Posted on 04/29/2010 11:03:16 AM PDT by AuntB
The government of Mexico’s response to the Arizona law is self-preservation. If the poverty stricken are not able to easily break into our country then the Mexican government will have to deal with them - and they can’t.
They have to export their poverty to us or the government will fail and the country will simply dissolve - most likely into a narco-anarchist state.
Hence their hypocritical stance on immigration law. They can’t allow anyone but the best and brightest in and at the same time they have to flush their poorest out.
Well done, VDH!!
On the matter of racial profiling: No one wishes to harass citizens by race or gender, but, again unfortunately, we already profile constantly. When I had top classics students, I quite bluntly explained to graduating seniors that those who were Mexican American and African American had very good chances of entering Ivy League or other top graduate schools from Fresno, those who were women and Asians so-so chances, and those who were white males with CSUF BAs very little chance, despite straight A's and top GRE scores. The students themselves knew all that better than I -- and, except the latter category, had packaged and self-profiled themselves for years in applying for grants, admissions, fellowships, and awards. I can remember being told by a dean in 1989 exactly the gender and racial profile of the person I was to hire before the search had even started, and not even to "waste my time" by interviewing a white male candidate. Again, the modern university works on the principle that faculty, staff, and students are constantly identified by racial and gender status. These were not minor matters, but questions that affected hundreds of lives for many decades to come.
Passports, even, as you check into hotels. In Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland. They want to carry NOTHING? And that is because?? They are breaking the law!
Makes me glad I'm not in academia: I snuck out with my PhD just under the wire, I think.
Cheers!
;’)
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