What do English-speaking soccer superstar David Beckham and
working-class Mexican immigrants have in common? Carey says they both make
America a better place
LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "I think we
should welcome all peaceful people to our country," says Drew Carey in a
new Reason.tv video examining the contentious immigration debate. "They get
to pursue the 'American Dream' and we get to benefit from all the wonderful
things that immigrants bring to our country - like good old fashioned
soccer. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me."
While workers from Mexico draw the ire and fiery rhetoric of
anti-immigration forces, Carey points out that there was no outrage or
concern when English-speaking soccer star David Beckham brought his family
and curling free kicks to America.
"Americans, especially, LA Galaxy fans were very excited and greeted
David Beckham with open arms when he came here to play in Los Angeles, even
though he took the roster spot away from some poor, hard-working American
kid," Carey says in the Reason.tv video. "So I guess we're very welcoming
when it comes to rich, famous Brits. And we love our Beatles. But are we as
welcoming when it comes to people from other countries?"
"You can't get through a day of news without some politician or pundit
complaining that the greatest security threat to the United States is the
influx of Spanish speakers from across the border with Mexico," says Nick
Gillespie, editor of Reason.tv and Reason.com. "This anti-immigrant panic
and the worries that the country is being taken over by Spanish-speakers
isn't grounded in reality. Statistics show that about 80 percent of
third-generation Latinos in the United States speak English as their
dominant language -- and exactly 0 percent speak Spanish as their dominant
language. For over 200 years, immigrants have been assimilating and making
this country better and they're still doing that today."
Full Video Online
The Reason.tv Drew Carey video, Immigration: The Beckham Factor, is
online at: http://reason.tv/video/show/62.html.
An archive of Drew Carey's Reason.tv videos, including features on
medical marijuana, school choice, poker bans, America's middle class, and
eminent domain, is online at: http://reason.tv/featuredvids/.
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