“Most Americans think of Mexicans as short and dark, despite the fact that Mexican President Vicente Fox is tall and white. So what really is a Mexican, and who is in charge of Mexico? Americans are getting a confused picture, while illegal immigration is rampant, with all its attendant ills. Americans see hordes of swarthy, illiterate workers, yet American media flaunts a ‘white,’ professional Mexican, as president. The reality is the white upperclass really does rule Mexico. Their chauvinism – and the lack of patriotism shown by most of the Mexican population – has helped create America’s illegal immigration problem.
The rulers of Mexico have always been Spanish, or what we might call, Castilian. They are indeed Caucasian, but they are very few in number. Today they make up less than 10 percent of the total population of over 106 million people. The indigenous groups (Mexican Indians) total about 30 percent of the population, and the predominant group, the famous ‘mestizos’ (mixed Indio-Caucasian), comprise about 60 percent.
The mestizos, of course, represent most of the Mexican population migrating (legally or illegally) into America. They definitely do not appear white, but nor do they appear Indian. The 2001 estimate put 40 percent of the Mexican population below the poverty line. Most of what Americans see immigrating, particularly illegally, are in this sector.”
- Florida senator wants to deny suspected MS-13 gang members entry into the U.S. What a novel idea!
- Texas governor to allow Minuteman volunteers to do the job the federal government refuses to do.
- Bryan Preston: “The border with Mexico is the path of least resistance if you want to get anyone or anything nefarious into the US. “
Very interesting.
Comment by Eddie — 06.03.05 @ 9:09 am
La Shawn:
The irony is in the color.
The “White Mexicans” are the ones actively encouraging the “Brown people” to migrate North.
But after about one generation, the “Brown people” are educated and wealthy beyond the dreams of the “White Mexicans” who drove them North.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 06.03.05 @ 9:22 am
Frank, good point. Imagine the nightmare if & when the political landscape changes and people stream back home to capitalize on that. We can only hope that we manage to spark a democratic revolution there. The Jalapeno Revolution?
Comment by Andy — 06.03.05 @ 9:34 am
Frank you are not correct. The ‘white’ Mexicans represent the upper crust where the wealth consolidates. The illegal immigrants actually improve the status of the upper crust as American money is reinvested in the Mexican economy and those who control the industries, in general the Castillians reap the ultimate benefit in terms of wealth increase.
Illegal immigration obviously improves the status of the illegals and there families as well, otherwise there wouldn’t be the amount that there are.
So theoretically, for every American dollar an alien earns and sends back to Mexico, the owners of industry (traditionally Castillians) receive through the purchase of their much need goods and services.
There are only two possible solutions to the illegal alien problem, one reactive and one proactive.
The reactive solution is to dissincent *sp American Corps and Businesses from utilization illegal immigration by making the cost much harsher than the benefits thereby limiting demand. I advocate a minimum $100,000 penalty for every corporation proved to KNOWINGLY use illegal aliens.
The proactive solution is as has been suggested. Improve the economy of Mexico to the point where supply of illegal aliens into America decreases because there is no need of the Mexicans to come to America. This is obviously a long term and technically more difficult solution but one that I feel is necessary.
Comment by Dell Gines — 06.03.05 @ 9:49 am
Oops…correction that is $100,000 penalty for every illegal immigrant working in these companies, not in total.
Comment by Dell Gines — 06.03.05 @ 9:50 am
Some day these people will realize that they have to leave home to earn a living because the 400 families will not share the nations’ wealth.
Comment by Walter E. Wallis — 06.03.05 @ 10:07 am
I think they already do, Walter, but one thing that struck me very deeply from my time living in Mexico was the fatalism of the campesinos, born of centuries of exploitation by outsiders and elites going back at least to Cortez, if not to the kings of the indigenous civilizations that ruled before the Spanish ever came. Their attitude seems to be “That’s the way things are, and there’s nothing that can be done about it.” (Or, in fewer words, “Ni modo.”) And it’s much easier to strike out toward el norte than to start a revolution… the outcome of which we gringos might not like very much, either.
Comment by Stephen Tilson — 06.03.05 @ 11:01 am
I’m a little confused. Racism can’t be the reason people are disadvantaged and suffer. It is their own fault. Right? All of the Black and Brown And Red and Yellow people just need to face the fact that they are inferior in every way to Whites. Enough already! (I actually typed that with a straight face.)
Comment by Rafael Daniel — 06.03.05 @ 11:14 am
What’s really being overlooked is the rationale some use to excuse illegal immigration:
“They do the types of jobs Americans won’t do.”
“We need the cheap labor to compete economically.”
“They’re use to hard work and are hare workers.”
If this tune sounds familiar that’s because the same rationale and justification was used to import and keep slaves in Early America.
As long as the illegal immigrant stays in his place and doesn’t get upitty, he might be able to get by.
Yes folks it’s slavery. Politicians are allowing illegal immigrants into this country to supply the labor market. The illegals may have it better than slaves in our early history, but they are still bound to their “master” through threats and intimidation( exploitation, exposure and deportation).
Comment by Ripama — 06.03.05 @ 11:54 am
“But after about one generation, the “Brown people” are educated and wealthy beyond the dreams of “White Mexicans” who drove them North.” —Frank Zavisca
Not when they don’t value education. Mexican/Migrant children are put to work. You see them out in the fields side by side with their parents, and the children of Illegal Aliens have a high degree of teenage pregnancy. They don’t learn English before they get here, which means they’ll never advance. At least the Irish and Italians spoke English before they ever got off the boat, making it easy for them, and their children to move into college education.
By the way, official Castillian Spanish (the kind I was taught in high school) is completely different from the slang/street Spanish that the Aliens speak.
They are going nowhere without language/communication skills.
Comment by Glamchild — 06.03.05 @ 1:24 pm
AWESOME observation! And we wonder why Vicente doesn’t want us closing our borders….hmmmmm
Comment by Renee — 06.03.05 @ 1:42 pm
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been laughed at for talking about “white Mexicans”. Nobody in America had really seen a white Mexican, so I’m crazy, right? La Shawn, you have just so seriously made my day. I’M RIGHT!!! lol
Comment by RepJ — 06.03.05 @ 5:09 pm
“But if there is resentment in them, it should be toward Mexico, not the United States…Given the realities of today, I’d say there’s a need for the Mexican people to focus on Mexico, if they have any national pride at all. The claim to own the American southwest is a pathetic piece of Communist propaganda…” Exactly. That’s why the leftist propaganda in the US created by the hispanic intelligencia, in their effort to brainwash the illegal immigrants, makes me mad, enough to not vote for people who buy into it.
Comment by mj — 06.03.05 @ 7:11 pm
La Shawn, you have just tread on forbidden territory with this post. The race issue is, officially, non existent in Hispanic countries. We are constantly told of how they are paragons of racial harmony, it shows how easily the liberals are fooled.
Thanks for your support.
Comment by NYgirl — 06.03.05 @ 7:29 pm
I’ve been living 5 years in Ecuador (74-78) and 8 in Brazil (Amazonas)(78-80.The race issue was exactly as NYgirl says and is still there now.Though I would say it’s a South American issue and, IMHO, leftists are not fooled but try to take advantage of the situation by all meeans.
Comment by Willy — 06.04.05 @ 9:10 am
Has anyone seen the new commercial for Mexico?
You know the one where this very Spanish looking woman invites a white couple to join in the celebration of her very Spanish looking daughters wedding. That says enough for me!
I try to get people to understand that Fox wants native Mexicans to leave so he can align Mexico with the Motherland Spain. And right on target the natives leave. Let THEM go.
Yeah, you have Mexico City, Cancun, Acapolco, but Fox and the rest of his Spanish ilk prefer Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville. How very Castillian of them. I’m amazed as to how blind the native Mexican people are to this nonsense!
I won’t allow what Fox has said to bother me because WE were the ones doing the things he believes most blacks wouldn’t do. You know the mopping, scrubbing, etc. Also, if you go to most fast food places I still see many faces that look just like mine so, other people and get as mad as they want to be.
Besides, maybe there is some kind of point. Like it or not once a upon a time WE worked from sun up to sun down FREE OF CHARGE!!!! The economy of this nation at the time of it’s birth rested upon OUR shoulders!!!! So, I not in any mood to listen to angry individuals. There was a reason why the framers of the constitution decided NOT to address the S word. We know the history. So, let address the problem at hand.
Mexicans, you are not wanted in YOUR own country!
Wake up! Go Home! Take you country back from the Castillians who hate and despise you!
As far as the Spaniards are concerned there will never be anyone who looks like you to represent Mexico!! Too ethnic!! Too Indian!! Your Inca and Aztec ancestors call out to you to do something about your situation.
Comment by Stephanie — 06.04.05 @ 11:44 am
First of all, the social & power dynamics of America are founded on immigration. Since Plymouth Rock, people have been coming to America for opportunity. The “immigration problem” is as American as apple pie.
Second, whether documented or undocumented, immigrants who come to America are all responding to the same global socio-economic pressures. Until those issues are addressed globally, immigration will continue to happen en mass.
Third, the legality of that migration is a minor issue. Legality isn’t a direct indicator of morality any more than illegality is of immorality. I’m particularly tired of the black & brown in-fighting on this issue. Let’s remember, the forced migration of African slaves was legal - but it was just as more morally reprehensible as the current climate of human trafficking. Stop the “Wake up - Go home!” arguments. Nobody is telling the Irish to go home.
My wife came illegally to the US at 14, never recieved state-sponsored health care, got a college education at a private elite school and (now ‘legal’) pays her taxes just like everyone else. She is short and dark - not swarthy and illiterate.
Lastly, it is time - as other’s have hinted at - to place the financial responsibility on the employers that are benefitting from this, instead of scapegoating immigrants. Instead of militarizing the border, let’s put greater investment to the enforcement of violations of current employment practices.
Comment by Scott — 06.06.05 @ 1:55 pm
Scott, you have valid points.
Comment by Andy — 06.06.05 @ 7:15 pm
As a evangelical, and as a Mexican woman in the U.S., I’m appalled by what I see reported in this particular blog post. It is embarrassing journalism to read that “a lack of patriotism by shown by most of the Mexican population – has helped create America’s illegal immigration problem.”
Please verify the research, or quote your source for this rational. And then please explain how poor patriotism, not the desire to feed one’s family or the global economic reality has created America’s immigration problem.
I’m not asking you to support illegal immigration, especially not the migration of MS-13 gang members, nor the immoral human trafficking that happens along the border. But please, don’t report unsupported statements that only add to the racial animosity that corrodes otherwise legitimate immigration debate.
I hate to break it to you, Veronica, but nobody’s practicing journalism on this blog. I provide links to news and toss in my 2 cents accordingly. Every now and then I’ll report something, but that’s as far as it goes. Commenters are responding to the posts, not practicing journalism. Other than that, fair response. - Admin
Comment by Veronica — 06.07.05 @ 12:45 pm