[ilbegone]

I called Boehner's office and made clear my belief that until I see business owners who hire illegal aliens going to jail it will be very clear to me that all the new rhetoric is just a game, that nothing will change.

I not sure if I was successful in conveying that various stereotypes of those termed "Latino" in whatever configuration of monolithic "identity" fantasy Boehner chooses to believe in (sleeping Mexican under a cactus, illiterate border hopper, future doctors and other professionals versus scumbag welfare opportunists, "indigenous", "just trying to feed the family", entirely law abiding or inveterate criminal, pious immigrant church goer or vicious gang banger praying to Santa Muerte, Puerto Rican or Tex-Mex, Legal citizen or illegal alien, brown racist bigots...) they are not accurate concerning the very broad array of individuals who just happen to have brown skin and Spanish last names.

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Just for interest:

Santa Muerte http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2013/05/v...-santa-muerte/

The article was originally printed in National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ultures-world/

The author is Alma Guillermoprieto, author of The Heart that bleeds and a massive amount of articles and other literature. From what I have read of her material I have a lot of respect for her.

Huffington post article on Santa Muerte http://www.huffingtonpost.com/r-andr...b_1421053.html

The late Octavio Paz once said that Mexicans have faith only in the national lottery and Guadalupe. With the statement of how empty the churches are in at least part of Mexico, could there now be a contest between Guadalupe and Santa Muerte such as there once was between La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Virgen de Los Remedios?

[Substitute "Mexican Indian" for "Spanish shepherd" and the origin stories of the Spanish (Extramadura) and Mexican (Tepayac) apparitions of Guadalupe are very much the same. "Guadalupe" is a garbled medieval Spanish pronunciation of an Arabic phrase something like "Wadi al Upe" or "quad al upi", which supposedly means something like "water by the rocks" or something similar]