[popdonnelly]

I hate it when Mexicans reduce all immigration issues to an ethnic question. Do they think we’re stupid, ignorant racists?

[P-Marlowe]

I hate it when Mexicans reduce all immigration issues to an ethnic question. Do they think we’re stupid, ignorant racists?

They do think we are stupid.

And we are.

[weegee]

Mexican immigrants don’t like illegal immigrants from Guatemala. Figure that one out.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

" Do they think we’re stupid, ignorant racists?"

Uh, yes, as a matter of fact they do.

[muawiyah]

Listening to Mexicans talk about Americans it seems to me they think all Americans are Jews, and they don't like the Jews.

[Pelayo]

In all fairness there are many Americans who don't like Mexicans for cultural reasons. Many feel that Mexican immigration will somehow degrade American culture. They probably want a return to the immigration quotas of the early last century, and for the same reason those quotas were originally established; to preserve America's unique culture, language, and identity; which are threatened by immigration legal and illegal.

I can marshal no sympathy for their arguments because I'm still looking for American culture. And, given the history of American immigration policy, I feel the legalist argument is problematic at best.

The economic and defense arguments make more sense, but both often suffer from being combined with the sentiments of the cultural Identitarians (Identitarianism, I should point out, is historically a leftist idea).

[okie01]

I hate it when Mexicans reduce all immigration issues to an ethnic question. Do they think we’re stupid, ignorant racists?

It's not Mexicans who are asking it, necessarily. Mostly, it's liberals.

The Mexicans I know are violently opposed to this amnesty bill. Why? Because they are Americans!

[kevkrom]

I hate it when Mexicans reduce all immigration issues to an ethnic question. Do they think we’re stupid, ignorant racists?

Not really, but they know if they play that card, they'll get what they want due to shouting down enough people who will be afraid of being labeled "stupid, ignorant racists".