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May 29, 2007

Doing the Booing Americans Won't Do
By Michelle Malkin

The United States government is on the verge of approving a mass
amnesty to millions of illegal aliens-a plan pushed aggressively by
meddling Mexican officials who reap billions of dollars in remittances
(illegal aliens' earnings sent back to Mexico) without having to lift
a finger to clean up their own country.

And the thanks we get? Internationally televised public humiliation.

On Monday night, the beautiful young woman who represented America in
the Miss Universe pageant was booed and mocked as she competed on
stage in Mexico City. Rachel Smith, 22, did her best to respond with
grace and dignity during the Top Five finalists' interview segment as
the audience disrupted the event.

As soon as co-host Vanessa Minnillo invited Miss USA to pick a judge's
name from a bowl of index cards, widespread howls broke out at the
mere mention of "USA." The verbal derision continued as judge Tony
Romo asked Smith to pick one moment in her life she would relive.

Definitely not this one.

Smith soldiered through her answer, describing an educational trip to
South Africa. Catcalls and whistles nearly drowned out Smith's reply
until she wrapped up with " Buenos noches, Mexico."

I wouldn't have been so polite.

None of Miss USA's fellow Americans participating in the interview
segment-neither Minnillo, nor macho co-host Mario Lopez, nor the
dashing Romo-came to Smith's defense. Instead, Minnillo pleaded
briefly with the unruly mob: "Okay, una momento, por favor. " Lopez
stood mute with a dumb grin on his dimpled face. Pathetic.[Video]

In fact, Smith was subjected to anti-American hatred throughout the
week-long event. Last week, during the contestants' national costume
fashion show, Smith smiled bravely as a rowdy outdoor crowd hissed and
booed at her. According to pageant observers, no other contestants
received such treatment.

Pitifully, Donald Trump and his Miss Universe officials are
downplaying Smith's experience-ignoring the fact that the last time
the pageant was held in Mexico, Miss USA was abused in similar
fashion. 1993 Miss USA Kenya Moore was infamously heckled when chosen
for the semi-finals that year.

Just a tiny minority of America-haters, right? How quickly we forget.

Do you remember what happened in Guadalajara in 2004 during an
Olympics qualification soccer match between the U.S. and Mexico? The
stadium erupted in boos during the playing of "The Star-Spangled
Banner." Fans yelled "Osama! Osama!" as the U.S. was eliminated by
Mexico.

The following year, in March 2005, Mexican soccer fans again cheered
the al Qaeda mastermind's name at a World Cup qualifier. [Vdare.com
note: Which the US won.] ESPN reported the audience again booed and
whistled during the U.S. national anthem, and plastic bags filled with
urine were reportedly tossed on American players.

One Mexican fan told the Christian Science Monitor: "'Every schoolboy
knows about 1848. . . . When they robbed our territory,' referring to
when Texas, California and New Mexico were annexed to the U.S. as part
of a peace treaty ending the war between the two countries, 'that was
the beginning.'"[Mexico aims for soccer redemption, By Danna Harman,
March 24, 2005]

This bitterness is long-standing, deep-seated and stoked by top
Mexican government officials and elites. But pointing this reality out
in the context of our crucial national debate over sovereignty,
immigration, assimilation, border security and the rule of law will
get you labeled a bigot. Our leaders have concluded that it is better
to pander, hide, pull out a friendly Spanish phrase like Minnillo did,
and pray that the hatred will go away by giving the pro-amnesty lobby
its legislative goodie-bag.

Meanwhile, as Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald points
out, the White House continues to attack opponents of the Bush-Kennedy
amnesty package as "nativists." Conservative columnist Linda Chavez
accused amnesty critics of "not liking Mexicans." Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested enforcement
advocates wanted to execute illegal aliens. And Republican Sen.
Lindsay Graham trashed immigration enforcement proponents as "bigots"
in front of the ethnocentric, open-borders group La Raza.

Yeah, we're the nativists.

Next, they'll tell us the mob at the Miss Universe pageant was simply
"doing the booing Americans won't do."

Will President Bush speak out against the treatment Miss USA received
in Mexico? Will any amnesty peddler in Washington? Imagine if Miss
Mexico were booed, heckled and subjected to chants of "USA, USA" if
the pageant had been held here.

Michelle Malkin [email her] is author of Invasion: How America Still
Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our
Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow's review. Click here for
Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin's latest book is "Unhinged:
Exposing Liberals Gone Wild."

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