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Meddling Mexican Juan Hernandez spouts off in local paper

Meddling Mexican

NIGHTLINE - June 7, 2001 Mexican Juan Hernandez, a member of Fox's cabinet, admits that Mexico sees Mexicans in the United States as Mexicans first and Americans second--if at all. LISTEN He seems to agree with John McCain.

6/20/01

Juan Hernandez, Mexican Cabinet Member, and head of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad, has decided to enter the ongoing drivers license fiasco in Tennessee.

The Nashville based Tennessean newspaper printed a letter written by Hernandez that seeks to assure Tennesseans of the "law abiding" intent of the state's mass of "immigrants".

(Doesn't he know that they broke the law to get here, and continue to break the law daily?)

Here is the incredible text of Hernandez' letter to the editor. It appeared in the June 19th, 2001 daily.

"Have patience, Tennessee. Like generations of immigrants before them, Mexican immigrants came to Tennessee in search of a better life. There they found ways to send money home to feed their families - and believe me, they are grateful.

So grateful are the immigrants in fact, that they are eager to follow Tennessee's laws.

In a recent Mexican government survey of Mexicans in the United States, the chief concern of those polled was not the back-breaking labor they do each day, nor the poor housing conditions in which most of them live, nor the worries over whether the will be able to make ends meet and still send money back to their families.

The number 1 worry was their inability to acquire a driver's license. What immigrants want most of all is to play - and drive - buy the rules.

The long lines of immigrants applying for drivers licenses may be a hassle, but it is also a powerful testament to the strength of America's culture of law and order and an important reminder that newcomers want to follow the rules of that culture no matter what their immigration status.

Mexican immigrants are good, law abiding people. They have come for the same reason all immigrants come: the American dream.

A year from now when the kinks have been ironed out and other states have joined the handful already granting immigrants licenses, Tennessee will be proud to say it was among the first to recognize this important opportunity. You have given immigrants a chance to join the ranks of other hard-working Tennesseans who follow the rules of the road.

And at least from the perspective of the immigrants, that is a chance well worth the wait."

Signed,

Juan Hernandez
Mexico City, Mexico D.F. 11850

(Note: AmericanPatrol was unable to find this letter in the online version of the Tennessean.)