Apr 27 2008
James’ Comment Spark International Incident
MEXICO CITY — A Mecklenburg County commissioner’s recent comments comparing illegal immigrants to prostitutes and drug dealers first inflamed the local Latino community, and now the anger has spilled into Mexico.
Mexican politicians and residents are calling Republican Bill James’ statements — printed Friday in one of Mexico City’s leading newspapers — an example of growing hostility against Latinos in the United States.
Our growing hostility? Are they kidding?? The hostility is coming from Mexico in the form of their government actively encouraging their citizens to illegally enter our country, gain employment, and then send their wages back to their own country. It comes in the form of Mexican drug dealers, at times with the cooperation of corrupt Mexican soldiers, attacking and killing our border guards. Quite frankly, what Mexico has been doing in most cases would have been considered an act of war in many parts around the world, but because of how overly generous the U.S. has been towards the nation and the stable relationship we’ve had with them for years we’ve been more than tolerant of it. The Mexican government is eventually going to bite off more than they can chew with their actions and rhetoric.
