Latina Lista: Comprehensive Immigration Reform isn’t Just a Hispanic

“The whole immigration reform debate is becoming more and more thought of as a “Hispanic” thing.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

What is happening to Latino undocumented immigrants in the cities and towns tired of waiting for Congressional action is in many ways what happened to our black communities, and most recently, our Muslim-American communities when the majority took on a “crowd mentality” and saw no reason or compassion to think anything other than feeling threatened by a particular group of people — because some high-profile talkers said they should be.”

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