Thank you all for your time.

Henry

By: Henry Guzman Villalobos(Aztec/Yaqui/Chinese Native American Indian)

Sources:Dr. Siu-Leung Lee, PhD, Chinese Community and many other sources,

Your perspective of the Mexican migrants is very simplistic. For one, while you’re right that many Mexican are mestizos with white Spanish heritage, many American Indians in the United States have mixed ancestry as well. Just as a good number of Mexicans may have visible European features, so do many American Indians north of the border. Additionally, a good third of the Mexican population is estimated to be almost pure indigenous with hardly any Caucasian admixture. Numerically speaking, there’s a lot more of them than there are American Indians in the entire United States, including both full and mixed blood populations.

As far as languages and accents go, Mexicans do not speak with “Spanish” accents. As recently as 1820, up to 60% of the Mexican population still spoke an indigenous language. Their descendants, forced to give up their ancestral tongues, speak dialects of Spanish that are heavily peppered with indigenous vocabulary and speech patterns. A large number of Mexican migrants today don’t speak any Spanish at all, coming from the impoverished indigenous ethnic groups such as the Zapotec, Mixtec, and Maya. It might be easy for a police officer to recognize the sound of Spanish, but can the average, untrained English-speaker really tell the difference between any number of American Indian languages that he or she is not very familiar with?

There are many more Maya among the Guatemalan and Honduran migrant populations, too.

JAN BREWER, CAN ALWAYS GO BACK TO EUROPE IF SHE DOES NOT LIKE ARIZONA, AND SHE COULD GIVE ARIZONA BACK TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS.