So if being a citizen of the United States is simply an accident of geography, why couldn’t the same be said of Mexican and Central Americans? I’m sure there are millions of solid agricultural people from around the world who would like to work in the United States, why should Mexicans receive special status because they live nearby? They didn’t do anything to attain such a stroke of good fortune. My biggest issue with Mexican immigration, legal and illegal, is the sheer tribal and ethnic arrogance that they have some kind of special right to go to the front of the line, or worse, to drive right over the fence, while the rest of the people of the world who are not from their tribe can wait behind them. And if you listen to the arguments from Mexcians when the argument above is mentioned, they immediately and reflexively claim that whole parts of the US really belongs to them. Beneath the rhetoric, the Mexicans are ethnic chauvinists who use their accident of geography to forward arguments of special pleading. When it comes down to it, the Mexican illegals and their US political handlers use the idea of a tolerant and open society, along with a sentimental pursuit of a diverse workforce, to achieve tribal and ethnocentric ends; they are not really giving the finger to native born Americans so much as they are telling the rest of the world’s poor workers that they control the US political landscape, and those not connected can stay out.
