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...Swahili and any number of other tongues. We are free to speak these languages and express our diverse cultures because America’s 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...
...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 as it has been.” In a recent article, Huntington said Hispanic immigrants are characterized by a “lack of initiative, self-reliance, and ambition” and have made...
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...
...record, this land that Huntington calls America was inhabited before the Anglo-Protestants even landed on the East Coast. Huntington does not give enough thought to the fact that there are Hispanics who live in the Southwest, particularly Texas, whose ancestors never crossed any border—in fact, the artificial modern border crossed 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...
This argument, crystallized in his 1996 book Clash of Civilizations, has drawn the attention of top Bush administration officials. Huntington says he shared his observations with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell over lunch in Washington last month...