How Massive is the Mexican Consulate System in America?
Mexico has just opened their 46th consulate in St. Paul, Minnesota. For the Minneapolis-St. Paul and surrounding suburbs “it [the consulate] was already a latecomer to a bustling Mexican-American community that included, according to consular official, 22 churches offering services in Spanish, 9 Spanish language newspapers, 3 tortilla makers and 9 Hispanic – mostly Mexican soccer leagues.”(24) The Mexican consulate official chides his country’s efforts by saying: ‘We are responding to the needs of the Mexican community’ [of mostly illegal aliens], said Nathan Wolf, the new consul. ‘We are just following the movement of people.'(24) Don’t you wonder how they are able to keep up since Mexicans are overrunning hundreds and hundreds of our cities and towns all across America? “They call Minneapolis the new Axochiapan, said Ramiro Hernandez, a successful businessman who arrived in the United States illegally 20 years ago from Axochiapan, a small town in the central Mexican state of Morelos.
