When I first read this article in a local newspaper, I re-read it, thinking that somehow I had missed the point. Nope. The second reading resulted in the same impression as the first, which was: is the author kidding? Could he actually be serious about this? I will give him credit for one thing: he actually uses the word “Mexican”, not some other hyphenated euphemism. But if there remains one thing that some Americans of Mexican descent seem to be blind to, it’s this: one Mexican entering the country illegally and working hard to become part of the society is perhaps an endearing story. Millions of Mexicans entering the country ( any country ) and acting as if it’s no big deal is – at the very least – a problem. For the author to make the convoluted moral equivalency he does between Mexican immigration and this particular non-Mexican immigrant is more evidence of how detached from reality people can become when they have made up their minds in advance. ( Another word for this phenomenon is prejudice, the driving force behind racial tensions. )
