[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

American entitlement teat was still fully ensconced within the brassiere of hard work.

Absolutely well said. You're a heck of a writer!

[familyop]

"Entitlement" is the word. Cut enough social programs, and illegal immigration won't be such a problem.

[devolve]

NO MEXICAN

LEFT BEHIND

[peyton randolph]

This is a democracy.

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The U.S. is not a democracy. We have a republican form of government.

[kingu]

While folks make a big deal about entitlements as it relates to illegal aliens, it only makes any practical difference to those who intend to emigrate here - most are here for money to send back home. Sometimes that's to build a home back in Mexico, othertimes it is to support their direct family or extended family.

Most desire to stay as far under the radar as they can. Just like any other thief.

They should be rounded up, deported, and for every five kicked out, let one legal immigrant come here and join the American dream. The United States should not be a job fair for the world - we've already sold plenty of our jobs away overseas; doing so domestically isn't just bad economic sense, it is horrible for our national identity as well.

A melting pot only works if people want to join in. Subcultures will always be part of this nation, but when the subculture becomes the dominate one, like it is for many illegal aliens, it reinforces the concept that they're just here for the money, and continues a costly divide.

[Razz Barry]

If you failed to provide, and your neighbors proved less than charitable, you paid the consequences.

The possibility of needing help from ones neighbors helped keep many people on the straight and narrow. No need to do what's right today, the government will provide. Provide with money stolen from better folks. I've asked some Latinos how they can afford to have so many children. "It free" they say.

[raybbr]

Some argue that there is a fundamental difference, one that goes beyond skin tone, in the Latin American immigrant versus the European immigrant. Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington argues, “The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves ... rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril.”

No. No. No, Mr. Hackett. You have it all wrong. It won't be two cultures for these people will be the "new Americans". The old Americans are to die off leaving this vast wealth to the "new Americans".

THE "NEW AMERICAN"

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.

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