Preferential governmental policies alone does not create wealth or affect its distribution. Education–knowing what to do with such an advantage–does. Or, knowing how to create wealth even in the absence of such an advantage.

Otherwise, how do you explain the many first-generation Asian people in America who came here with very little money, but after 40 years, are millionaires? They started out working in restaurants, dry cleaners, as cleaning people and other menial tasks–just like the Mexicans–except they worked their way up and out of that. Because, they were originally educated in their home country. They were taught _how_ to create wealth.

I suspect the Mexicans’ problem is that they send their money back to Mexico to support their families, instead of using it to create wealth in America. They come here without an education in the first place, so they don’t even know how to create wealth when the opportunity IS presented to them, anyway. They don’t bother to learn English unlike other immigrants, so they never get ahead in this predominantly English-speaking country.

In essence, they self-sabotage. No amount of preferential government policy or affirmative action is going to compensate for that kind of foolishness. They’re going to stay poor as long as they maintain that strategy.