Posted on 11/22/2002 3:20:37 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will be open for business Monday. It's an office that will serve a group of people that's growing rapidly in our city and state. Mayor Bart Peterson's office has worked for about two years with the Mexican government and the state of Indiana to get this consulate opened.
You don't have to look hard to see why the consulate is needed. Drive down Washington Street a few miles west of downtown, and you'll see the fruits of our Hispanic and Latino community's labor. Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish. There are now some 34,000 Latinos and Hispanics in Indianapolis, and 60% of them are Mexican.
"We have an education system that welcomes the immigrants and we like the way we are treated because we find that the American community is welcoming in general," said Roberto Curci, La Guia Magazine.
The city even has two publications geared toward this growing community. "The Voice of Indiana," a bilingual newspaper and "The Guide of Indianapolis," a magazine for Hispanics and Latinos. There's even a new Hispanic and Latino yellow pages.
Local businesses are forging ties with that community. Kroger just donated a van to the Hispanic Center of Indianapolis to thank them for translation help that the center has provided for the grocery chain.
"As we change and we are changing as a city, I think it was important for business to recognize that and we have recognized it," said Jeff Golc, Kroger.
The change will continue. Just ask the woman who helps run the grocery store on West Washington Street. New Hispanic and Latino customers come in for her authentic products all the time.
"Like once in a while there will be somebody new that comes. You know, like, "Oh, we just moved here and we came to see how it is." So yeah, we always get new people that come here," said Irasema Delgado, store manager.
The Mexican Consulate will serve three states: Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. It will serve as the Mexican government's primary link with those states on issues such as immigration, trade and economic development.
You have to stop looking at threads like these as serious and look at them as a bad remake of an old Saturday Night Live.
Loosen up. Hispanics went into a crime ridden city slum and turned it into a nice place to live...then a couple of folks come along and tell you this is a bad thing. It doesn't get much funnier then that.
I have no desire to see it but I understand it all about a group of "real American types" demonstrating their cultural superiority.
If they are in Indiana they are.
They ought to now go into Ciudad Juarez or Mexico City and do the same!! I wonder how Guiliani's doing with the job they brought him in for ----how strange --they didn't need him after all.
This is completely false. The illegal immigration problem has grown exponentially as we have taken up policies of non-enforcement, handouts and amnesties. This problem is a crime wave created by a govt that will not do it's job.
Yes in fact they are.
All in perceptions again. If you're all alone and there are twenty of them...you still have them out numbered.
As for you six, don't worry about it...they're firing blanks. Look at Joe's comment following your post:
"If they are in Indiana they are."
He automatically states that Krogers is hiring illegals. See, blanks. In his mind it's impossible that Hispanics can make a community better...and all Hispanics must be illegal.
Blanks.
I agree. If they can improve a community they should do it...look at Indianapolis.
I'm hoping Tanscredo will get rid of them also.
We are talking about illegal immigration btw.
Man, pay good pesos to see that when you can watch all the Jackasses you want right here for free. May even get a little inside info into the NWO, burgerbuilders, etc and how the build them babbling towers.... hey the sun will rise in the morn and it will be a lovely day.
Only tinkerbell would believe that major companies don't hire illegal aliens.
GET A CLUE CWO, EVEN OUR SECURITY AT OUR MAJOR AIRPORTS ARE INFESTED WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Wake up man!
except of course for little things like schools
Paul Revere rides again. TANCREDO FOR PRESIDENT!.
Not really. There's been no information concerning the legal or illegal status of the people of Hispanic dessent in Indianapolis whatsoever. Indeed, most of the complaints make their distinction based on language, signs and culture, none of which are defined by the Constitution.
One third of European immigrants moved back home within a short time because they were unable to make it in the USA but that was before all the many welfare programs that encourage non-self-sufficient immigrants to stay when they should leave. Mexican immigration would be a different matter if welfare didn't exist because the ones who are incapable of making a living here would return to Mexico. Pre welfare immigration with post welfare immigration aren't comparable.
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