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A.P. quotes a Mexican citizen as an example of feelings in Mexico regarding the proposal to use a fence to reduce illegal immigration:
"We learned to believe in the United States. We have a binational life," he said of Zacatecas, a state that has been sending migrants north for more than a century. "It isn't just a feeling of rejection. It's against what we see as part of our life, our culture, our territory."
"Our territory?" Mexican citizens consider the U.S. to be their "territory?" Nothing could say more distinctly that illegal immigration is in part an attempt to replace American culture with that of Mexico.
This notion of being binational leads to divided loyalties. The U.S. has always welcomed immigrants. But the immigrants have to come here legally, and they have to become U.S. citizens, with no divided loyalties, and without a belief that the U.S. is a territory belonging to their nation of origin.
