COLUMN OF THE AMERICAS
A BIG BROTHER MIGRATION SOLUTION
OCTOBER 17, 2008
BY ROBERTO DR. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ
For perhaps at least the past generation, the so-called immigration debate has been code for scapegoating and getting rid of the "wetbacks" – which of course in this country is but another code word for Mexicans. Anybody brown, really. It could be called the hidden narrative, yet how hidden is it really? And yet, holding back the "brown hordes" is no longer the primary issue in regards to this debate. Make no mistake; hundreds of brown peoples are still dying in the inhospitable deserts, mountains and rivers along the U.S.-Mexico border. And the Department of Homeland Security's ICE agents are still running amok terrorizing Mexican & Central American communities. But the sad reality is that the mere existence of a "Homeland Security" apparatus tells us that even something bigger is amiss. Read column
Rodriguez, PhD, can be reached at: XColumn@gmail.com
Photo: Remembering the dead along the border, No More Deaths, in a memorial in Tucson, remembered Desconocido, hanged near Cowlic on the Tohono O'odham Nation, near the Arizona and Mexico border. Photo Brenda Norrell
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