Thursday, May 04, 2006

 

May 1st

Nobody can deny the fact that the United States of America has been (and still is) a country build basically by immigrants. Since the Mayflower, non-americans arrival hasn't stopped and it's thanks to their contribution of good effort and good will (independently of their legal status) that that country has grown up to be what they've got as a country right now.
Even nowadays part of their population, regardless they've been born in America, still identify themselves as "foreigners" referring their parent's or grandparent's origin (from all around the world) who came mainly after the 2nd world war.
These are the reasons why, when I read about this law and noticed Bush's subtle change of position, I thought it was some kind of strange joke to raise Bush's popularity among the hispanic community which is the majority of the immigrants.
Now, with this boicot and some companies support I hope it becomes a call to that law's promoters' conscience to stop following xenophobic-pseudo-nationalist shadows while they recall where did they ancestors came from, why did they do it and recognize that the immigrants' community, legal or not, fulfills a similar role and enriches the locar culture... besides they could avoid falling into the same mistake by trying to condemn everyone for sins of a few...

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