Well, that's exactly my point. People are getting all up in his business, claiming that he hates Hispanics, when, in fact, he was simply saying that he wants local people who are currently out of work to be given the opportunity to work at these reconstruction jobs without being lowballed by illegal immigrants.

And they're doing that by modifying what "Mexican" means. It's a cheap trick and it makes every side look bad.

He could have saved himself somewhat by saying "illegal immigrants", but I'm sure that there's some illegal immigrant anti-defamation league out there somwhere. But that's beside the point. At least that group would be arguing something that he said.

And the point of all of that is that if he were a real politician, he would have made sure to say that in a positive light by asking how to make sure that locals got those jobs. And I like the fact that he's in a position of not being a politician, but a just trying to make his city work.