There is something I think you are alluding to, and seeing as I am feeling foolhardy, I'm going to go there.
People are noticing that the culture of the US is undergoing radical change, there seem to be huge numbers of immigrants entering the country at a rate far higher than anyone remembers, and in fact their observation is correct.
Whereas immigrants once numbered in the low hundreds of thousands per year, now legal and illegals combined add up to well over a million a year, and the effect is noticeable.
People see that there is no effort to control the border, and they are reacting.
But there is another issue.
Despite the addition of over a million people each year, we still have the lowest unemployment rate in the world. This means we are absorbing these people. This means that there is a place for them.
Part of that certainly is owing to our economy, which relative to the world economy is fairly dynamic. But there is something else going on.
We were told as long as I can remember that the world was overpopulated, and as a part of that argument abortion was introduced. We abort about a million a year, and we admit legally and illegally about a million a year.
As I sometimes say rather irreverently, Democrats are committing suicide and replacing themselves with Mexicans, which I consider to be a good bargain. But in more seriousness, what is happening is that people who don't believe in life are destroying their young, and their young are being replaced by people who do believe in life.
The same thing is happening in Europe, where birth rates have fallen below the replacement rate. They are dying away and replacing themselves with Algerians.
In our case, half of the country does believe in life, and is raising up another generation. The other half does not, and so the house next door that their children would have occupied, has a family of Mexicans living in it. Culturally western, culturally christian. Family oriented. By comparison to our European cousins, we are blessed.
If you wipe out a million births per year, you are guaranteeing that your culture is going to change as people arrive to replace the people who were never born.
So, no, I am not one of those who believes that Mexicans are destroying this country, far from it. They are good people by and large, and they are filling a gap that we ourselves have created... or rather, that the death cult has created.
But if the economy requires them, then their entry should be legalized. I don't want to read about another truckload of dead immigrants abandoned in the desert. And, pardon me if I get annoyed at boatloads of immigrants from outside this hemisphere using the same un-patrolled routes to cross into the country.
Do you support the FTAA?
You either: (1) obviously don't live in a border state, or (2) live in a border state, but in some kind of cloistered area well away from the barbarian invasion. Ask anyone in southern California, say Santa Ana, whether your utopian description of "the family next door" bears any resemblance to their own experience.
"People are noticing that the culture of the US is undergoing radical change, there seem to be huge numbers of immigrants entering the country at a rate far higher than anyone remembers,..."
And precisely the problem. Such numbers preclude any meaningful assimilation, and do nothing to prevent the headlong rush to grab every freebie available in America to which they are certainly not entitled.
I believe in strongly defending American sovereignty and in the preservation of American culture, customs, traditions and language. These are the values of loyal American conservatives. They are not the values of FR's pro-illegal alien contingent.
Which is why I have no use for them. None.