados," PRD candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas told an exuberant crowd
of busboys, waitresses and other exploited Mexican workers at a rally held
at Los Angeles' historic Olvera St., the so-called So Cal. Zocalo.
Vicente Fox, whose whirlwind thirty-city "From Michigan to Michoacan"
tour took him deep into the American heartland, said he is confident that
the temporary re-demarcation of the U.S.-Mexican border will be seen as
a step toward reconciling the feelings of illegal alienation that many Mexican
ex-patriates feel toward their country.
"Pollos, pochos and resident aliens, lend me your ears, caray,"
Fox told a capacity rodeo crowd at the Alamodome. "It is time to end
the PRI rule and elect a President whose name is synonymous with the new
Mexico: Vicente Fox!"
The PRI strongly believes that the border redraw will benefit them most
favorably of all the three parties.
"If you think about it, many Mexicans have benefitted from the mass
migrations to the US during the past seven decades of PRI rule in Mexico,"
said PRI candidate Francisco Labastida. "Every Mexicano waiter, every
field worker, every seamstress in the entire United States left Mexico because
of the PRI. So you might say they owe us a favor."
The ruling party is confident that the illegal immigrant vote will swing
the election. "The mojados are our soccer moms," said Labastida.
At a press conference, a US Border Patrol spokesperson read a statement
allaying fears that the re- demarcation might signify an admission that
America was losing the war against immigration from Mexico.
"We're confident that the PRI will promptly return what we're calling
the DMZ, or Deep- Mexicanized Zone the first thing Monday morning,"
said the statement, "although we might let them keep Fresno."
Chicano activists have vowed to celebrate the occasion by holding 4th of
July barbecues and chili cook-offs throughout the country.
©2000 Victor Payan |
