Saturday, December 03, 2005

If it's so great, then why don't you go back?

With my adventure into what The Oregonian calls "Little Mexico" (but don't let Kevin Mannix here that, he'll be offended) I noticed a lot of "Mexican pride"



This is laughable because all these immigrants, legal or illegal, have already shown what they think of Mexico... they left. Voting with your feet is a powerful statement and many of these immigrants left behind families, friends, and neighbors. But obviously they thought that America was in some way better and it was worth it to leave that stuff behind.

If you want to argue that you are Mexican, that Mexican culture is better and that the country of Mexico is somehow better then I'm going to ask you to prove it: move to Mexico!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Woodburn is a carbon copy of Tijuanna! Why do these people flee their mess and come here to re-create the same mess?
Would people fleeing Communism come here and preach the virtues of Communism?
In fact I overheard a Russian immigrant giving HELL to a Union guy telling him that people like him are why he fled Russia during the cold war days, He said go to China and you will no longer think the way you do.

Anonymous said...

One picture I hope you post is all the stores with big metal bars in front. This USED to be a safe, small town. What are they barricading? Oh yeah thats the way, again, it is in Mexico.
These poor SHEEPople

Daniel said...

Tony, you know who my candidate is. And I was furious with Mannix when this issue first came up years ago. I still am. There are public officials who are not afraid to say it like it is. Case in point: Robert Vasquez who said "I have an American flag in my office, not that Mexican chicken and worm or whatever it is."