What is the Real Fear: Illegal Immigration or the Changing Face of America?
This is a tale of two babies. Each was the first baby born in 2007 in their new hometowns, and of course profiled in their local newspapers. One was born in the county of Dallas, Texas. His name is Gerardo. Gerardo Vasquez Jr (Source: The Dallas Morning News) The other was born in Woodstock, Illinois. Her name is Maria Crystal. Where each bundle of joy should have enjoyed their entrance into the world with wishes from readers for a great future, each has already received their first experience with what can only be termed as hate mail. From Dallas to Woodstock, readers reacted with everything from assuming each child was born of illegal immigrants (Gerardo’s parents are naturalized citizens); to being disgusted that neither of the mothers spoke English to claims that because of her parentage Maria was not an “American” baby. All of these readers who reacted with such racist assumptions obviously believe all the erroneous rhetoric being spread by people who are afraid of what these two
