Caring America

Americans care about their fellow man. Look at the American response to the Indonesian tsunami, the gulf coast hurricanes, the Pakistan earthquake, and any other natural or man-made disaster you can recall.

Americans are compassionate to everyone - everyone, that is, but Mexicans. What is it that drives this never ending animosity. Is it because we once fought Mexico in a war? The Marine Corps still sings about taking a boy's military school in Mexico City, which they call the "Halls of Montezuma". We fought a long, bloody war with Japan, now they are a close ally. We fought a similarly long, bitter war with England, now our very closest friends.

Why do we coddle "Native Americans" endlessly? Because we stole this land from them?

Well, we stole a lot of land from Mexico, too. Land we now call Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern California, etc. Why aren't Mexicans, like Indians, credited with being here first?

You may have lived your entire life on the dole - a welfare recipient from birth. You may have contributed nothing to mankind. But if a natural disaster places you in harms way and you refuse to flee to high ground, someone should risk their own life saving you. You are a "victim" and are entitled to continue receiving the handout you have enjoyed all your life.

If you are an unemployed Mexican father surrounded by hungry children in a home built of shipping crates and you slip across the border to spend a day in the hot sun picking chiles for an American farmer, you are not a caring father willing to sacrifice for his family. You are an illegal, a criminal deserving only to be arrested and transported out of the country.

How about the single mother of several children, who gets pregnant again by her live-in boyfriend so she can draw yet one more check from ADC? We reward her with our sympathy as well as our dollars.

But if you are a pregnant Mexican teenager in labor, who enters a U.S. hospital, wanting only for your baby to receive the medical care it could not receive at home, you are not a victim... you, too, are an illegal, a criminal, and deserve only to be sent packing back to Mexico.

I could write on this subject endlessy because fresh examples of America's prejudice against Mexicans appear every day.

But, sadly, I would be drowned out by the constant rantings of the media screaming for an impenetrable wall across our southern border!

The next time you hear some media elite raving about America's generosity and compassion, just add these four little words... "unless you're a Mexican."