A great story in the Los Angeles Times about a former Armenian Consul and a Beverly Hills lawyer who were arrested for providing letters that kept mostly criminals from being deported back to their native country. The two sold letters that said that in a nutshell that the native country would never take them back. They sold the letters for $35,000 each. {Waiting for the collective howl of the right. Bill O’Reilly is surely going to rail against this one. If he doesn’t, I’m sure that Sean Hannity or someone else will. Fox News is going to lead off with this story tonight, I bet. Where the heck is Lou Dobbs?} NOTHING.

Now, we should assess this situation from the stand point of a Mexican. What if this was a former Mexican Consul and a prominent East Los Angeles lawyer of Hispanic descent. Now, I hear them. The reason is because illegal immigration in America is a racist issue. There are illegal immigrants from every hemisphere on the globe living and working in the United States. I know this because I use to hang out at a bar in Redondo Beach where a group of Britons lived and several of them were here illegally, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were not knocking down there doors with automatic rifles.

That’s what is happening all over California and Arizona right now. It happened just today in San Bernardino. Students came in and described ICE units with weapons that looked like M16s and in full body armor kicking in someone’s door and looking for a suspect. I bet not one Armenian ever got pulled over and asked about his immigration status. It happens all the time to Mexicans who are here legally.

Sometimes we hear about Chinese people being smuggled into this country or even Africans. However, it is the people in our own hemisphere that we choose to hate the most. We want to starve them and deny them basic services because they are choking our system and destroying our way of life.

It is so racist that according to the western hemisphere travel initiative or WHTI, Canadians may enter the country with a Passport, Nexus or Fast card, or an enhanced driver’s license. Mexicans can only enter the United States with a passport and a visa. Or they may get a special visa card if they can prove that they only do business here. Apparently, the reason is because Canadians do not want to come here to live.

I wonder why? Could it be because they can make enough money to take care of their families in their home country? Or is it true that Canadians don’t come to live. I say it is not true. I say that we have many illegal immigrants here from European countries who are not being treated like criminals, are not being harassed because they look like an illegal, and can go where ever they please whenever they please. I say that we have many Asian illegal immigrants here, but they are considered productive and they assimilate very well into American culture.

So why the racism? It is simple. Americans have to have someone to blame for their misery and it is convenient now to blame those who come here from South of the border. Grow up America.

From the Department of Homeland Security:

• Over 791,000 people were deported in 2008.
• 693000 of those were Mexicans
• Only 61000 of those people were deported for criminal activity
• If you look at the other countries on this list, most people are deported for Criminal activity.