Immigration and Mexico, the late silliness

So go read this right now. Ms. Valdes-Rodriguez pretty much sums up why I have to turn the channel whenever the media talks about immigration.

Open letter to CNN and other mainstream US media outlets:


1. The vast majority of Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. (75 percent of us) were born and raised here, including many of us who have roots here that predate the arrival of the pilgrims.

2. "Immigrant" is not synonymous with "Latino" and the media should stop pretending they mean the same thing.

3. The CNN analyst who said today "Keep in mind, Latino voters are LEGAL immigrants, not illegal immigrants" should be FIRED for sloppy thinking. MOST LATINOS ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS AT ALL, PINCHE CABRON.

There's more goodness at the link.

Also, real quick. Even if you think that Mexican workers are a net drain on the US economy (they aren't but let's say you just listen to different sources of numbers than I do), here's why you don't want to lock down the border. Mexican wrokers send money back to their families south of the border. It's called remittance. It's the single largest source of direct foreign money coming into Mexico. The Mexican economy is dependent on it. Mexico is our second largest trading partner (after Canada). A collapsed Mexican economy severely damages the US economy; and we really, really don't want a failed Mexico sitting right across the Rio Grande. This is the reason that we bailed out their economy in the '90s, and Mexican political stability has been a top US geopolitical/strategic priority for the last 100 years or so. And we especially don't want a bankrupt, unstable, failed-state sharing a border with the US that blames the US for it's misfortune.