Oct. 2004
HISPANIC MAGAZINE:
What events, experiences and people in your life formed your knowledge of Hispanics and feelings toward them?
GEORGE W. BUSH:
I was raised in Texas. And Texas is a land that has a lot of Mexican Americans. My brother married a Mexican national, and I have gotten to know her and come to respect her, respect her culture and respect her heart. One of the most amazing experiences in my life was to watch a woman named Paula Rendón, who came up from Mexico to work in our house. She came to Houston in 1959. She was a woman looking for a way to make some wages to support her family back in Mexico.
She loved me. She chewed me out. She tried to shape me up. And I have grown to love her like a second mom. But what I watched was this fantastic lady raise three kids in Houston, Texas ... and those kids started going to college, and I saw the pride in Paula to see her grandkids go to college for the first time, the first generation of her family to have gone to college. What I saw there was the great American dream take place.
The thing that struck me of the Hispanics in Texas was one, the strong value system, and second, the deep desire to have their children educated. When you look at my immigration policy, I recognize people are coming to America to work.
http://www.hispaniconline.com/magazine/2004/oct/Features/bush.html
Thanks for the info!
Yep, the Mexican transporting weed hidden between candy in his semi yesterday in Minnesota was workin' pretty hard.