“Some people just don’t like Mexicans — or anyone else from south of the border.”
“Where once the xenophobes could advocate forced sterilization and eugenics coupled with virtually shutting off legal immigration from “undesirable” countries, now they must be content with building walls, putting troops on the border, rounding up illegal aliens on the job and deporting them, passing local ordinances to signal their distaste for immigrants’ multi-family living arrangements, and doing whatever else they can to drive these people back where they came from.”
Linda Chavez, May 25, 2007.
In case you were not aware of her recent statements. “xenophobe” is a synonym for “racist.” I taught myself Spanish as an adult, have lived with very humble people on a ranch in Mexico, and understand the terms “Uchi,” “Cuaco,” and “Chucho.” I have eaten chile ancho roasted in the fields with Mexican farmers. But I think the Senate amnesty bill was wrong, and I am not a “xenophobe.”
Can't argue with that. Some don't.
But did Linda Chavez say this was a description of ALL who opposed Bush's immigration reform?
I have lived with black people in black neighborhoods and eaten fried chicken with them...that doesn't make my positions on race issues immune from criticism.