Privacy, confidentiality, anonymity, discretion, deceit, paranoia. Part 3
December 18, 2018
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com
- The Trump admin wants to use the upcoming census to identify undocumented immigrants.
- A gross breach of privacy you might say.
- Well, the US has a strong judiciary that has stopped the overreaching instincts of the other two branches of government several times already.
- And vice versa.
- I get stern looks from colleagues in the multicultural marketing industry every time I say this but I it is in our best interest to have reliable demographic facts instead of just guesstimates for the sake of “privacy” and misguided, if not a bit hypocritical, “compassion”.
- Having millions of undocumented immigrants living in fear and hiding is not good for anyone.
- If the Trump admin has its way it might get messy.
- All of us in the Hispanic community will need to circle the wagons and put up a fight.
- In politics, in the courts, in business, in the media.
- It will be a much needed day of reckoning for all involved on both sides of the fence (no pun intended).
- Transparency and the rule of law are almost synonyms.
- Pretty much one and the same.
- This status quo of looking the other way and keeping millions of undocumented immigrants living in limbo on a wait & see mode until further notice is plain foolish and even a bit cowardly, IMHO.
- Then again, I’m gonna wax a bit philosophical here, we could ask ourselves the following: imagine for a second that the rule of law applied in those Latin American countries that keep sending migrants north of the border, would their inhabitants be forced to emigrate from them in the first place?
- To be continued next week.
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