Thread: Seems we've some allies in the Massachusetts Spanish Press

Collaborating with la Migra

by Adriana Recchia
La Planeta

It has been several weeks since I have been reading surprising commentaries appearing in the periodical El Mundo. I have said surprising because it is so unusual to read in Hispanic media the anti immigrant rhetoric of the sort that gladens the commentarists of Fox and "CNN. In the middle of the national denouncement over the atrocities the ICE commits daily in the raids, the commentarists apearing in El Mundo have to have taken sides with the leadership of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In the publication, Lucy Pineda, of the pro immigrant agency LUMA Latinos Unidos en Massachusetts, explains we should not be confronting the ICE because the immigration raids are looking after the security of the country, she affirms. For his part the journalist Maximo Torres does not believe that there are those who doubt the Immigration. Why don't they believe it [from Immigration when they say that their operatives are destined to clean the streets of criminals] he asks in El Mundo edition of the 11th ton 17th of September.(p. 2) And Julian Torres gets onto the theme "Who separates the Hispanic families. in the Opinion Section of the same issue.(p. 6) arriving at the conclusion that it is not the ICE nor the politics of George Bush that has divided Hispanic families, it is really only that the Latinos have abandoned them to come here. The writer finalizes his analysis accusing some non profit that say they are defending the "illegal immigrants..., they are using this for political benefit, provoking the raids that they are making themselves leaders to fight". Lou Dobbs should be proud of this man.

The case of these Latinos is a lamentable example of how the theory of the "criminalization" of the immigrants, a plan orchestrated by the George Bush Administration for the promotion of the hate against the undocumented. Today the the jails are full of these "criminals" who have the unique fault of having carried false documents so that they could work and sustain their families. Thanks to the racist actions of ICE millions of our brothers and sisters live terrorized, thousands have been deported and others have died in the sinister centers of detention that are growing like mushrooms all over the country.

With these positions Pineda has disqualified himself to be executive of an organization for immigrants. What undocumented would feel himself safe in this agency and without fear of being detained by la Migra as a "criminal"? To humanize the ICE at these times of elections, we are clear, is to carry the water of the Republican mill. Conscious or not, the reporters and journalists of El Mundo have contributed to the division of the immigrant movement. For this we need to denounce them.


Adriana Recchia is a journalist originally from Argentina living in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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I guess that the newspaper El Mundo has a Puerto Rican outlook which realizes that the illegal aliens are competing against them for jobs and public benefit programs.
RB

The case of these Latinos is a lamentable example of how the theory of the "criminalization" of the immigrants, a plan orchestrated by the George Bush Administration for the promotion of the hate against the undocumented. Today the the jails are full of these "criminals" who have the unique fault of having carried false documents so that they could work and sustain their families.

Oh quit gushing nonsense, Ms Recchia. Your "criminals" that your are trying to defend are guilty of two crimes: first, crossing the border without permission, and secondly of document fraud. Our laws don't really like that kind of stuff, and if you are in this country legally or illegally you have to respect that.

I doubt that the Argentines are allowing free migratrion of poor and under educated migrants from Bolivia and Paraguay.

The Argentinians would NEVER allow the Mexicans, Guat's, Salvadorans, or Hondurans do in ARgentina what they do here in the U.S. .....NEVER and certainly there would never be any "advocacy" groups to assist illegal aliens in ARgentina from those nations. Any person whose lived or is from South America knows this very well.....