I wonder how many of those Hispanic-named grads' families have been in the US legally for several generations, if not all the way back to 1849 when the US bought what is now the US Southwest.
I've chewed out an occasional conservative making the errant ASSumption that Hispanic family name equals illegal immigrant. VERY occasionally, as in not in the past year or two or three (= long enough ago that I do not remember when ... possibly even pre-Covid). And here Kali is making the same ASSumption ... probably without any DU-member calling out his/her ASSumption.
It amuses me that so many Proggies ASSume that Rs and other conservatives hate Hispanics. My first introduction to Mexican food was when my Dad delivered sacks of corn he had grown to a Mexican restaurant where it would be made into tortillas and other food items. I was age 5 or so at the time, and we took home some fresh tamales for dinner ... very tasty! California being California, quite a few of my school classmates were of Mexican (literally, not pejoratively) ancestry. I saw no point in asking how long their families had lived in the US, they were "just" classmates, normal. I was similarly incurious about the family histories of my black, indigenous, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Punjabi Indian classmates.
