Mr. Chairman. I do not really have any problem with increasing the number of dollars that our country spends on the Border Patrol. It is really with the nature of this discussion. As America watches us. anyone would think that everyone with a surname of Gonzalez. or Rodriguez. or even Gutierrez across America simply came here to get welfare. simply came here to somehow benefit and not come here to work. as if you could go through the ne!ghborhoods. and the factories of the cities of Chicago. of Los Angeles. and New York and across this country and not see them working. The fact is we should have a discussion about immigrants to this country and just how it is that they contribute to this country. just how it is that they make America work and take the kind of jobs that every other immigrant group before the Latino community has come here has taken in order to work themselves up by the bootstraps. actually. Mr. Chairman.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that people with Latino surnames only come to America to get welfare.