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Like all the hispanderers in the GOP it only matters if your last name ends in -ez, -es, (or some other hispanic suffix) but if your last name ends in -ski, -icz, (or some other Eastern European suffix) you can go to hell.

Immigration, just so you know, is not about immigrants anymore - it's about hispanics.

Remember George Bush wanted to create a "new America". Perry et al have picked up the mantle...(Maybe Jorge could have simply said he wanted to "transform America" instead)

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster