You missed my point, Luis. In that post, I was being personal. Judging by your posts, Luis, I don't see you personally as a either a racist or a violent criminal.
OTOH, I've seen enough death and destruction in my town to say with conviction that the current wave of illegal immigration is bringing too much crime with it.
I don't have any recent experience with south Florida, so I'm not going to comment on your situation. I deal pretty much in personal experience, not debate points, FRiend. I'm sick and tired of losing friends to this garbage and I'm going to do what I can to stop it.
Period.
Let's set something straight...illegal immigration is wrong, no one should be here who is not legally entitled to be here.
I was speaking of massive immigration in general, such as what the US saw with the Irish, the Italians, etc.
Generally speaking, there have been some real problems in FR making a distinction between legal and illegal immigration, and one of the most important things that need to be accomplished when it comes to debating immigration, is to separate one from the other.
Having said that, I can tell you with a great deal of certainty that massive immigration has always brought with it the problems that you now specifically attribute to illegal immigration; the Italian mass immigration that began in 1884 and ended in 1920 brought seven million people to our shores, most of them honest, hard-working family people, yet the "family" that we associate with the early years of the Italian migration into the US was headed by people named Capone, Luciano, and Gambino.
But it wasn't they who cemented Italian-Americans into the American dream, it was the hard-working, honest millions who truly impacted our society. It will be the hard-working, honest millions of Hispanics in this nation who will eventually come to the surface, and make us realize that the criminals and the hoodlums were a small minority of the whole people.
Have faith in America.