The notion that Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, or any of the other groups listed above (which I chose as they all show up in the 25% immigrant statistic for California), are somehow different is unsupportable.
Mexicans, however, because of historical conflicts and resentment between the US and Mexico over now-sovereign US territory, socialist beliefs, widespread culture of corruption, and the violence-prone nature of their country of origin, are a different matter.
I see plenty of Mexican flags flying here in California. And it's not because they are showing appreciation for their heritage.
Some are in deep denial about the threat of the reconquista types. A big meeting was held for them in Tijuana recently.Some comments from the get together:
"All this money and effort to stop descendants of the original Americans from walking where their ancestors freely traveled before others, who really were immigrants, decided to place a border here to keep the natives out."
"Representatives of the Union del Barrio in Los Angeles testified that, "the US penal system maintains capitalism. We have many prisoners on the Other Side. They have to be part of a mass movement together with us."
"[Attending were]The Brown Berets that conducts a "Migra Watch" in its neighborhoods, under siege by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) of the US Department of Homeland Security and its frequent raids hunting for "illegals."
"But the overwhelming majority of those who came south to Tijuana for this meeting were young people, hundreds that ardently believe in "another way of doing politics," the Zapatista way."
"Students from UCLA and California State University at Northridge (CSUN) among other schools came to Tijuana to say that since the higher education systems don't tell their history well or at all, they've had to begin to do it themselves. The Community Colleges are merely a funnel to channel us into menial labor."
"Sandino Gómez, also of the Brown Berets, spoke of how the War in Iraq falls heavier upon Chicano youths. "There are more military recruiters than guidance counselors in our area," he noted."
"Instituto de Educación Popular explained the difficult lives of the jornaleros – day laborers, from California to New York Island – who wait on street corners each morning for contractors to hire them in a pinch to do construction, or pick crops, or other manual labors. "The jornaleros wait under very boring conditions," "They have no food, no water, the police harass them. They have to put up with everything." She added, proudly, "I am the daughter of a jornalero."
"Representatives of the growing sector of the Other Campaign that struggles under the banner of " Other Loves" testified about the discrimination they face. "The lesbians are called gringadas and the gay men joto-maricones … Enough already with the discrimination!" A straight Chicano man read a letter from Angel Cruz, a Oaxacan on the Other Side, saying "I am a gay queer… and I am a Zapatista
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2199.html