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"Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish." (WISH-TV8)

This is what illegal immigration is all about - colonization. These people are not here to become Americans - and as such cannot be analogized to any prior group of immigrants to the U.S. They live in the U.S. only physically; psychologically, they still live in Mexico - watching Mexican TV on satellite, watching Mexican soccer leagues rather than the NFL dubbed in Spanish, watching videocassette Mexican movies instead of ours dubbed in Spanish.

Get the sticker!

You bet, and many that have cable television are paying to have about 15 percent of their channels in Spanish Korean etc.

When you call the TV cable people and ask them *why* you are paying for stations in foreign languages, they will tell you, "we are trying to appeal to everyone". But we do get a kick out of some of the stations where they are constantly shooting and killing each other every 5 or 6 seconds. Some of them appear as comedies, but sadly they are not.

Speaking of how immigrants can take over a place, German used to be "the" legal language in Indiana. Indianapolis had once had it's own "dialect" - See James Whitcomb Riley - but it was routed by the rough speech of the Deutschlanders. They rolled through the area at Warp Speed, took over every American business, ran all the American newspapers out of town, even demanded that elections be done "their way"!.

When my Grandparents were still kids, if you had to go to a court in most parts of the state and you spoke only English, you'd need an interpreter.

WWI and WWII devastated the German community and they became fully assimilated. Today people like Senator Lugar are well respected and they use English quite well, all things considered. He's a real credit to his race, eh?

Now, these Hispanics? Would it help if we conducted a war against Mexico or something? Certainly they are at least as smart as the Germans were and they'd get going on that assimilation part right quick. Maybe just a small war - that'd do it - run a couple of humvees over to Juarez and demand their surrender.

This is what illegal immigration is all about - colonization. These people are not here to become Americans - and as such cannot be analogized to any prior group of immigrants to the U.S

I am a strong believer in requiring all imigrants to learn English, but the Mexicans are hardly the first to retain their native language as long as possible.

There was a lot of German settlement in central Texas in the 1840s, when Texas was an independant Republic. As late as the 1960s, after 120 years, most of the older generation could not speak English.
The Cajuns in South Louisiana spoke "Cajun French" for 200 years, until forced to learn English after WW II.

The point is that no group has willingly given up their native language. They have all been coerced into speaking English and we are gonna have to wake up and coerce Hispanic immigrants to do the same.

So9

The threat they pose is not that they fail to assimilate or that they assimilate slowly.

The threat is:

they can provide a beachhead for the importation of not thousands, not tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands but *millions* upon *millions* upon *millions* of illegal aliens.

The threat is not:

that they can create daisy chains of alleged relatives for immigration under family reunification

that they can house and otherwise find support for illegal aliens who may want to kill Americans

that they retain loyalty to a foreign government or culture

Because all of these reasons could be applied to many immigrant groups who have settled in America.

To repeat:

The threat is in the *numbers*.