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Recently,
in symbolic fashion, spectators of Mexican ancestry in Pasadena’s Rose
Bowl did not merely cheer on the Mexican national soccer team in a game
against the US national team — such nostalgia would be natural and
understandable for recent immigrants — but went much further and also
jeered American players and, indeed, references to the United States.
Which was the home team?
Was America to be appreciated for accepting poor aliens, or resented
for not granting them amnesty? Is the idea of the United States to be
conveniently booed or opportunistically thanked — depending on whether
you are watching a soccer match or, for example, entering a Los Angeles
emergency room with a life-threatening injury?
This otherwise insignificant but Orwellian incident reminds us that
illegal immigration in the 21st century is becoming an illiberal
enterprise. [VDH
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Hanson: "In the old immigration narrative
of the 1960s and 1970s, affluent, profit-minded white American
employers often exploited cheap workers from Mexico. But that matrix
has been largely superseded. So-called whites are no longer a majority
in California, where large Asian and African-American populations often
object to illegal arrivals from Mexico who cut in front of the
legal-immigration line, tax social services, and raise costs to the
detriment of American citizens." |
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