It's Not Illegal To Be Hispanic

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by Kathleen Bushman

Rove or his successor will undoubtedly continue to use a variety wedge issues in the next election, a conclusion I reached while observing the ebb and flow of hot topics in my various Yahoo groups and forums. While other wedge issues will surely be used as well, I feel certain that immigration and the suppression of the Hispanic vote will be a significant key to the Republican attempt at victory.

Anyone who looks Hispanic is often assumed to be illegal. However, the estimated Hispanic-American population of the United States as of July 1, 2006, is 44.3 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 15% of the nation's total population in 2006, and they are more likely to remain bilingual through the second and third generations than other immigrant groups.

In too many of my groups I hear so called liberals helping the Republican cause along by touting stats about Hispanic criminality - sometimes straight from designated hate or white supremacist groups. I thought those stats suspicious because it would only make sense that illegals would want to keep their heads down. There may be criminals who flow over the border with the drug traffic but it’s doubtful that they are desperately poor and they clearly do not come here to seek jobs. I was glad, when this video was brought to my attention, reinforcing my exisytiong belief that Illegal immigrants are NOT more likely to commit crime than others.

I understand that the flow of immigrants across the U.S. border has increased since the NAFTA agreement was initiated and I also understand the increasing frustration of the American working class - but I think that many Americans’ anger is misdirected. It is American agri-business subsidies that, along with NAFTA, that are starving the Mexican farmers off their land.

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