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This debate is curious one and this post has been an informative one. However, I am stuck in the middle. I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a deeply hispanic neighborhood, where I was the minority (blond haired blue eyed, now graying though). Several resturants close to my house didn't even have an english speaking person in them, I had to point to an item on the menu for what I wanted (the seafood soup was unbelieveably good).

What I observed is that most of the people in my neighborhood were honorable, hard working, and dedicated to their families. They loved their adopted home (America) and they loved Mexico. But, they hated their corrupt government (a hundred times more corrupt then here) and knew that only poverty and despair awaits them in their country of birth. They escaped to America to provide a better life for themselves in spite loving their home country.

In spite of what other posters claim, they would not willing play host to terrorists anymore then the average American. They do not deserve to be flung back across the border by catapults. Borders do not need to mined, thus blowing up families trying to escape poverty. For most of us, it is just quirk of fate that we were born in America and a little compassionate conservatism is called for.

I truly do not know all the answers to this problem and believe that there is no easy solution. So, with every thing being said, even with the reasoned debate on this thread, I have seen no real solutions discussed or debated.

From the "graying" hair description...( though I myself perfer "salt and pepper", LOL) we're about the ame age...I'm 56,, and grew up in NYC..in the melting pot, as it were...at that time, and when we first learned about the US as a nation of immigrants, the key word, uses over and over again in our civics textbook, was "assimilation"...now, it doesn't exist...go ahead, pick up any currently used elementary, even HS history test, and try and find the word...and that's the problem...immigrants aren't assimilating...when voting instructions at the polls are available in 5 or more languages, then Houston, we've got a BIG problem..

How is this type of arguement ever relevant?

A CRIMINAL OFFENSE has been commited.

My sister makes a wonderful pineapple upsidedown cake and is a decent hardworking person as well. But if she BREAKS the LAW then she has to PAY the PRICE!

Besides that, What do you say to the people who patiently follow the path of LEGAL IMMIGRATION? Is it fair to those people?