One thing that DOES NOT HELP the whole immigration issue, is the tendency to refer to all Latin American immigrants as “Mexicans”. I’m a gringo living in southern Mexico (and loving it, by the way) and I see the columns of people from all of central America trooping through to reach the promise land. People from Honduras, El Salvador, Columbia, Belize..the list goes on. But when they emerge into the U.S., they are suddenly all “Mexicans”. Amazing! And this is just the Latin American situation. And, while we’re so busy building fences to keep “them” out, a lot of folks from other countries are slipping in the side door. Discussing immigration is fine, but we have gotten to a point to where someone uses the word “immigrant”, most people think “Mexican”. Not correct, and not fair. People from Mexico are PART of the delima, not THE delima. Ok, now let’s all take a deep breath, and have a wonderful day!
