“Oh Mr. Ramos, the “illegals” broke the law already by crossing that “southern border” as in “breaking and entering.””
Mr Ramos does not recognize that border, in fact IMO he thinks that the entire southwest U.S. rightfully belongs to Mexico.
Ramos is not alone. It's what Mexicans were taught in school and hear their entire life.
In a Zogby poll (LINK) only 28% of Mexicans believed that the U.S. Southwest belongs to the US (not Mexico) and only 35% of Mexicans believed that Mexicans do NOT have the right to enter the US as they please. The exact questions & responses were as follows:
Do you agree or disagree that the territory of the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico?Agree: 58 percentDo you agree or disagree that Mexicans should have the right to enter the United States without U.S. permission?
Disagree: 28 percent <= *
Not sure: 14 percentAgree: 57 percent
Disagree: 35 percent <= *
Not sure: 7 percent
In that same poll:
When asked “Should the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans be to Mexico or to the U.S.?”[Note the poll is old. I've been trying for years to find a newer one... But it appears the results and the possible effect they may have on Americans' attitude on immigration, scared establishment pollsters enough that, since then, they've avoided the topic like a plaque.]> 68.8 percent of respondents said that it should be to Mexico.
When asked, “If the U.S. gave permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants (migrantes indocumentados), do you think it would make your friends and family members more likely or less likely to go to the U.S. as indocumentados, or would it make no difference?”
> 56.2 percent of respondents answered “more likely.”
plaque = plague