Things are rough all over

Even as we excoriate Governor Schwarzenegger for immigrant-baiting and his support for the xenophobic Minutemen militia, the people of Mexico are having some problems with their own president, Vicente Fox.

It seems that Fox has managed to hit two faces with one turd by saying that Mexican workers in the United States "do jobs even black people wouldn't want to do." (The original draft of the previous sentence had the word "denigrated" in it, but I thought that if I couldn't avoid that sort of off-color etymological pun, it would be a black day indeed.)

El comentario "racista" de Fox

(goleech) "(los mexicanos en Estados Unidos) están haciendo trabajos que ni siquiera los negros quieren hacer allá"
La lamentable declaración del Presidente Fox es resultado del tenso ambiente político en torno al tema migratorio y la relación México-Estados Unidos. No, no es justificación, ni mucho menos.
La aprobación de la medida racista/xenofóbica Real ID, la aparición del grupo caza inmigrantes Minuteman y los comentarios estúpidos/xenofóbicos del migrante austriaco Arnold "Gobernator" Schwarzenegger, las advertencias realizadas por el Departamento de Estado y los comentarios del embajador en México, Tony Garza, pesaron en la calentura del comentario del Presidente Fox.
Creo que la inocencia y la "buena fe" del hombre volvió a sobresalir del estadista. Políticamente incorrecto a todas luces, el comentario debilita aún más la imagen de Fox en el extranjero luego del caso AMLO. Pero así como los medios estadounidenses remarcan el comentaro racista de Fox con tanta atención, también deberían de poner la misma (o más) atención a los comentarios de sus gobernantes y grupos xenofóbicos.

For monolingual gringos, a relatively wacky automated translation (which nonetheless allows one to get the gist of the story) can be had at the following link, courtesy of Google.

I wanted to point out the extent to which the group in question (undocumented immigrants, especially Mexicans, in California) are getting it from all sides — both from xenophobes in the US as well as classist elites back in their home country.

No one is standing up for them, despite the economic imperatives that bring them across swift rivers and scorching deserts to a country that hardly welcomes them, despite the significant good they do in turn for the economy of their adopted homeland — and I think that makes it much more shameful that Schwarzenegger is using ignorant fear and pointless resentment of these profoundly disadvantaged people to score political points.

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Things are rough all over

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