MEXICAN INTELLECTUALS TAKE AIM AT DONALD TRUMP

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>A group of 67 prominent intellectuals, scientists, artists and award-winning authors from Mexico and the rest of Ibero-America have signed a statement blasting Republican pre-candidate Donald Trump’s “hate speech,” which they say “recalls historical campaigns against other ethnic groups that led to millions of deaths.”

The statement says that Trump’s verbal assaults on Mexican immigrants are a crass appeal to “xenophobia, sexism and political intolerance” and are “not based on tested facts.”

The group notes that Trump’s disdain isn’t limited to Hispanic immigrants, but he “also exhibits a dangerous attitude towards his opponents.” The group further excoriates the celebrity presidential hopeful for making sexist comments about female interviewers, and expelling “prominent Hispanic reporter” Jorge Ramos from a press conference for asking “an uncomfortable question.”

Trump’s promise to deport 11 million undocumented Mexican immigrants and build a border wall along the southern frontier would be “catastrophic for states such as California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, where Mexicans carry out most manual work,” the statement reads.

The combined work of Mexican immigrants in California alone generates $70 billion a year, the scholars’ statement asserts. “Without Mexican workers, the economy of the state, followed swiftly by the rest of the country, would go to ruin,” the undersigned posit.

>The statement, released today by Enrique Krauze and Carmelo Mesa-Lago, just days before Trump is scheduled to host Saturday Night Live and amid growing calls for NBC to revoke his invitation to do so, ends with an impassioned plea for U.S. citizens to reject Trump’s candidacy and boycott “his absurdities.”