[WatchingInAmazement]

Though this says as much, "After demanding that we educate their surplus citizens, give those citizens food stamps, deliver their babies, provide them with doctors and hospital beds and police their neighborhoods, the Mexican government also expects us to help preserve their loyalty to Mexico."

And why? This is the one thing I can't grasp. Their government treats them horribly, exports them like any good commodity. And yet, so many scream, "Mother Mexico!", "go back to Europe, Gringo!" , and wave the Mexican Flag. On our soil. How can they be so loyal to such monsters? It's like a battered wife syndrome. And when they're treated well here, they want MORE. Always more. It's the same amazement as I watch suicide bombers. What insanity propels them?

[HungarianGypsy]

Yet, I have a neighbor who came here nine years ago (I assume legally. we have only known him two years), speaks a type of Spanglish and has asked if I would like to teach he and his wife English (his grandkids speak English well. they would be much better at it than I would with my high school Spanish). He keeps his home immaculate and has told my children that he really likes America.