The ugly Mexican-American immigration debate

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Posted on: April 14th, 2008
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“In an episode of the television show “Seinfeld,” Jerry Seinfeld worries that his dentist has converted to Judaism so he can tell jokes about Jewish people. Someone asks Seinfeld, “And this offends you as a Jewish person?” No, he says, “it offends me as a comedian.”

As a Mexican-American, that’s how I feel when someone takes note of my support for comprehensive immigration reform, or my opposition to absurd “solutions” to the immigration problem, and concludes that I’m more Mexican than American.

Anyone who thinks there is no racism in this debate should read my e-mail.”*

*From: http://www.cnn.com
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