Mexicans and othe South Americans are F@cking WHITE! They have the same ancestry as those who populate North America. A mix of European, Native and African decent.
MOST upper classes in South America are as White and the pure driven snow. Look at the home page of Telemundo. It looks like an add for Norway!
Jorge Ramos has blond hair and BLUE EYES. He is not a person of color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And this is the tragedy. If Mexicans came here to be American, to speak English and to assimilate with and identify with the native Anglo population then there would not be much opposition to Hispanic immigration. We just had two Republican candidates that were of Hispanic background. But they identified themselves as Americans and not as Hispanic so no-one cared. It is by placing themselves in opposition to the native Anglo population, insisting on the use of Spanish rather than English, that is the reason for the growing opposition to Mexican immigration. I know of many second or third generation "Hispanics" whose only Hispanic qualities are their last names and the food their grandmothers cook. They are, and are accepted as, Americans because they do not see themselves as a separate tribe. But of course then they do not need the government to address inequalities that do not exist.
If Jose Rodriguez, Li Xiping, and Aarav Gupta want to come to the United States and become Americans then we our history has shown that they will be welcomed. But if they want to come here and remain Mexican, Chinese or Indian; speaking Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi and isolating themselves from the native majority population and seeking to replace it as the majority then they should stay home. As a nation we have an obligation to treat all our citizens with equality. But, and this has been lost on the present generation, those who wish to come here also have an obligation to join and assimilate with the existing native population. To import a foreign population to displace the native population is called colonization and we have a right to resist it as much as any other nation.
In Mexico the dominant social classes are all primarily of european extraction (Spain, Portugal, France, etc.), all the lower classes are peon mestizo (native american mixes), you can see it in every aspect of life there.
The peons are treated much worse than any ethnic group sub group in the United States, for all intents and purposes they are still slaves to their WHITE EUROPEAN masters.
What we get here in the US are their social low (not lower, but the lowest) outcasts; their criminals, lazy, illiterate, trash, that the upper classes have found a convenient place to dump and make somebody else’s problem.
WRONG. The majority of Latin Americans are NOT WHITE. You cannot be mestizo or mulatto and be white. Sorry, thanks for playing.