It seems that everyday you hear of a new Arizona law designed to drive brown-skinned people out of the state. The latest proposed legislation will force educators to become immigration agents, by making them determine if the parents of their students are here legally.
Unfortunately many of these policies, and anger at Latinos, are gaining traction. I've listened to liberal radio shows and heard blue-collar workers call in and vent their frustrations at Mexicans who are stealing their jobs, driving down wages and clogging up the health care system.
There is real anger from many segments of America at the state of the economy. Sadly it seems that some politicians are looking to direct that anger at "foreigners," or anyone who looks illegal. It's not surprising there have been incidents of Latino workers being attacked by groups of young men.
This is the same tactic used by the Russian Neo-Nazi movement that takes angry, disaffected men and tells them those black and brown people are the real enemy. Ethnic (white Russians) make up 80 percent of the population, although there are several people from the minority groups that use to comprise the old Soviet Union. However, the idea of a Russian Nazi is darkly ironic considering that about 20 million Russians died in the war against' Hitler's Germany.
So the next time you hear an American raging about how Mexicans have taken his job, stop and think about where that rage is coming from.
Thanks for this heads up...we need to be very, very worried about the direction this is going.
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ReplyDeleteThe US imposed a drug war on Mexico that is killing people there, driving them to come to the US. Solution: Mexico decriminalizes drugs, their gangs come to the US to sell them, and the US is forced to decriminalize in order to take the profits out.
ReplyDeleteThe same people who blame Mexicans also blame unions, so workers here can expect lower wages.