By RON MEXICO
Staff Writer
McALLEN, TX - This will be brief, 'cause I'm late for breakfast and breakfast is - what? - 60 miles away. Ah loves mah country-fried steak with grits and bacon and biscuits and muh black coffee. Yesireeee. It's what makes me a gooooooood Amurican. Ha ha.
Anyway, I heard this from a woman I hadn't heard anything about for years: "Mexican-Americans are not going to take this lying down." Who, you ask from under your bedsheets, as the motel manager runs up and down the hallway screaming "fire!" and the next thing you know you're out there in the cold, naked and looking like some damned fool. The woman was Linda Ronstadt, a Tucson native, and she was speaking at a news conference on a lawsuit planned against the State of Arizona by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Immigration Law Center.
It's something of a, well, unfolding story, isn't it? And, yeah, those of you who say it isn't, well, go ahead and stand up and sing about that fear you wear so openly. Whoa! Howdy! Absolutely, Whoa, son, whoa! Hey, cowhand, grab holda dat thar cayuse! Whoa! Whoa, Trigger!
It's Friday, somewhere at the end of the first quarter of the year. Synchronize your watches. You don't want to miss the next speaker, the next tune, the next insanity flying in via our comments feature. Hey, now, someone bring my wheels around. I'm late, and one simply does not keep a pretty woman waiting...
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