It is quite obvious that Mr. Navarrette does not actually know any Mexican immigrants, legal or otherwise. I live in the largest border state and I know plenty of Mexicans. There are many themes in Mexican communities here in the USA and the most common by far is the absolute refusal to assimilate. I’ve met elderly Mexicans who have been here legally and illegally for decades. Do they know how to speak English? Nope. Do they encourage their kids and grandkids to speak English? Nope. Do they expect the USA to accommodate them in every way? Yep.
I once visited a gas station in a “little Mexico” area of Dallas, of which there are many. The credit card readers on all the pumps were broken so I went inside with everyone else. A white couple was in front of me and the cashier claimed to not know English, and so he couldn’t help them. He just refused to let them pay for gas and be on their way. Unfortunately for the cashier, I speak Spanish so I jumped in and ordered him to get off his lazy butt and do his job. He switched to English and told me he didn’t speak Spanish. The couple was outraged and they left. I was outraged and demanded his manager’s name and phone number. Her refused to give it to me. I went back to my car, grabbed my Windows Mobile device and looked up the info online, then I called the corporate headquarters and explained what happened. I went back into the gas station just as the phone was ringing. The cashier picked it up and was silent for a bit, then he started making excuses and lying to corporate about what happened. He claimed the couple, and myself, had called him a “dirty Mexican” among other slurs. I hit redial on my device as he was talking and I disputed his version of events. I was asked if I could hang around for 20 minutes so I did just that. A regional manager appeared in 20 minutes along with a replacement cashier. I summed everything up for the manager and she began talking to Mr. Mexican. She finally got him to admit to lying about the whole thing, and he also admitted that he behaved that way because he doesn’t like white people. Apparently, there was an issue with his personnel file at corporate and she asked him for his ID and Social Security card. The cashier had none, because he was here illegally. The manager called the police and Mr. Mexican was taken away, hopefully far away. The franchise owner who hired the guy was nowhere to be found and I don’t know what became of that. I received a bunch of free gas cards, and the satisfaction of watching that guy being driven off in the back seat of a police cruiser.
That Mexican was here illegally but he felt free enough to actually harass American citizens. You can see that all over the place. Heck, I just read a news story about a 10 year-old girl in Idaho who was raped by an illegal Mexican. She became pregnant and gave birth to his anchor baby. Is that assimilating into our society? Not even close.
I often ask Mexicans who display their flag on their cars, clothing, or wave it around on holidays, if Mexico is so great then why are you here? They always become angry and tell me that Mexico has a wonderful heritage, there’s just no money there. I simply tell them that a heritage of extreme poverty is not much of a heritage, and certainly not one to be proud of. The reaction is always the same – they are offended, and how dare I speak of Mexico in such a way. I tell them that if they don’t like our First Amendment then they should go back to Mexico and leave us alone.
When I drive past the various Cinco De Mayo parades every year, I honk until they start waving at me, then I stick my arm out the window and display my middle finger. All those Mexicans out there waving the Mexican flag are nowhere to be found on the 4th of July or any other American holiday. They refuse to assimilate so I do everything possible to make them feel uncomfortable. I never want them to forget that they are not welcome here.
Comparing Mexican migrants to European migrants is silly. Mexicans are from the third-world, Europeans are not. Mexicans are bringing the third-world directly to us and our government sits around playing the PC game. I’m currently making plans to move north, far away from the border. I read a local news story that made me decide to leave. The story was from my small suburban city, where crime is very low at least for now. The story said that a placenta was found next to a dumpster in an alley behind an auto parts store. It took a few weeks for police to locate the owner of said body part and it wasn’t that loony artist from Yale. The police report confirmed what I already knew – that only an illegal immigrant from the third-world would do something like that.
The MSM and activist groups can say whatever they want about how great Mexicans are. The reality on the street is very different. I’m sure there are some decent Mexican immigrants out there but they are a tiny minority of the total Mexican migrant population in the USA. There’s no need to rely on the MSM for info, one can freely travel our great land and see for themselves.
Whenever I see a Mexican flag or colors on display for any reason, I exercise my First Amendment rights to complain and question the displays. When I’m in traffic and a pickup truck full of Mexicans is next to me blaring their hideous music to the point of distortion, I push a button in my car and they get 1,000 watts of the classic S.O.D. song – “Speak English or Die”. They don’t like it one bit, and that’s exactly why I do it. They should feel as if we don’t like them, that they are not assimilating and we can do something about it as individuals. If our government won’t do the job then it’s up to us to make them as uncomfortable as possible. Right now they are seeing me exercising my First Amendment rights. If anyone threatens me or tries to commit a crime against me, they will get to see my Second Amendment rights. There was a time when I had tolerance for Mexican immigrants but that’s all gone now – it’s been used up by their behavior.
