A Chicana questions: Is dwelling on Mexican-heritage tensions fair? – Nation’s immigration debate rooted in racist history, says woman who counsels workers.
Tagged: latinaPosted on: November 12th, 2007
Cristina Tzintzún admits to being torn about commenting on tensions between Mexican-heritage citizens and Mexican immigrants who are in the country illegally.
It’s not that Tzintzún, a Mexican American who counsels immigrants who have been cheated out of their wages, denies there is friction. Instead, she said, making too much of the issue unfairly holds people of Mexican heritage to a higher standard of tolerance — a standard that fails to acknowledge the larger historical context of immigration in America.”*
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