Wednesday, September 10, 2003
The "Hispanic Vote" and Illegal Immigrants
GOP advisors seeking the "Hispanic vote" would do well to read this item from the Los Angeles Times, "Candidates Skirt Immigration Issue":
Down the Pasadena Freeway at Alhambra Park, where Latino families picnicked with carne asada and mariachi music, Xavier Flores, a loan executive in Los Angeles, said he supported the driver's license law and resented those who blamed Latinos for the state's problems with illegal immigration.
"Anytime a knucklehead says, 'Send 'em back to Mexico,' I say: 'This is Mexico!' " said Flores, a sixth-generation American of Mexican descent. His ancestors arrived in the Southwest before the United States conquered what was then Mexican territory, he said, asking, "Why doesn't anyone ever say, 'Send 'em back to Canada?' It's racist."
So Flores is a radical Hispanic activist who wants to hear about a Republican amnesty for illegal aliens? Not quite:
But both Flores and his neighbor, Gabriel Gomez, said they also supported curbs on illegal immigration. Gomez, a Los Angeles plumber and third-generation Mexican American, said his business has suffered from the cut-rate competition of illegal immigrants.
"When you get illegals doing the job at half the price, you can't compete," Gomez said, adding that if their numbers were reduced, "it would give opportunities for those of us who really deserve them."
|posted by Jim on 8:57 PM|
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