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I deeply resent the assertion that this country belongs to whites and anyone else is not a real American, no matter how long they have been here. I don't have a single ancestor who wasn't here by the Civil War, and yet I am not a real American to some here (many who cannot say the same) because my skin is not white.

I have greater faith in the superiority of American culture then Mr. Buchanan. I believe that the immigrants coming here are and will assimulate, just like they always have. This is not the first time immigration had supposedly "doomed" our country.

I'm not claiming that non-whites aren't real Americans. I am vigorously stating that America is facing an influx of non-whites that it won't be able to assimilate. And if every non-white nation on earth has the right to decide that it wants to retain a certain racial makeup or balance, should that be denied to majoriy-white nations?

I always thought that the citizens of a nation had the right to decide who joins them through immigration to become fellow citizens. This shouldn't be decided by a hole in a fence, or corrupt politicians and business leaders.

"This is not the first time immigration had supposedly "doomed" our country."

It is the first time that it has been virtually unchecked with regard to health and economic risks though. It used to be that you had to have something to offer and be free of disease and parasites at the very least to be allowed to immigrate here. You also couldn't be a criminal. It was a matter of protecting the public and economic health of our country, as well as preserving the security of the nation. Now, we're too d*mned concerned about "offending" someone to even enforce our own laws. Now, not only can practically anyone with the means (legal or illegal) get in, but we feel it necessary to reward them by giving them a free ride at OUR expense, as well as caving to the pressures of the radical fringe leftist groups who are hellbent on conferring to illegals all the rights and privileges of citizenship while at the same time making a mockery of the country to which they address their demands.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to preserve our culture and protect it from being diluted to the lowest common denominator. It isn't about race. We've always been racially mixed. It is more about common values of the dominant culture....shared by all the races that are part of it. It is also about common language. Immigrants were once expected to learn the language; in fact, were required to do so to attain citizenship. Now we're supposed to print our ballots in every language on the d*mn*d planet to accommodate people that don't even have the legal right to vote. What is wrong with this picture?

But these immigrants won't assimilate. The reason is simple: earlier immigrants were coerced into assimilating, there was no welfare state to attract malingerers (and so, we attracted harder-working immigrants than we now do, who were a net positive to the economy), and no bilingual education and allied social programs to erect and maintain ethnic ghettoes in perpetuity. As Milton Friedman famously observed, You cannot have open borders and a welfare state.