“We Don’t Cook Beans Like That in My Country”
One of the more troubling aspects of allowing illegal immigrants promoting a separate and distinct culture into the U.S. is that they will, despite efforts to make them legal and somehow "equal" to existing American citizens or to still classify them as "undocumented workers," most likely be regarded with disdain and relegated to inferiority for future generations to come.
Inferiority of illegal immigrants has long been perceived because of their overwhelming numbers working at lower skill jobs, such as food service, landscaping, and construction - jobs that by themselves are honorable and worthwhile, but upon which the immigrant's illegal status and poor skill sets casts a glaring deficiency. A person illegally in the United States shows a lack of genuineness on their part and this combined with no real effort by the U.S. government to arrest and deport illegal immigrants adds further to the disdain with which they are perceived. Getting away with a crime is almost as egregious as the crime itself.
Further, the poor social skills exhibited by Latinos illegally crossing the U.S. border is particularly insincere: disinterest in learning English, sending much of their wages back to their home countries, promoting the "Latino" image, and generally carrying on the Hispanic culture for better or worse to the exclusion of others. The work that is done by illegals can only suffer under this insincerity towards their new communities. For example, not knowing fluent English means a translator has to be used which tends to isolate the immigrant's job so that they "work in the back." Mix ups in work tasks are inevitable even with a translator - English deficient workers don't know what the customer wants.
A similar but unjustifiable outlook occurred in 16th century America towards African blacks when they were considered inferior in and of themselves and therefore enslaved and disenfranchised. However, the modern version of immigrants regarded as inferior has nothing to do with the color of their skin, which has little to do with anything, but everything to do with the insincere actions of the Latino illegal immigrant community. Despite the tensions between blacks and whites continuing on past slavery's end, suffrage, and racial equal rights, black people have no true fault to carry on with them to the next generation - they were innocent. Illegal immigrants, especially of Hispanic origin, by their chosen actions and willful inaction, are guilty.
The popular focus on Hispanic illegal immigrants should not eclipse the disregard that other immigrant races have towards U.S. immigration laws, their numbers estimated at 25% of illegals with Latinos making up the rest, but the numbers can be persuasive: If the Latino population is estimated at 43 million as of July 1, 2005, and the number of illegals at 7-20 million, this would yield a low of 14% and a high of 54% of Latinos that are in the U.S. illegally. These are significant percentages already without delving deeper to calculate the percentage of the Mexican race who are illegally in the U.S.
By these statistics breed the vilification of all Latinos when their ranks swell with law violators and those interested in promoting Mexican culture to the detriment of their newfound host communities. The difference between guests and invaders is very distinct, even with so called "legal" immigrants who did nothing to gain their citizenship except for being born within the borders of the United States by an illegal immigrant at U.S. taxpayers expense.
A guest arrives at a host's home through invitation and is held to a higher standard of courtesy. An invader breaks the door down, sits down at the dinner table and says, "We don't cook beans like that in my country." After many more like-mannered invaders, and many door replacements, the host eventually doesn't want to hear about the new bean recipe or have anything to do with those who eat it.



