It's more than kissing babies and eating tacos...
The WaPo has a pretty decent piece on the "Latino Vote" issue:
After the forum, the Diaz family continued to parse the candidates' responses. Gilberto Diaz was stuck on the question about a border barrier."They never said, "Why Mexico and not Canada?' " he said, sounding disappointed.
"Why don't they just say they don't want Mexicans to come in?' " asked his daughter, Marisa. "They don't want us."
"They want our votes," Olivia Diaz said.
NDNs run into the same issue, though we don't even get the pandering. Only two or three Democratic candidates even appeared at the Native American debate last month (though it was somewhat more complicated that just that.)
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I don't mind at all if Mexicans come to the US. I just want them to come legally.
Why is that such a hard point to understand?
We cannot solve the problems of systemic poverty and unemployment in Central and South America by allowing them all into the US. We don't don't have literally tens of thousands of Canadians illegally entering the US every month. That's why the efforts focus on the Mexican, not the Canadian, border.
Posted by: zak822 | September 11, 2007 10:54 AM
They're Indians. I suspect you're not. So when are you taking your illegal tush back to your country of origin?
Posted by: MBW | September 11, 2007 11:10 AM
BTW, I come from a state which had an "immigration problem" in the last century, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers flowing across the border. Yes, the Canadian border.
Maine still has two official languages - English and French. And a third of our state's population is now descended from those "illegal." Frankly, I wish it were a higher percentage. When I was a kid, the only people who treated Indians with decency were the "Canucks." To the whites, we were just "wood n*ggers." (Maine had an exceptionally large KKK membership, with a 1920's period KKK picnic in Portland attracting over 20,000. The target of their hatred? Indians and French-Canadian immigrants.)
Posted by: MBW | September 11, 2007 11:26 AM