Texas Senator John Cornyn is quick to being anti-Mexican when he could not support the Gang of Eight bipartisan Legal Immigration Reform bill that was supported by our Arizona Senators like Sen. John McCain. In fact, Cornyn is all about the State of Texas getting millions and millions of dollars from Texas Port of Entries and trade between the U.S. and Mexico (so long as too many brown people don’t come in unless it is to work in the shadows of society and in Texas agricultural fields, right)?
Indeed Cornyn could have supported legal immigration reform that could have kept Tejano families together, but he chose to politically rule with the iron fist.
Though Cornyn’s views seem largely anti-Mexican and not really in support of the Guadalupe Treaty ideals, he sure is quick to to want to enforce the Mexico Treaty, isn’t he?
Juan Montoya lays our Cornyn’s hypocrisy below.
The treaty that was approved by both nations in 1944 called for specific amounts of water in the Rio Grande watershed to be shared by both nations. This was the time before the river was damned up on both sides, before agribusiness on the U.S. side required huge amounts of water, before there was little – if any – large agricultural projects on the Mexican side. In fact, the irrigation needs on the Mexican side were largely nonexistent and even today a minuscule of Mexican agriculture is irrigated. As irrigation projects grew on that side to make agriculture more abundant and feed their people, their needs inreased. Think about it. It will be 70 years since the treaty was signed. A lot of things have changed since then.
Instead of making out like Ugly Americans of the past, Messrs. Cornyn and Vela should think perhaps of sitting down with their neighbors to the south and rewriting the treaty to reflect current reality. Instead of saber rattling, threatening cutoffs to the U.S. commission if they don’t get appropriately nasty with their Mexican counterparts, and otherwise being obdurate and vindictive, it’s time we acted like the mature super power that we are and renegotiate an equitable sharing of the precious water commodity that unites us and divides us at the same time.After all, Cornyn has a track record of vindictiveness. He has voted consistently for measures that fly in the face of compromise and reason such as the prohibition of assault weapons, equal pay for women, the violence against women act, against comprehensive immigration reform, the Dream Act, etc.Vela is new to the congress and has little to show. We’ll be watching his performance to see if he voices his opposition to the continuation of crop subsidies and welfare for the rich agribusiness on the committee studying the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Farm Commodities Program. FULL STORY>>>
