Why is it that when someone..

I as well as others who have compassion for a people who want to try to make better lives for themselves are often told to "GO BACK HOME TO MEXICO!" Most of you who don't side with us assume we are Mexican not even considering that if we WERE Hispanic we could come from one of MANY different countries. To me that just shows how White America thinks. You only think about yourselves & your own personal interests & what benefits you. You assume that's how all others think too. That is why you assume we are Mexican. Why is it so difficult to understand that there are people in the world who care about others of a different race, others with their own personal struggles regardless of their skin color or the language they speak? Why must we be "MEXICAN" (white translation = illegal) just because we understand why Latin Americans want to come here & because we defend them being here?

Right on- Pamela! Whenever I have posted a question that sounds pro-immigration, everyone assumes I am Latina! In reality, I'm whiter than white bread! It's just I lived in L.A. for a long time, and I saw how we whites exploit illegals... Then suddenly, it's a problem after years of that exploitation! I mean, thousands of nannies, raising rich white kids in L.A., are illegals! Half of construction is done by illegals- and it's still expensive to build there! Oh well. there's no convincing ignorant people.