Mushroom
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i worked for a few years with a guy from Argentina......we used to kid him about showing us his green card....to work for the PO you are supposed to be a citizen.....so we used to get on him about not being legal....Jorge had a good sense of humor....
Way back when my wife got her Permanent Resident Card, she thought it was funny that they are not green at all, but tan.
But I being in the Marines had an ID card that was green, that I jokingly called my "Green Card".
You are taking this from a fringe group, that no more speaks for Hispanics then MOVE spoke for Blacks.
and that sums it up in a nutshell right there.....
And I wonder if Blanco even knows who or what MOVE is.
Foreigners often have little to no comprehension of what living in the US is really like. We are the most polyglot nation on the planet, where 99% are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. And for the most part, we do not care where those ancestors came from.
Most of us are literally a "Heinz 57" of heritages and ancestors. Indian (teepee type not the dot on the head type) is my strongest, followed by French, German, Norse, English and a few others. Most of us are such a blending that trying to determine a single ethnicity is almost impossible. And in the last half century this has accelerated even more as my generation often thinks nothing of marrying "outside of our race".
Other then in a few ghetto areas (in the technical sense not the pejorative one) like "Chinatown" will you find predominantly people in the US who are only of a single ethnicity.
For most of us, "Ethnicity" is mostly something we pull out on days like St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo. In other words, an excuse to drink and party.
As for "Mexicans wanting parts of the US to be part of Mexico", that is simple nonsense. I doubt that Blanco is even aware that the 2 biggest states he is talking about (Texas and California) openly revolted from Mexico and became part of the US by their own free will - even though their predominant population was Mexican!