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Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho
Upon reading this thread, I notice that there is a huge focus on the Hispanic population in the conversation. My perspective might be a bit different because I grew up in a large city...
Considering that there are illegals from many different countries, I find it unacceptable that these kinds of laws tend to focus on hispanics. Do you think that they are demanding the papers of the people with Romanian accents? It has been my experince that people generally don't. They aren't 'suspected' even though it is obvious that they are foriegn born.
NYC, and the surrounding areas, is as much a collection of little neighborhoods as it is a large city. It's not hard to find legal and illegal Russian, Jamaican, Korean or any other flavor of immigrant. Still, even here, people seem to focus on the Mexicans, like they are the source of all of the ills of this society and economy.
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Very true,
The focus on Mexicans also comes because they do not get visas (just cross the river) and thus there is no check at all. People who come here via plane (Europeans, Asians, most South Americans, etc.) need to get a visa, and in order to get one you have to be upper middle class and higher, as you must meet the US standards of likelihood to return to your country (measured in material ties, i.e. job, house, cars, etc.).
I was interested yesterday talking with my babysitter (who is Peruvian born) and her son who is a sophmore in high school. He made varsity football in freshman year, and was approached by two private high schools (he goes to public) with the offer of a scholarship. One of them is a school I have considered putting my daughter in once she gets to high school to give her better college opportunities (it is the next town over from ours). In any case, he turned them down. I was astonished and I asked him why. His answer? "The kids there are racist".
This kid is American
and Hispanic. This is the message that the American youth is receiving, anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic, divisiveness and bigotry.
Too bad he didn't ask me before, I would have told him to go ahead and accept the scholarship, just be sure to carry his American passport in his hand down the hall for the first couple of months,
