Mexican consul: Mexicans have "issues that make us not look very good"

Posted Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:39 pm

The new Mexican consul general for Dallas, Juan Carlos Cue-Vega, thinks Mexicans need an image makeover (link). He says:

"Frankly, we have spoken about the issues that make us not look very good, like celebrations using guns, littering, [being] noisy in the neighborhoods, leaving the kids at home while going to work. These are social and cultural things that we need to change." ... The vast majority of Mexican immigrants are hard workers lured here by jobs, he says, but they don't always think about the responsibilities and behavioral changes that U.S. residency involves. "We have to educate our people ... to respect the law."

Apparently Felipe Calderon shares his concerns. The consul is touring the local community centers making his case.

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Comments

George (not verified)

Sat, 01/23/2010 - 21:48

Oh really, respect the law? What a laugh as that really means respecting the laws that they believe to be legitimate. What about teaching "their people" about respecting our immigration laws and national policies? This they will not do!

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Sun, 01/24/2010 - 17:29

Look at it like this, its 1940 and you are a jew and the nazi just wants you to keep quit for now but the plan down the road is mass murder that is what this little Brown Nazi from mexico city wants for you to stay in line for the camp system. Sad to say most of you think that is a racists statement that is what the jews of 1940 would have said and we all know what happen or do we? But I will be the jew of 1943 in the warsaw ghetto fighting back against the nazi hispanic, you can just walk into the camps like good little jews. The day is coming when laws will disappear and the hispanic third world population will take what you have by force with the help of cops and government. This little monkey Juan carlos cue-vega is a known drug dealer check out this monkey.