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But then they immigrate to France because they simply haven't got what it takes to make it in their own country. Much like the immigrants who come to this country. The USA is much easier to live in. The middle class, wealthy, educated, successful and business people don't emigrate from their homelands....only the "less than".....do.

Yeah, immigrants and their kids don't got what it takes:

Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Miguel A. Estrada immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group and the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group.

Mr. Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, New York in 1983. He received a juris doctor degree magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Mr. Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1990 until 1992, Mr. Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. In those capacities, Mr. Estrada represented the government in numerous jury trials and in many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Estrada practiced law in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Alberto R. Gonzales was born in San Antonio, Texas. His parents, Pablo and Maria Gonzales, first met as migrant workers. They settled in Houston after Alberto was born and raised a family that would eventually number eight children. Mr. Gonzales worked in construction, and later was employed in a rice mill, but there were no luxuries for this large family. Mr. Gonzales drank heavily and the house was often filled with the sound of violent quarrels, but Gonzales's mother instilled deep religious values in her children and encouraged them to do well in school.

while your using a couple of people who are or were born of immigrants from a certain area as an example, all is well. however, i would ask you why the entire region south of our border cant seem to progress on any level at all with any reasonable time limit? you can always find a big pearl in a sea of pearls, but compared to other areas pearls, are they really big?

now on to your using legal people as examples. this is my opinion and mine alone, i would not call any of these people honroable off the bat, not until i knew what they actually stood for. imo, the main reason we find ourselves so deluded on islam and other issues of importance is the complete abrogation of the legal system to do its job in the spirit it was intended to be done in.

Yeah, immigrants and their kids don't got what it takes:

Say that to the victims of the thousands of immigant felons Cuba dumped on the USA when Castro emptied his prisons -- into Florida.

Anecdotal evidence is always such a clincher.

Immigrants SHOULD make it here with all the government giveaways -- welfare, ~~affirmative action~~ positive discrimination, free education, scholarships, grants, etc.

Immigrants who DON'T make it also exist. Why don't they make it? Oh yeah, i forgot, it's OUR fault -- racism.

Eventually the doors have to close -- even for a while. That's just common sense. Glorifying immigrant hard word and contributions is just swell....but they are part of why we worship at the altar of racial/ethnic/religious "diversity" -- we have decided that our own roots, our own American-both aren't worth it anymore.

Last year Cesar Chavez's birthday replaced Good Friday at a bay area college for that Good Friday holiday.

Lunar new year/Chinese new year replaced Lincoln/Washington birthdays. Same bay area.

MY anecdotal offering.

My opinion here. Just my opinion.