RWer Rich Lowry: Arizona doesn't like Mexicans

[Enrique]

on the Hugh Hewitt radio show yesterday, they were talking about the Calderon speech, and about Mexico issuing a travel warning to Mexicans to avoid travelling in Arizona, Lowry gloated that Mexico was playing into Arizona's hands because Arizona doesn't want Mexicans in Arizona.

Really? I thought Arizona didn't want illegal aliens there. Arizona doesn't want Mexicans travelling there? Arizona doesn't want Mexicans visiting family in Arizona, or visiting Sedona, or visiting the Grand Canyon? Why?

Arizona, is Rich Lowry speaking for you? Are you really saying to Mexico, fine, we don't want you travelling here anyway!

[SpiralHawk]

1. Those "Mexicans" come from a genetic lineage that has been on North America forever

-- at least 16,000 years or more, long before people started drawing puny little pen lines on bits of paper and claiming (based on the Bull of a Pope) that they 'own' this bit or that bit, and 'strangers' are unwelcome.

How long have the republicon bozos who are promoting this law been on North America?

[Gman]

2. No, Arizona doesn't really care what their citizenship status is...

Arizona doesn't like Mexicans, -American or otherwise.

[MineralMan]

3. I was born in Arizona, and my grandparents lived there through

my 20s. They lived in a small copper mining town about 50 miles from Phoenix. Back in the 1950s, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents' home. The anti-hispanic attitude of the whites in that town was palpable. It permeated everything there. And most of the people who were the target of this animosity were full citizens of the USA. Many were second-generation.

It was not aimed at illegal aliens. It was aimed at anyone with brown skin and "indio" genetics. There was no mistaking it if you lived in that town. Even then, I was embarrassed by my grandparents' attitudes, which were shared by all their neighbors.

Anti-hispanic prejudice is endemic in Arizona. They're almost institutionalized. If you look at the makeup of any city council or the state legislature, it's obvious that those of hispanic origins in that state are systematically denied any political power. And yet, the hispanic population...even the US citizen hispanic population is large in that state. They are not represented in anything resembling proportionality to their population in the state.

[pinboy3niner]

4. That's why conservatives are pushing a host of anti-Hispanic laws

The growth of that demographic--with increased political power--is seen by them as threatening. So they pursue all options in an attempt to stave it off or slow it down--even though some conservatives recognize the inevitably of change.

[IndianaJoe]

5. Methinks now many Mexicans don't like Rich Lowry n/t