What if Mexico wasn't one of us?
Friday, May 14, 2004 at 3:18AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

"What if 12 Million Californians Vanished?" by Miriam Jordan, Wall Street Journal, 13 may, p. B1.


The article describes a Mexican feature film, a comedy that describes what a day in California would be like if all the Mexicans living there were suddenly to disappear. The lead actress says ìThe idea of the film was to make the invisible visible . . . [to] open peopleís eyes to everything we Latinos are giving.î


Latinos make up one third of Californiaís population, accounting for 57% of its construction workers, 58% of its cooks, and 53% of its janitors. Donít even get me started on the Los Angeles Dodgers!


I wonder if Sam Huntington will go see this film . . ..

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