Challenges Face Mexico and Mexican Americans

Re “Addition to the Melting Pot Requires a New Recipe Book,” Commentary, April 2: Jorge Castaneda writes that “Mexicans ... have a major challenge,” and that is to regard “our compatriots in the U.S. as part of a Mexican nation in the cultural and ethnic sense.” How about this for a major challenge: Stop having babies that you can’t feed and have no jobs for! America is not the dumping ground for the Third World.

Mike Burns

Bakersfield

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When Mexico has reversed its immigration to the U.S., as Ireland has reversed its immigration, then a comparison between Irish and Mexican immigration will be valid. Until then, give me a break.

Matthew V. McLaughlin

Santa Barbara