La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for February 04, 2015

Actually, surprisingly, the Republicans were somewhat smarter about it than that. Sen. Ernst, who has been vocally anti-immigrant and an advocate of English-only laws, didn’t even bring the matter up in her English-language response. The second panel is more accurate, as for the Spanish-language response the Republicans got a Latino Congressman, Rep. Curbelo, who is one of the few Republicans who have been public about actually wanting to work constructively on the issue. It remains to be seen whether he can convince his fellow lawmakers of the wisdom of constructive engagement.

I wonder what Lalo would think if the 12 million illegals were from northern Europe and were displacing legal Hispanics in the jobs they traditional had?

If he did not support them the way he supports the illegal Hispanics then he, by definition of the word raciest, is a raciest.

Wow, this is fun. I had no idea the facts bothered so many.

Yes it is true that the European(Spaniards are European) conquered and enslaved so many native Americans especially in Mexico,the Caribbean, Central and South America.

My family was on both sides of the issue. All my ancestors including my mother and father are from Caborca Sonora Mexico. They are a mixture of Basque, Catalan, Castillian, Portuguese and Indian.

In fact I was recently invited to the 6 de Abril Fiesta in Caborca because my grandfather was one of the defenders of the city during one of the perpetual wars there.

It was Spanish against Indians and Indian against Spaniards and Indians against Indians. That is one of the reason Benito Juarez died from a hart attack in office. He was able to reduce the Spanish killing of Indians but could not stop the different tribes(inducing his own) from fighting amongst them self.

Violence has always been part of life in Mexico. That is why my family left in the 30s for Ajo Arizona.

The culture killing remains but now it is drug based. Unfortunately much of the drug killing is moving this way and back to Europe.

So when you are attacking me you are either doing out of ignorance or racism because I am Mexican. Take you pick.

Can you describe US immigration policy in the late 19th century? You’re not the first to make the comparison between today and “something” at least 200 years old but nobody ever describes the actual laws in effect in the early years of the US. There is lots of enthusiasm but…

1. This is a comic strip, not a policy statement. 2.There is humor in double-speak, Republican or Democrat. 3. The underlying assumption that most Latinos and non-Latinos are monolingual is fallacious. Heck, you have to be minimally bilingual to get the joke.

“you sign an oath of allegiance, pass a few checks, you’re in.” Where did the US immigration “do checks”? There weren’t any databases or rapid communication with the rest of the world. The telegraph came along in the 1860’s but there were no international links until much later.

Besides the article you linking to making a whole host of factual misstatements (and just linking to other corners of the right-wing echo chamber), it smacks of the same racism that Reagan engaged in when vilifying “welfare queens.” Oh, and the comments section in that article is a literal hate-fest. Compared to that cesspool, the La Cucaracha forum is talking about puppies and rainbows. But hey, now we have even more insight into mdavis (as if we really needed it).