Useless Discrimination
It’s been almost a year. So?
I stumbled upon a video from CNN, where Glenn Beck is “sending a message” to Mexican president Felipe Calderón, where once again Mexico’s government is being trolled on. I understand the posture on some people from the US about Mexico’s immigration issue, but what I cannot understand is how this hypocrite-to-say-the-least receives airtime to publicly insult an ethnic group which serves his food, cleans his house and works the fields he doesn’t. Go on, give those jobs to US citizens and see how they’ll shove that job back at you. Now, as shown on the video, Mexico’s president states that he is worried about the unilateral posture on the issue, he does not say anything about the continent’s or the country’s definition, so where is this guy getting his bases from?
The immigration issue can be considered as an economical fix for the US. There is an unsatiable offer on basic employment, and since US citizens turn their heads away, the government turns theirs to illegal aliens. This solves an economical and a comfort problem for the stars and stripes country, since they pay aliens a hell of a lot less than what they would pay a registered citizen on most any basic job and even sometimes taking advantage to work law as a business strategy, so some of those anti-immigrant protesters such as this guy might want to remember to pay their taxes when they pay their gardener/maid/butler/housekeeper/etc since of course they pay cash and by not paying taxes on that they too are contributing to the country’s phantom economical issue. Now, if the US was genuinely worried about this “immigration thingie” they would’ve done something by now (because as this guy implies, the US is the best country to be in, so they should have the most efficient government, right?), instead of just wasting their time looking the other way and preaching on the “problem” that this has turned into. Right…
I’d like to invite you to read Gustavo Arellano, he has a column on Orange County Weekly titled Ask a Mexican where as you’ve implied, he answers questions from a Mexican standpoint. Most of them are silly questions, but every now and again he gets political which is the reason for this invitation (he’s not the only one with a column of this sort, but is the one that comes to mind). In the meantime I’ll stop my rant here, but feel free to reply from any point of view. And props to Dalia for the e-mail (I miss you!).
Take care and misbehave.
