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...founders, too, were immigrants, and understood the terms of oppression that caused them to flee their own native countries. But recent literature by Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard’s Weatherhead University Professor, has caught much of the Harvard community off-guard by disregarding this fundamental truth. Huntington??s critique of Latin American (particularly Mexican) immigration to the United States comes after a long history of anti-immigrant rhetoric on his part. However, his recent writings are most disturbing due to their lack of substantial evidence and thinly-veiled racism against non-Anglo-Protestants in America...
...those at Harvard, and especially Latinos, are very much disturbed by the ignorant stereotypes that are being perpetuated through Huntington??s “academic” writings. Latino leaders at Harvard as well as organizations such as Concilio Latino, RAZA, Fuerza, Latinas Unidas, the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Assocation and Native Americans at Harvard College have expressed their discontent with Huntington??s writings and have begun collaborating to organize in order to educate the community. According to Huntington, rising immigration rates from Mexico would mean “the end of American society...
Harvard academics, professors and students have cited many faults in Huntington??s claims. From his assertion that the Mexico-America border is easily crossed to his claims that the Spanish language and bilingualism inhibit integration, Huntington elaborates on archaic and racist notions of immigration. A simple look at the border between the United States and Mexico will show that the border has been highly militarized. Hundreds of people have died trying to cross into the United States, killed by border patrol officers and the extremely dangerous terrain and weather characteristic of the borderlands. Huntington has written that immigrants...
...them. They speak Spanish and embrace their full Hispanic culture, but they are not immigrants because their families have lived in the same cities in Texas for the past 500 years. Very few Anglo-Protestant can say that much or claim residence in the United States for that long. Huntington??s literature has some valid claims; as a professor, he has indeed contributed to the scholarship on immigration. But his recent writings are not only offensive—they’re inaccurate...
...even since he left the public sector, Huntington??s analysis has dominated foreign policy discussions...