Empathizing with the discrimination Mexican immigrants face in this country Jewish committess are banding together with Mexican groups to discuss common issues:

The American Jewish Committee co-sponsored the three-day workshop with Mexico’s Institute for Mexicans Abroad, which includes an advisory council established by the country’s Foreign Relations Ministry.

Workshops are boring! Why do we all have to talk about immigration? It’s not like it’s an American issue:

And immigration – an issue that has polarized the nation – took center stage.”The whole immigration debate is not a Latino issue; it is an American issue,” said Dina Siegel Vann, the director of the Latino and Latin America initiative at the American Jewish Committee.

Oh.

Ms. Siegel Vann grew up in Mexico City – and was part of the small but active Jewish community [Ed. Note: Daniel Mauser, represent!] of about 40,000 there.

“From a moral perspective, Jews feel that having successfully incorporated into the U.S., they now feel a responsibility to help other minorities,” she said.

Ms. Seigel Vann, the Brown Man thanks you sincerely. But may we offer a Plan B? Move to South Florida, L.A. or New York City. Jews and Mexicans run these places like no one’s business. Or like every business. Without these two groups, those places would cease to exist.

Jewish group bands with Latinos against discrimination [Dallas News]