Why does everyone assume all hispanics are mexican illegals?

Question

When a hispanic person walks down the street,why do many people assume that he is illegal?Even more so,why assume that all hispanics are mexicans?

In this day and time,people still have their biased opinions.Why think things about people you don't know?

In the days of slavery, a free black man could not walk down the street without automatically being accused of being a runaway slave.Have people changed so little ?I'm sure every legal hispanic out there has felt the same.

***In the days of slavery---past tense.

I don't know too many ppl who take the time to ask all those questions,renegade,when seeing a person on the street.

No,I agree slavery was a terrible,awful thing that does not compare with illegals.However I just used the analogy.I mean,when people see a white guy on the street,they don't think(or say)"look at that cracker".So why do SOME people assume the term illegal for every hispanic?That'd be like saying "redneck"for every white person.

Oh,and Joe:Not everyone is like that,I know.But it takes more than one to deny it for anyone to believe.And some that deny it are lying.

Did Anyone read what I wrote earlier?I wrote that not EVERYONE thinks this way.Look up and read again.^ ^ ^ ^ Again,I know this question is not for everyone.Just a figure of speech.

Answer 1

Not everyone assumes that, i don't assume that hispanics are automatically illegal and also mexican, but i do know a lot of illegal mexicans. Many hispanic friends of mine have strangely moved over night. A lot of people see all hispanics as illegal mexicans (you can tell that girl who answered above "flower girl" does). But i also agree with flower girl. there are too many illegals, this country is having an employment problem as it is. But also illegals are helping us out. Americans don't want to scrub toilets for minimum wage (i've seen people quit mcdonalds because of that) but illegals who made 6$s a day in their original country will take that job without hesitation for 5$ an hour. So whos jobs ARE they taking?

That's all i got. You can send comments about my answer to [e-mail]

Stay frosty Everyone

Answer 2

Well, you're definitely making the case for stopping illegal immigration, there. I've known many mexicans, mexican-americans, and they're good people. BUT: This whole problem with regulating the influx and ascertaining the legality of immigrants has served to destablilize a lot of communities,
in some areas there are so many that local citizen's groups have formed and taken issue with their city governments on the issue.


Immigration's all good and fine, but bum's rush ILLEGAL immigration gives the whole deal a bad rap, destroys any pretense at oversight, and sets up the newcomers for failure by
over-saturating existing labor markets with non-english-speaking
johnny-come-latelies with NO education, few or no skills, and hence not much of a future outside a life of crime or hiding in the shadows. Knocking the fences down isn't going to save third world countries from themselves, but it WILL result in millions more of their former citizens rolling into the United States.
I support a reform of immigration policies, to see to it that
the effect is lessened.

I once lived in a heavily hispanic area. I got a pretty cool welcome as a caucasian, let me tell you. All I did was work and live in the area, and all of a sudden I had people FOLLOWING me. Kinda spooky.

Mexico's a different country from the United States, hence the spelling, and all. They have all sorts of issues and problems in Mexico including dead police officers that we just really don't want imported wholesale into the United States. I don't know how many people you think our country can just digest and absorb, and at what rate, but I think the whole thing's gone 'over the top'
and from what I read it doesn't seem like I'm alone in that view.
I don't know, maybe all the newspapers and people I chat with and stuff are all lying to me, maybe it's all hunky-dory and california's jails and prisons aren't bursting at the seams with people from somewhere else, may-be...not sure, but from my standpoint there appears to be A Problem, something worthy of invoking city/county/state on. If the federal government can't patrol the border, and prevent illegal passage across it, then it's going to be up to the states to do it. Time will tell, time will tell....

Answer 3

Wasn't it under Reagan in "86 that blanket amnesty was given? That solution has since emboldened 20 million invaders...coming over from Mexico...Hispanic at any rate. These days the illegals outnumber both those that received "86 amnesty and their legal families.
If all legal Hispanics DID get outraged and spoke out, they would be ostracized from the community which is today unfortunately Mostly criminal.
And this childish attempt to equate slaves Forced in with Invaders is ludicrous! But then so is the premise of your child like question!
On the street I assume every human is a predator...Don't you? Now refining that with what you have experienced with people, that brief thought doesn't cross your mind!
You are either an out and out liar or a Saint.

Answer 4

first off, only an ignorant person would think that a black person is a runaway slave since slavery has been abolished a loooong time ago. Second, with the illegal migration of thousands and thousands of mexicans and latinos, it is only normal for our conscience to assume they may be illegal. It is only wrong when you begin to treat them like second class citizens or as if they may have the ebola virus. Their is a reason why they are here in america which is what everyone wants....a better life,liberty and the persuit of happiness...

Answer 5

Do you see the irony in your question? You assume EVERYONE thinks that all Hispanics are illegal Mexicans.... You are asking a question about people generalizing other people, by doing the very thing you are asking about. Perhaps you should put a little more thought into your next question?

Perhaps people generalize, because the majority of people where they are from, fit that stereotype? I try not to generalize, because that usually makes you automatically wrong. Just like you are wrong, because not everyone does that.

Answer 6

Not everyone does. I am more likely to consider the possibility under some circumstance now than I had been, because I didn't realize how high a percentage of our recent (last 20 years) immigrants were illegal immigrants. I certainly don't consider them all Mexican, however.

In fact, a few years ago I was rear ended by a guy when driving with my kids. He had no license with him and this unusual insurance document (at least he did have one) in a woman's name. He said they shared the car. Since the entire front end of his car accordioned up in his face whereas mine had barely a scratch, I never ended up making a claim. I felt badly for him.

I just figured he was poor, it never once occurred to me he might have been here illegally. Now it does.

Answer 7

Sadly, it is because there are so many illegals that are of latin decent, and because people are too afraid to offend to ask to see a green card, so they assume. It is kind of like being between a rock and a hard place. My father is a third born American Mexican, and English is the only language that he knows, but because of his heritage, he has worked for less, and most illegals believe that he is illegal, and attempt to talk to him in Spanish about things he knows nothing about. Many Americans have assumed that he is an illegal because he looks completely Mexican, it is only when he opens his mouth to speak that people realize he is not an illegal, or an immigrant. Sadly, illegals have created a disgust among the American people, because they have had the aid of our government in hiding themselves, Americans are forced to make their own judgement calls, and in truth most Americans know very little about the Latin people, other than they make good music. So, they clump them all together, and make a judgement from there. Just like the whites did with the indians, and the blacks, and like most Mexicans do to all whites, indians, and blacks. I've always heard that the largest groups of racist crimes are commited by those communities left to fend for themselves, with no help. And, as a white boy with indian and Mexican blood in me, and living in the ghettos of Texas, I have learned that in most cases people turn on their own, when the struggles get too overwhelming. There is more Latin on Latin crime in Texas, than black on black. My grandmother lives in Chicago, and she says it is the same there. This hurts me, especially since my mother's family goes all the way back to the indians of America. But, my mother tells me this is the natural process of change, and if you study history, you will see that all countries go through such tribulations. America is so young in comparison to other countries, and it is well on the way to becoming like just like all the other countries immigrants, and illegals say they come to America to escape.
Sad reality, huh?

Answer 8

I assume nothing, I ask them if they speak english, if they do I continue the conversation in my chosen language, if not I suggest to them they need to learn english, I ask if they are Mexican or American, if they respond by saying Mexican, then I ask if they are In the United States legally. The conversation usually ends very abruptly right there.
Hey, theres no harm in asking, I just want to know who & what I am dealing with. This IS my country. And I have been asked the very same questions myself, I did not become offended.

Answer 9

Are you seriously trying to equate the heinous actions blacks were subjected to if they were mistaken for a runaway slave with people assuming Hispanics to be illegal? (And by the way, you fail to see that the problem is not mistaking them for being a runaway slave, it is the fact that a HUMAN BEING was a slave) When was the last time you saw a Hispanic lynched?
What a despicable attempt to equate slavery to immigration

Answer 10

It would take only one person to say they don't assume all Hispanics are illegals to stop your theory dead in it's tracks. This has happened already a number of times in the responses you have received. Need I say more?