BALDO

Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos’ comic strip about a Latino family with an emphasis on the eponymous teenager, ventured into the disputation about illegal immigrants during the last week in October. As you can see, the strips focused on Baldo’s young sister Gracie and her friend Nora. Without raising voices, the maneuver seems to me effective because it viewed the issue entirely in its human dimension. Our benighted legislators too often forget that people have to live under the laws they pass, and sometimes the results are not the intended ones.

The week ended with Gracie back home, confiding to her father that the kids at school have been taunting her with “illegal”accusations. He’s alarmed, even aghast, but he reassures her by saying: “Gracie, we have nothing to worry about. You’re safe here in our home. You, too, Nora.”

It’s a pat response. Too pat. And all of us know — as Cantu surely expects us to by offering so lame a resolution to the problem — that no one with a Latino name or complexion is safe at home. Or anywhere else anymore.

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You’re safe here in our home. You, too, Nora.”

[Dana Rose Crystal]

I noticed that--I was just searching for the resolution to the strip because I thought I missed it, but that was how it ended. I thought there was a follow up where the dad told Gracie she was NOT illegal. But I could not find it yet.