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Mexican Cartoonist Patricio Ortiz affirmed today that he is protected by the statistics to place in his drawings Mexican immigrants as the winners of a battle to cross to the United States despite immigration agents and the border wall.

"I compare my histories with the Roadrunner, where there as a premise: the Coyote is the bad guy, the Roadrunner is the good one, and always wins. In my stories the bad guy is the immigration agent (the Border Patrol), the good guy is the Mexican and always wins, which the statistics show", he told Efe.

"If 600 thousand Mexicans cross each year he means that we are winning, at least that battle", added the sketcher, of 43 years of age.

The graphic humorist presents these days in Mexico the book "The complete enchilada" (Planet, 200, a collection of the comic strips that he has created during years, protraying immigrants.

Patricio, afrims, he explores the issue since he noticed himself that he appeared very little in them you throw comedians of his country, more centered in the details of the politicians.

"I felt and I continue feeling that this is an issue that is very little undertaken in the media for the magnitude, and ignored almost completely in cartoons, in the comic strip", said Ortiz.

In none of its histories, he clarified, he trivializes with immigration, a drama where he only portrays the positive aspects.

The recurrent characters are the "poor Mexican of low educational level, especially of rural origin" that tries to cross towards the United States.

The "bad guy" would be the "guide for illegal immigrants" (human smuggler) and the Border Patrol, that corresponds with "the representative of the Empire that impedes the countrymen to cross over there", he explained.

The conducts that he portrays are in some case based on the reality and in others, are from stories told to him by those who crossed years ago to the U.S. and remained there working as undocumented.

Ortiz admitted that "the reality is a lot more complex" that its ideal models and that the migratory phenomenon is changing, as happens in its comic strips, where more women and more people with education and of the city are starting to migrate.

Of the wall he says that it is "a symbol of stupidity" that represents "the fear the U.S. has to the unknown" and that it does not serve to impede the crossings of the undocumented but to froce them into more dangerous places.

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By mexican cartoonist Patricio Ortiz.

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