[AreaMan]

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[archy]

Hey Travis- ping for you. This appears related to your current project.

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[AreaMan]

I did a search for this and did not find it already posted.

I hope this piece inspires some good debate and not just a stream of epithets.

My parents immigrated to this country legally after years of waiting in Spain, what chumps we were, we could have taken a flight to Mexico and walked across the border.

[ought-six]

The author echoes my perceptions and concerns quite succinctly. We are, indeed, in mortal danger of being conquered by a third-world toilet of a nation, all because of treasonous politicians and the destructive cancer of political correctness.

[wjcsux]

Yesterday.

[KarlInOhio]

A mere fifteen years later in April 1836, following the fall of the Alamo a month earlier, a Texas army at the Battle of San Jacinto defeated the Mexican army, thus ending a brief war. On October 22, Gen. Sam Houston was sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Under the terms of surrender, Gen. Santa Ana, to save his skin, turned over most of the Southwest as well. That's how we ended up with Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.

I think the author is confusing the Texas War of Independence with the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.

[South40]

It is a war. And we are being invaded from the south.

[wjcsux]

Today

[Regulator]

Given the birthrate of Mexicans in America, it would not take long for them to acquire so much political power that it would alter our system dramatically

That's the idea. And the reason people here illegally should be deported. Period.

Political power in the U.S. is based on votes. So...just get enough of your people into the country, keep them unassimilated by keeping their language, customs, and loyalties, and pretty soon...bango. You own the joint.

All it takes is a weak country run by spineless politicos who worry only about marketing themselves to the "electorate". The Mexican leadership has sized up American "leaders" and pretty much come to the conclusion that they can made to sit up and bark. Or whimper, to be more precise.

[norton]

"To put it bluntly, Mexico has hit upon a plan to solve its own Third World poverty by reacquiring the land Santa Ana gave away."

Problem with this 'solution' is that an part of the US that mexico might acquire would be turned INTO a poverty ridden part of the third world within a decade.

[Neil E. Wright]

BUMP for a read tomorrow

[Mr Spock]

I don't know if you gents are discussing the article but here are my two cents on it.

I don't like these types of articles because they are baseless and they only promote hate and prejudice. Lets look at the following point the author made:

"When former-Governor Gray Davis attempted to give California to its illegal immigrant population, the voters tossed him out and voted in Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger. "

This is a ridiculous statement. The voters of California voted out Gray Davis because his spending drove them into a huge budget deficit not because he was "giving away the state". If people want to point the finger at someone point it at the citizens who elected Gray Davis and at the citizens who didn't vote at all. If you don't vote, you shouldn't complain. One could argue that Gray Davis's social programs drove up the budget but social programs are typical of democrats and California. Democrats are just doing what they normally do.

Also, the author mentions that Mexico is "the enemy to the south." All the terrorist to date have entered the U.S. through Canada. Unless i'm missing something, shouldn't we be more cautious of the Canadian border being that it's the choice of entry for terrorists?