Texas Teacher Suspended for 'Go Back to Mexico' Comment

[Honeycombe8]

99. I live in TX near where that school district is. There is no anti-Mexican bigotry here...

there is a resentment of certain things caused by the huge influx of illegal immigrants in the state. But I think the Mexican culture is generally well thought of as a hard working, family oriented culture.

But as I say, there are natural resentments about certain things caused by the unique problems associated with a large influx of people from another country (could be any country), who come illegally, and don't want to integrate and assimilate with the country they say they want to adopt as their own. A lot of the sex offenders are from Mexico, since they didn't go through a background check, as well as quite a lot of theft rings (some of them make their living this way, rather than get paid peanuts slaving in the hot sun all day). That's not the same as being bigoted against an entire ethnicity because of their ethnicity. It's based on behavior and personal experiences.

I didn't understand it, until I moved here. I'm from south La., where there were almost no hispanics at the time, except citizens who'd been here for decades or a century.

Many of my co-workers are hispanic who have relatives from Mexico or maybe came from Mexico years ago. They are bilingual. No one is bigoted against them, that I know of.