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¡Ask a Mexican! Why don’t Mexicans have enough gratitude for America to learn to speak English?

Gustavo Arellano responds to another ignorant question:

Dear Mexican,

Why don’t Mexicans have enough gratitude for America to learn to speak English? Are they too stupid? Too lazy? …

TOOK FOUR YEARS OF SPANISH IN HIGH SCHOOL

Dear Gabacho,

The United States government shares your concerns, Took Four Years. Its Dillingham Commission released a 42-volume study on the waves of immigrants that concluded, “The new immigration as a class is far less intelligent than the old. … Generally speaking they are actuated in coming by different ideals, for the old immigration came to be a part of the country, while the new, in a large measure, comes with the intention of profiting, in a pecuniary way, by the superior advantages of the new world and then returning to the old country.” Sound familiar? That’s because the Dillingham report appeared in 1911, and the inassimilable masses at the time were eastern and northern Europeans. The Dillingham Commission proves that the time-honored conservative anecdote that earlier generations of immigrants walked off the boats, chopped down their multisyllabic surnames and learned English immediately is (nonsense). American racism is a carousel and here we are again.

From: ¡Ask a Mexican! Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

A Nation of Immigrants Clashes over the Future

Last year alone, Border Patrol officers arrested 1.2 million people along this border. Half that number again may have entered the US without getting caught.

“Give me your tired, your poor…”

America is a nation of immigrants. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” reads the inscription on New York’s Statue of Liberty. But the nation is deeply divided over the question of whether this promise is valid for the tired and poor arriving every day in Arivaca Valley or elsewhere along the USA’s 3,141 kilometer (1,952 mile) southern border.

America’s ”Tower of Babel”?

Tom Tancredo, a House Republican who voted for a tougher immigration law last year, claims America is becoming a new “Tower of Babel.”  The bill envisions sensors, drones, and giant fences along the southern border to prevent illegal transitions from the Third to the First World. Under this bill, anyone providing medical treatment to illegal immigrants would be legally punishable. The measure would “literally criminalize the good Samaritan and probably even Jesus,” Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton has said.

Yale Global: Univision Gives Citizenship Drive an Unusual Lift

Yale’s Online newspaper, “Yale Global” discusses the recent citizenship drive initiated by Univsion to inspire legal residents to vote. As was previously reported, this drive could significantly influence the 2008 election. Read the Yale article for more in depth coverage. Or click here:

From Yale Global:

More than 8 million legal permanent residents are eligible for citizenship in the US. Univision Communications is working with activists to encourage such green-card holders to collect their citizenship papers and participate in the 2008 presidential election. Such a large voting bloc could help Latino candidates and also influence the ongoing debate on immigration reform. The largest Spanish-language broadcast network in the US describes the citizenship drive as a nonpartisan effort to empower viewers, but analysts predict any upswing in Latino voters to favor Democrats more than Republicans. It takes about seven months for green-card holders to complete the procedures for citizenship, and already US Citizenship and Immigration Services employees report a large increase in applications. An extra incentive behind the drive – the US is expected to increase fees for citizenship applications and include tough questions in a new test. The company plans to follow the citizenship drive with massive voter drives in the months ahead.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Peace Not War: Art Gallery

True Leaders Work for Peace

Same Shit Different Asshole

Gotta love free speach:

A Gabacho In Chicano Park

Read the article written by the anti Immigration “watchdogs.” Their comments and hatred will surprise you. It’s sad to think that there are so many bigots in this world. You’d be surprised how many times people type in “Kill Mexicans” in the search engines. This country is full of a lot of hate, and it’s really sad.

A Gabacho In Chicano Park

Whites resistant to affirmative action “to protect fellow whites”

Paper: Whites resistant to affirmative action “to protect fellow whites”

The strongest source of white opposition to affirmative action today is neither racism nor a sincere conviction that any favoritism, even if compensatory, is wrong, but rather a “desire to protect fellow whites,” three scholars argue in a paper released last week by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

Comment: How come it’s considered okay if any other group wants to protect itself and to demand equal protection before the law, but not for whites to do the same?

My Response:

Because whites have been keeping EVERY OTHER RACE for at least as long as this country was invaded. The whites have had centuries to be wealthy, acquire land, wealth, status, roots in the established economy. While at the same time keeping all others of a different race down. So now that we want the same opportunity to advance it’s considered racism.

‘I HOPE TO BE THE FIRST LATINO PRESIDENT’

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who made his formal announcement in Los Angeles last Tuesday, saying in Spanish, “With pride, I hope to be the first Latino president of the United States.” 

But Richardson’s problem is that Latino voters don’t know he’s Latino. Though there’s no guarantee that they will vote for him simply because of his ethnicity, his trailblazing endeavor would certainly bring him a much greater share of attention from the nation’s fastest-growing minority community if that heritage were common knowledge.