<p>What annoys me about articles such as this is the startling lack of knowledge on the part of the author, or maybe it’s just plain laziness. Specifically, as Zoosermom has pointed out on past posts, much of the undocumented immigrant population are in fact native Americans, Amerindians, Aztec descendants, the aboriginal population…however you define them; they are in the main a marginalized group in Mexican (and in Latin American in general) society. Again as Zoosermom said before, many such folks have a limited ability to speak Spanish, let alone English. If they can’t get a break speaking the native dialect in a place like Quintana Roo/Cancun, how do we expect them to get a decent foot’s hold here in the U.S.?</p>
<p>I read a news report about an Indian reservation in the Southwest U.S. that straddles the Mexican border (although officially, there are no “reservations” in Mexico, I am told). While life on most U.S. reservations is not great, the Americans’ counterparts on the other side of the border had it much, much harder. The level of education, health etc. in the Mexican part of the Indian community was quite dismal and inferior to their American bretheren. Same culture and ethnic population but the border made a tremendous difference.</p>